I thought of Naked Gun 2 and Half during the hilarious pandemonium at the hospital scenes.

It's funny you mention that. I'm teaching a screenwriting class and this week we're covering dialogue. We were talking about heightened vs realistic dialogue today, the pros and cons of both. A student brought up Midnight Mass and we chatted about the speechifying.

He’s saying, “Tom, are you attempting to use Reverse Psychology on me?” basically. Tom is going out of his way to NOT mention Shiv as a candidate, and by doing so, he’s trying to make Logan think of Shiv on his own. Logan, of course, sees right through the charade. 

In Logan speak he means reverse psychology, so Tom saying he likes Roman immediately made Logan realise he was of course going to be pushing Shiv while pretending to consider someone else.

I think he’s asking whether Tom is trying to do reverse psychology on him?

Re: reverse banjo — I think that Tom’s play for Shiv was to push everyone BUT Shiv so it’s not obvious that the person he wants to push is Shiv (Tom being Tom, he completely fucked that up). I think that’s what Logan’s line is acknowledging.

Kendall has never seen Bojack — no way. He just knows the show has “heat” on Twitter (big ups to Twitter for being considered so damn relevant on this show!). Kendall doesn’t care about things, he cares about the status things confer.

Holy shit, you’re right!! I mean, Green’s first one isn’t as good as IT pt 1 was, but this does seem like a comparable (and equally baffling) downgrade in quality.

I thought of The Simpsons too! When the mob is just aimlessly running around the hospital... eesh.

After seeing the movie tonight I went back to the review of Halloween 2018 because I remembered you had a really brilliant comment about why the original was such a masterpiece, which I still totally agree with.

Man, and I thought the Legend of Zelda timeline was complicated.

Yup, he’s consistently said that he doesn’t like Joe, which makes his performance all the more impressive.

I didn’t want a happy ending and don’t think she’s necessarily GOOD but wished she could’ve at least extricated herself from Olivia, but alas, the ep is all about the futility of pattern breaking.

I also think Paula’s insistence for Kai to commit the robbery may have been born more from spite at Olivia and her insufferable family than an actual concern for Kai and his situation. Kai ultimately was manipulated by Paula, who took advantage of a naïve and desperate kid to fulfill her own revenge fantasy.

Christ, this was depressing.

So that’s why he’s called Winnie the Pooh.

My feeling from Paula is that she’s a not-rich person struggling to fit into a rich person’s world.  I’m not exactly sure how she met and befriended Olivia (my guess is that they’re dorm roomies) but stepping into Olivia’s world has her trying to emulate Olivia’s behavior in some ways.  She’s definitely rude to…

Your assessment of Paula is the same as mine.  Almost like her whole persona is just putting on airs

For anyone whining about how this show is overhyped, could you please point me to any other debut show that came out this year that’s even close to being as good? It’s not the greatest thing in the world, I get it. But for what it’s attempting, it does it very solidly. This year has been absolutely terrible for tv,…

I think the best part of tonight’s episode was the brother. Completely without any agency at that age, trying to tune out the world through his ear pods or smartphone. When he finally has his fill of his sister and her friend, he tears off to the beach and sees the whale.