Instead, he’s shipping out women! Dramatic irony!

Wow, really? Their schemes have been one of the highlights (and one of the very few moments of levity) for me this season. 

“I’ve been a union man all my life.” -Chris Bauer

“It’s about a woman (...) She can be a waitress, she can be a secretary, whatever the fuck.” -Maggie Gyllenhaal

Chris Coy is so, so good. AIDS stories can be really trite if done badly, but even though this was done rather conventionally, he really sells it.

Very different show - one of those shows that I really appreciated only seeing once a week, because it was nice to dip your toes into that community. I can’t imagine binging it. Definitely worth checking out of you like Simon, though.

Shout outs to Cassidy Freeman as Amber. She’s been great all season, and she really sold rocking that sniper rifle at the end there.

Yeah. I get that it’s a bit of a masturbatory exercise, but Franco is also... just good in both roles. 

Man, that U-turn on the psychiatrist scene was really fun.

Yeah, but it’s not there, either. For some reason that list is half a week behind on most shows, and somehow had Breaking Bad bumped to the top.

These reviews are incredibly hard to find on the website: they’re not categorized, they’re not on the TV Club front page, they’re not anywhere - I found it through Noel’s twitter. Seems to be the case for more reviews right now, but it’s kind of frustrating.

That child actor was really amazing at capturing Danny McBride’s mannerisms, too. 

It mostly feels weird because Gilliard Jr. aged a lot since D’Angelo while Lombardozzi looks the same age since he was Herc. Might be the beard and hat disguising it, but the guy looks like he didn’t age at all.

It’s Herc! Except he plays a real life, “visionary” cop (according to David Simon in the behind-the-scenes)! What a whiplash!

Right? He’s a fantastic Eeyore in every scene. 

Tom Cruise has shown to have thoroughly good taste in scripts over the years. 

I’ve always kind of wondered about the original whether it was all MEANT to be tongue-in-cheek over the top and profoundly silly, or whether the creators actually thought it was really cool.

Is it? I mean, obviously with regards to Spacey, but the film as a whole?

I don’t think that’s right, the encounter with Aviva near the end seemed to imply that they’re actual orphans that Farouk took in and used as a prison for his enemies. 

Fukuyama died, what was Fukuyama is now Ptonomy. At least that’s what I assumed.