That seems a bit harsh given you haven't seen the film (and the review even highlights a scene where Madoff targets Elie Wiesel), but when I realize I haven't read a single review (or interview with a cast member) that _doesnt_ mention the word "Jew" or "Jewish", even when it isn't strictly relevant, I have to agree…

I like this pulpy mess, but you are being kinda dicky in these reviews. Maybe you're off context? Joe Blank is blank because he's figuring himself out. The Marshall is otherworldly because we dont know the rules of this world, and it gives rise to bizarre evils we've never seen before. It's not a flawless series, but…

Your own reviewer mentions The Staircase constantly in the recaps.

Only Bakshi apologists like Wizard, or people who it scared the pants off when they were 5. Heavy Traffic and Coonskin blow it out of the fucking water.

A teen during this period, I never got the pumpkins, and always found their fanbase almost excruciatingly conservative. For all the ballyhoo of this being a modern record that pushed the envelope (by Corgon and his followers), I think the true colors of the fanbase were revealed when they were "confused" and angry by…

I actually just re-read Eightball's first several issues, and it's amazing how differently it reads from when I first found an anthology ("Lout Rampage") of these same issues buried in my high school's library in the early nineties (what high school librarian would think that was a good idea?). Back then, reading…

Yeah, it seemed it was a lie, and I think was included for two reasons:
1. To show how much Nay trusted Nick; she only asks him once about the hotel and its clear from his response and her reaction she believed him (The real Nay was on set during the filming)
2. To show how much Nick was screwing over his friendships…

Man, I forgot about Minus Man. I was laid off in the post-9/11 downturn, and had a tv that only got two channels, one being IFC, which played Minus Man every day for those months I had weird jobs to make ends meet. Watching a movie about a nice guy who has clearly become a serial killer and also struggling to do odd…

Nay confronted nick about the hotel issue.
Your review indicates the opposite.

I don't think it was grinding at all.
Does that make me old?

All the upvotes.
Amazing that he references Chinatown, Sunset Boulevard, and Citizen Kane… I wonder what other little-seen, seminal indie flicks he nods to…. it's high time these old forgotten films literally nobody remembers get some respect!

I thought this was one of the most vacant ends to the one of the most uninspired dramas of this decade.

Yeah yeah yeah.
Crass version.

"You know what's interesting? Your point of view is interesting, because you are an interviewer and this is an interesting film. Did you know that?"

Weird. I think you're way off base. This is the last show that would appeal to me, but I caught this episode by chance and was sucked right in. What you cite as faults are the very features I found beguiling yet compelling. I guess I'm more interested in this show's weird version of reality and characterization then…

What is up with the one mysterious comment on ROn Hendren's IMDB page? :
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Ron Hendren left ET to resume his previous career as a scouring sponge

I was about to ask if this whole article was a big joke reference to that character.

Once the Dark Tower Series lumbered into book four, I had a deep premonition that it would be a shitty ending, and dropped it right then and there. This premonition wasn't the result of emerging psychic abilities - nay - it was simply the result of reading the shitty endings of almost every single fucking book Stephen…

As a thirty seven year old… The nineties gave birth to incredible pretense. And watching these two man children enact an alternating defensive and pretentious posture for …what.. An hour? .. is fucking embarrassing.