Funny: because Mike and his friends (Skander Halim, Theo Panayides, etc.) were the first people to "discover" and "popularize" Outlaw Vern, and because Mike seemed so enthralled by the guy circa his emergence, I've always assumed Mike *was* Vern. Now following Mike on Letterboxd, I'm starting to question whether…

He's my favourite critic, too, for all of the reasons you mention. I think I'd pass on him reviewing porn, though.

Came here to post that exact thing. I've never been "catfished", as such, but I've gone down some pretty stupid roads due to loneliness, naivete, alcohol, etc. Being "smart" is not a factor in being vulnerable. (Also, based on the movie and on what I've seen of the show, most people who get catfished aren't…

I'm a lot like Manny, and I'm severely developmentally challenged and need intensive therapy and counselling, so your story checks out.

Yeah, just the tone of it is much darker than even a plot summary makes it sound. I just rewatched half of it the other night, for the first time in many years, and I couldn't get through it. It's indisputably well-acted, well-written, and well-directed, but it's just so sad. It's not even "Precious"-style…

So I'm basically Manny. My first reaction to his terrible play with his real family's names just barely changed was, "Isn't he supposed to be 19 or something? Isn't this the kind of shit I was doing at ten?" Then I remembered that I was still basically doing it at 19, and cut the show some slack.

As someone who only knows him as House's buddy from the mental institution and the guy on the bus from the HIMYM episode, it's weird and delightful to me that he's become such a cultural sensation.

Aw, the college kids impress me sometimes (I haven't watched in a few years and am open to the possibility that the college tournament questions have been dumbed down, but circa a few years ago, the college kids impressed me). Agreed about the younger kids, though.

Hey, that sounds fun! I will start reading these threads!

I, the big brain, am winning again! I am the greetest! Now I am leaving Earth for no raisin!

2BG certainly has a unique writing style.
Caroline: *innocuous thing about when she was rich*
Max: *weird quasi-pun about a completely different but similar-sounding thing from her horrible childhood*
Rinse, repeat. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.

I've never stumbled into one of these posts before. Are the comments always about Jeopardy! and MWAP?

How do you pronounce MWAP? Is it like "MMMBop" with a lengthy M, or it like "mwah" with a P instead of the H?

This review has convinced me to start watching MWAP, exclusively because "MWAP" is fun to say.

I was gonna say, like anyone here knows anything about getting banged.

Ugh, I PVRed this tonight on Canadian TV, and it cut off (at 11:03) halfway through a court scene (when Christine Lahti has just accused the guy of stealing at a previous job.) How much of the episode did I miss?

Once, I told someone something was "incredible" and they lost their shit: "What do you mean, I'm not credible? I'm VERY credible! You think I'm LYING? I have science to back me up! SCIENCE, jackass!" I had to explain that I meant "incredible" in the colloquial sense of "extremely good", which is…literally the only…

I was actually watching this show. For my money, it's the best cast a new drama has had in quite a while—-Heigl doesn't do much for me, but I love Dule Hill, Laverne Cox, Dreama Walker, Elliott Gould, Steven Pasquale. The show was nothing special, but it certainly wasn't cancelled-after-two-episodes bad. If anything,…

This may or may not have been exactly what I thought this show was going to be when I started watching it.

It's one of those things where I do not share your view, but I can see how someone could get there without being a bad person.