In fairness, the play sucks.

You’re not really making a point here though. You’re just being needlessly pedantic.

It’s a CW show for adults. 

Big Theater Kid energy right here. 

I think the show you wanted is at odds with the show that you got, and worse, you’re insistent on evaluating the characters as living, breathing humans instead of narrative components. Armond is not “ill,” he’s a fictional character in a television show that called for his tragic demise - any critical eye could see…

Lol, who hurt you? Finding nuance in execrable characters isn’t a defense or endorsement of them, but this concept seems to be slipping through your fingers. Sure, they’re avatars for a class of people that have left you feeling aggrieved, but that’s not justification for you to steamroll someone’s thoughtful analysis…

In another universe, I’d hope for a more nuanced approach with an actor (like Delroy Lindo perhaps) who can access the more, uh, complicated facets of Richard Williams. But unfortunately the track record of the director and Will Smith lead me to expect a schmaltz fest.

We get it, you really wanted Fred Armisen to be in this.

Well good news, there are plenty of dull, insipid movies bereft of conflict and complexity for you to enjoy. Art doesn’t require this type of hall-monitoring - you can simply take your Mamma Mia! DVD and move along.

She? Her? Am I missing the joke here?

Please, save the concern and just say you’re hoping for lurid details.

Sea-lioning implies that I was attempting to seem polite. I wasn’t. 

Please, elaborate. I’m struggling to see how this hypothetical “daydream” of yours (based on your perception of her physicality) is helpful to anyone. I happen to think fantasizing about someone in a victim scenario is creepy and weird, regardless of how well you think they’d acquit themselves.

I am positive that Joss never tried, specifically BECAUSE she would have slapped his ass to the floor, haha.

I’m having a daydream right now that one time Joss tried to pull some of his abuser bullshit on her and she just slapped his ass to the floor.

I return to this site every few weeks, hoping each time that Joan will finally be gone. If Joan was a commenter she’d never make it out of the grays, because she embodies the worst qualities of a garden-variety troll - she’s hateful, cynical, and intellectually dishonest. Most people choose to dismiss those types…

There are boxing fans and there are Tyson stans. Boxing fans know that Roy, even in his extremely diminished state, can easily bounce jabs off Mike’s forehead all night if he chooses to do so. Tyson stans are gassing themselves up over some nice workout vids, thinking it’s 1988 again.

I don’t think Roy’s scared of a guy who was last seen quitting on his stool after getting worked-over by a tubby Irishman.

Interesting. I hear it occasionally in the southwest - and only hear it used in the way Damon described. Can I ask what coast/region you’re in?

For what it’s worth, I think you’ve misjudged the helpfulness of your “game.” Values aside, spam is spam and you’re both complicit in making the comment sections unreadable.