I harped on the ethically murky relationship between Rebecca and Sam last season, and I stand by that. Adding the Dr. Jacob/Michelle and Jack/Keeley relationships and it’s getting to be a bit much. My main bugbear is just how much the development of the female characters has stalled out after season one. One of the bes…

I didn’t feel like Nate was improving, either. There is something missing from his arc. We jumped from bad Nate to almost redeemed Nate without any seeming impetus for that change. It feels like there’s a big hole in the middle of his character development, so it does make it seem like he gets the girl and starts to…

Yeah, my main takeaway is that there’s a pretty good chance that Costner is not in a very good place right now. 

I think we had somehow obtained a version with the nudity blurred out. At least that’s what my (very fallible) memory is telling me. In any event, I’m sure my Catholic high school didn’t let us watch any nudie bits. 

We watched Romeo and Juliet in my high school in the late 90s. Like you, I can’t imagine it makes the rounds anymore. I haven’t seen it in a while, but I imagine Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet is shown more, given that it doesn’t contain nudity while the violence is pretty camp. 

Lifehacker has thrown off the shackles of the Herb and I am here for it! Death to slideshows. 

Oh yeah, if I had to pick a Roy kid that ends up dead at the end of this, it’s Roman. Kendall is a cockroach; cockroaches always survive. Roman is sensitive and has spent his whole life putting up walls to hide that sensitivity (and to hide from abuse). Something has broken in him with Logan’s death, and I wouldn’t be…

I think the safest assumption to make at this point is that none of the Roy kids will “win,” if the definition of winning is that the emerge as the head of Waystar or of whatever corp they build with Pierce. I think the show has been pretty clear from the outset about that. Yes, it gives us moments where we see the…

This was how I saw it, too. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Shiv, and she’ll lose in the long run. Not because Mattson is some genius, but because he is better at this than all of the Roys are. The Roy kids have spent their lives pretending to be what they thought their daddy wanted. None of them is capable of running…

Hmmmm, what do all of the justices mentioned here have in common, I wonder?

Huh, I had no idea that voided pomodoros were a thing. I can see how that sort of structure would be motivational to some, but also how it could be incredibly de-motivating to others. I fall into that latter category. If you make me start a pomodoro all over again, I’m going to quit doing pomodoros. I guess it’s a…

I’ve never heard the condition that you’ve got to reset your timer if your focus strays. It seems to me like that would be counter productive and discourage a lot of people from using the method. Basically, if you’re 5 minutes away from a break and you get distracted, then you’ve got to push through another 25 minutes…

I mean, it basically is a hatchback in pretty much all but the name, right? Dimension-wise, it’s almost exactly what my Pontiac Vibe hatchback was, except the Trax is about six inches longer. Calling it a CUV at this point just feels like a marketing tactic.

I read that and was like, “But did he?” No, he did not, because the movie didn’t light up the box office. It lost money by my estimation, and flopped with critics. 

Stellan Skarsgard was chilling in a mediocre The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. He can pull off menacing and evil. He would be good, I think, if they wanted to go with an older actor (the book casts Holden as almost ageless, so I’m not sure what age range they’ll be casting).

So I’m the rare person who doesn’t think that Blood Meridian is McCarthy’s masterwork, but that’s OK. I recognize that I’m in the minority. I much prefer No Country for Old Men, and then perhaps The Road, for their blend of accessibility alongside McCarthy’s trademark style and complex themes. I found Blood Meridian…

I’m amazed that they knew the Franco film but not the Matt Damon adaptation. I figured that was far more well known than Franco’s. 

Thank you. Thornton’s All the Pretty Horses, starring Matt Damon, isn’t a great film, but it surely counts as an adaptation of McCarthy’s work. A simple Google would have confirmed that. It’s not something I would expect most people to know (I only really know because pop culture/adaptation studies are part of my work…

I distinctly remember a time when I was fresh out of college, in a poorly paying job, when I would pay very close attention to the scores of my local MLB team because they ran a promotion. Any time the team scored more than 5 runs, you got however many runs they scored off the cost of an oil change at a local chain.…

I’ve lived in rural Ohio, PA, NC and Indiana in my adult life. I understand the drawbacks and the positives of rural life. Trust me that Morgantown and WV are in class of their own. I found ways to be happy in all those other places. Morgantown is a uniquely miserable place. Yes, you have closed-minded people…