I didn’t even get several of these choices as an option.  Never had the opportunity to select “TOY.”  Never had the option to select “YES” to leave with mom when Stefan is a boy.  Never had the option to actually take the prescription meds (only to flush them or throw them away).  I’m not sure I understand what paths…

i still think you’re a jetpack

We already killed all of the ISISes that we wanted to kill. There are more ISISes, but Russia, Iran and Syria (and, I guess, fake news?) want to kill them. We don’t want to. Because we already killed the ones we wanted to kill. Make sense?

Build a boarder wall!

HAHAHA this is the best comment so far.  “Why is the press complaining about all my golfing and vacationing?!  The government is shut down for the holidays.  What else am I supposed to do?!”

Ummm ... I think you forgot one Lenny: because “owning the libs.” Now maybe you think you’ve captured it already, but the maga-chuds like to both trigger, and own, the libs.

I enjoyed the hell out of Black Panther.  There’s a real downside to being a February release.

My recollection is that the folks in my auditorium got a good laugh around the time the naked people started appearing about the house, and then uproarious laughter when Toni Collete started flying(?).  Did that happen?  I can’t quite remember.

That wasn’t my point AT ALL. Like I said, I didn’t like the movie ... however, perhaps I would have a different takeaway had I had the opportunity to view it in an environment like (I assume) the one Mr. Dowd experienced. For what it’s worth, the laughing irritated me, because it was plainly the guffaws of people…

Yep.  Plainly a “this is ridiculous” laugh in my theater as well.  Definitely not an “uncomfortable” laugh.

well we can’t both be right. this is the internet. one of us has to relent.

So this struck me (re. Hereditary): “Capable of chilling the most jaded multiplex crowd into silence ...”

no

I’m FLOORED that Deafheaven’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is not on a single ballot. I mean, huh? What? Wha?

I had two favorites this year ... tied for first. I didn’t really dig anything else, but I’m willing to give some of this stuff another shot. Here’s my list:

I feel like Kacey Musgraves is getting all the pub because she made an album in which she actively refused to be stuck in any genre (country included). And I respect that. But here’s the thing ... the songs are just ... meh. I don’t know.

Yes

Sissy Spacek is excellent in Castle Rock (and she is excellent in her small role in Homecoming as well). But much like Mandy Moore in This Is Us, sometimes the actor required to carry the most water somehow gets overlooked. That’s my long way of saying that I thought Andre Holland’s performance in Castle Rock was…

For a show with such an intriguing premise, “boring” is unfortunately the most apt description. Big letdown.

When I use it, it tells me I want to go to Nice, France.  But I don’t want to go there.  I guess