Ooh, look at Mr Fancy, huffing his *own* shit.

I know a lot of people (or at least Vox’s piece on Russian Doll) are talking about how tight and focused the show was, but the last several episodes made a lot of the stuff in earlier ones feel like “filler.” There were so many early narrative and thematic threads left dangling—and so many other pieces I’m not sure we…

You want gritty reality? Here’s how it SHOULD read through:

You’re an anonymous teacher coming to the door of the home of a murdered student, with his belongings. The drunken mom invites youin and immediately says to you,“I have the soul of a whore.”

When I think Big Number I think like “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” from Hello, Dolly. Like everybody on stage, cast of thousands.

Maybe it was just the David Milch writing (could definitely hear his voice in the dialogue this time out) but I liked this episode quite a bit. Last week’s felt like wheel spinning, but I enjoyed this one even with little forward movement on the central mystery.

The movie also had other lines.

Yes, the scorching hot topic of Katherine Heigl and a movie she made a decade ago.

Also it’s just inherently more interesting than “that opinion everyone has? It’s the correct one!”

Maybe people become confused because it takes incredibly sophisticated powers of reasoning to recognize that someone is expressing an opinion within an obviously subjective topic.

Horseshit it’s “as good as he can send.”

The right text to send is the honest one: “Hey, I have the kids this weekend and want to spend time with them. Do you mind if I bring them, or would they be out of place?”

I trot out the "my place is not kid friendly, we leave our medications out in open bowls and a tin of razor blades in the bathroom drawer" all the time.  Make it about my terrible running of my life, but the end result is the same, no kids.

I mean, yeah you have to tip, but your answer is confusing. What does the water bill have to do with how much I tip? Or the presence of a wine cellar? Those are bills that SHOULD be paid with some of the markup on the bottle itself. Tips are for the staff, not for the manager to pay overhead.

I can just picture both pairs finding out what was said and writing little condolence cards to each other.

Super into this but how dare you disparage Sue and Mel to praise Nick and Amy.

CO-SIGNED 100%.

He went crazy after sitting through an entire stand up set from Big Jay Oakerson

Westworld is what happens when you’re worried that the answers to your mysteries will underwhelm your audience when you reveal them, so you spend as long as possible acting like they’re jaw-dropping and having characters talk about how jaw-dropping they are in hopes of just conditioning the audience into being…

Westworld isn’t good, but it’s an expensive HBO genre show, so I think a lot of people feel inclined to watch it.

This is going to be REALLY controversial, but I’m gonna name Wes Anderson. He has an impeccable eye and sense of design and style, but at the expense of anything approaching warmth or spontaneity, because it is all so designed and arch and calls attention to itself, and more and more he has become wrapped up in…