Ah you were talking about me. Yes - I tried hard to make it clear I found it unbelievable because he's also a horrible person, but evidently people didn't take that from what I said. So I apologise, again. And look ruefully at the rest of those comments, full of people talking about Briga Heelan's "curvaceousness".

If you have a decent personality, you absolutely deserve these things. The point with Gus is that he is also a dreadful human being.

"Well, we can't expect viewers to believe a man would be attracted to anyone less beautiful than those two."

This is thoughtful and well argued, and I accept that in describing him as hideous I may well have done something that I would find very distasteful if applied to a woman. I'm sorry it was repeated and I'm definitely sorry that what I said was so shitty- there was no call for that, indeed. I had intended to…

Here someone clearly did use editorial control in selecting the shots - not always the most obvious ones, etc - so I think it's allowed?

Ground Floor was great!

A man as ugly as Gus constantly attracting these young, very beautiful women - complaining about it is futile, I do realise that it's part of the premise of the show in a Woody Allen style (and just as with Allen, seeing one of the producers of a show doing that with their own character is a mix of well, at least…

Loads!

I didn't think the book was that bad tbh. It's been many years since I read it, but I found it more memorable, at least, than a lot of thrillers.

I'm clearly missing something, but I'm not getting Bertie at all. It feels to me like someone told her to play the part as if the character were meant to be insufferably annoying, and someone else told her no, she's just very very simple, and she's trying to please both those people. It's weird - clearly everyone else…

You know I once shot a whole movie without ever getting out of my car?

I can totally believe that, I've worked for people before with the same policy. We never read fanfic, even, and had that as a stated policy. It's only sensible really.

No problem :) I think I posted my reaction to it in a Sunday 'tell us about your pop-culture weekend' thread rather than in this one. I thought it was very well made & lots of fun. That's the trouble with this site - many people's reactions to films/TV don't end up in the comments on the actual reviews, because mostly…

I'm watching this and have got as far as this episode, but I don't know how much longer I can bear Gus's pathetic hopelessness. I mean i know people are bad at their jobs, but something about just how bad he is at his is just really difficult to watch. And he's also obnoxious.
I like that the girl is called Arya. Until…

This comment was three months old! I did indeed see and enjoy it not long after i posted.

The young slim me would be played by Alicia Vikander or Morena Baccarin, in my dreams. The current me would be played by Kathy Bates. Kathy is lovely but time has not been good to me.

This article has prompted me to reconsider Brooklyn. I hadn't really rated it that much, had thought of it as a bit of a crowd-pleasing romance of the sort the BBC would put on on a Sunday. Then I read an article that couldn't even be bothered to imdb the main character's name and I thought hm, maybe there's more to…

Oh the nostalgia of this. A book I loved and had forgotten about - I think I only read one of the sequels, maybe, though. I remember how vivid Little Bear was as a character. And all the sorting through the box of plastic figures to find him stuff like a wife and a horse. And being really scared for him. Glad to hear…

I have to admit, I'm enjoying Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja the most at the moment. I just really like all the characters and the snappy writing, and it's really well-made, the artwork is really nice imho.

Oh no! I loved that song because they used it in the X-Files movie and I didn't want to think of it as creepy. I will have to listen again and reevaluate.