J.T.

Odessa is in heaven. I seriously doubt that will be a film shown during this entire run that came out before 1980 unless they show Dragonslayer on Sir Ralph Richardson day or Dressed To Kill on Angie Dickenson day. I'm actually looking forward to Boris Karloff day and they will obviously show King Kong uncut on Fay Wray day.

That's why I used "power moves" in my statement. Tyrell socially engineered the male AA and then bugged his smartphone will malware so he's well versed in the ways of hackerdom and the encounter was all about Wellick climbing the corporate ladder. It had nothing to do with sex, so why did the scene have to pick up in medias res during the bumping and grinding part? Unless Esmail assumes we're idiots, we already know that Tyrell is going to bone the guy. The only real conclusion I can draw is that Esmail wanted to draw parallels between Tyrell's seduction of the AA (where he is clearly the dominant) and the later S&M encounter with his wife (where he is clearly the submissive despite taking on the duties of the dominant).

Holy shit, man. We were decent players even during the days when our hideouts were abandoned gas stations. At the height of the 360 griefing days, we were shooting jets out of the sky with concentrated minigun fire and playing King Of The Mountain on the top of the Diddler Sachs mall. We'd make Creed ragequit in seconds. I'm sure I'd be back to shooting 6 or 7 under par at Golf if I tried hard enough so we'd even flog him in mini games. I'd try my best not to plug him after completed heists but it would be hard since I do not trust any white dots that are not DVDVR.

The show jumped the shark slightly for me with the introduction of MK. I know the sheep mask she wore is supposed to represent Dolly, but I can't help but associate it with the Wyatt Family so as a consequence, I can't take anything related to her very seriously..

So imitation is the best form of flattery and WWE appears to be copying this angle for the New Day / Wyatt Feud. When does Bray introduce La Sombra as Senor Benjamin Wyatt?

Remember when you hoped that Ambrose would get a title run? Me too. We were idiots, weren't we? Ambrose cut a great promo on Monday night, but this internal Shield feud is the drizzling shits. Cesaro and KO save the mid-card again. Imitation is not the best form of flattery. The New Day-letion is going to be a fucking train wreck. Jeff and Matt must be laughing all the way to the bank. Must be? You can find out for sure by checking Matt's Twitter feed.

Studios are slowly moving away from PG-13 fright fests back to R-rated gems thanks to The Conjuring, Mama, Oculus, and other Hard R movies that were scary, fairly profitable, and pretty well received by critics.. I know it is frowned upon by most horror mavens, but I have no problems with Lights Out being PG-13 especially since it is directed by the same guy that created the short and he supposedly has a lot of creative control. The other shorts he's made are creepy yet innocuous, so a PG-13 sounds about right for something he'd create. I don't think that horror movies need R ratings simply because they are horror movies, nor do I think that materiel that would probably be much better when presented in an R format needs to be watered down to PG-13 for sake of a wider release. If it is a good horror movie, people will go and see it regardless of the rating. So far, Lights Out is 100% Fresh at RT, but we'll see if the good reviews keep coming in.

I'm not going to defend everything about the show, but I still think the Shayla hate is pretty absurd. She and Eliot both feel marginalized and she's the closest thing he has to a friend, but even that relationship is based on transactions. The only reason he lets her close to him is because he depends on her for drugs and Shayla is close to Eliot because he is probably the only man in her life that isn't a threatening criminal. It is a mutually beneficial dysfunctional relationship. And yeah, like it or not we are indoctrinated on the way the world works in Episode One when we figure out that we're inside Eliot's head and get our feed through his eyes. Doesn't excuse the shortcuts but it cushions the blow.

Yeah, my daughter used a bad word once when she was about seven years old, but a word to the wise was sufficient and I couldn't be too angry at her because I knew that she probably heard that word from either me or her mother. If I want her to behave properly, I have to behave properly. *car swerves in front of my truck on the highway* My kid: Hey, Dad! Did you see that crazy asshole? Me: Yes, I did. And please don't use that word anymore, okay? My kid: Okay. Me: And I will try harder not to say that word around you either. Deal. My kid: (smiles) Deal. Kids respect you more when you hold yourself accountable to the same standards you expect of them. I still swear like a sailor sometimes, but never around my daughter. I am the boss of me and I am responsible for my attitude. I lead from the front. I set the example that MUST be followed.

The thing that bothers me the most is that the fellow in the Minneapolis incident complies with the officer and gets shot anyway. That could've just as well have been me being shot and killed in front of my girlfriend and (even worse) my daughter. Most people would look at that and think that there is no way that sort of thing would happen to them, while homeboys can watch that and easily put themselves right in driver seat. Then we get to experience the BS tactic of attempting to vilify the guy by bring up as much dirt on him as possible and argue that he somehow deserved what he got or contributed to his own demise. I really don't give a fuck if he got pulled over several times for various minor offenses involving his car or for issues with his driver's license and maybe that is just the evidence of him being singled out rather than evidence of him being a rampant lawbreaker? Last time I checked, the punishment for a broken taillight was not the death sentence. Maybe if he weren't a poor cafeteria worker that probably got paid shit wages, he could've afforded to keep his car well maintained and pay the taxes and fees to keep his license shit straight?

For once I was a television elitist snob and checked out both seasons of Criminal Justice from my excellent local library before watching Episode One of the HBO miniseries. and was happy to see the late Pete Postlethwaite and the lovely Ruth Negga were in the cast for the first season of the BBC production. I'm looking forward to see what HBO will do with the materiel. So far, I am impressed and as far as I am concerned, John Turturro has already earned his Emmy nomination. If this turns out to be a ratings monster, I hope HBO will adopt Season 2

I think the show works a bit too hard to explain Tyrell to us under the assumption that his lack of screen time will not allow us to fully appreciate his depth. I think that is why nearly everything that Wallstrom does as Wellick is so over the top. I have no issues with homoerotic materiel in a television show, but I am smart enough to figure out that everything is about sex EXCEPT FOR SEX, and Tyrell's seduction of Big Evil's admin assistant is all about power moves so there was no need for the two minutes of pitchers and catchers on my television screen. I also get that Tyrell is only the dominant when Joanna is not around so I did not need the shock value added of pregnant S&M to see that while Joanna is in the role of the submissive and getting tied down and gagged, she is still the alpha in that exchange.. If I have a wish for Season 2, it would be to hope that Esmail learns how to do more with less and stop assuming that I am an idiot that needs every graphic detail handed to me. That is a bit counterintuitive since this is a show about a person who views other people as walking storage devices chock full of information waiting to be gleaned rather than human beings with normal frailties that deserve interaction and communion. I also think that it is hilarious that Eliot's dream is to save the world, but he has such contempt for the people that populate that world.

I hear ya, Marty. My daughter is 13 going on 14 so I am having to deal with the early teen years / almost to High School stuff now. It is tough because my kid is already very reserved and has grown up with the dysfunction of divorced parents as her normal. Add teen angst to that and you have me really having to up my parental game these days. Lots of positive reinforcement and lots of questions about boys and stuff. I am already prepared to have my ex-wife dump "the talk" into my lap, but I am strangely good with that.

Your awesome awesomness just grew by several magnitudes.

I'm not fond of cops in general, but I am also not fond of five innocent men having to pay the price for the alleged injustices of other men. It makes my heart sad. If the justice system would hold questionable policemen accountable for their actions, good policemen would not be held in contempt by association. Why do people want to discredit BLM by assuming that they are only concerned with Black lives and counter with this All Lives Should Matter bullshit? The argument of the movement is that Black lives should matter just as much as everyone else's, which apparently they don't.. The idea of All Lives Should Matter is already built in to the BLM framework, dummies.. I never thought that the most reasonable words spoken by anyone last week would've come out of the mouth of Newt Gingrich.

This is important because right before Shayla shows Eliot her artwork, he proclaims to know everything about Shayla by virtue of rummaging through her social media and knowing all of her dark secrets, yet the revelation of this one important and very personal aspect of Shayla catches him completely off guard. So, in fact, he really doesn't know her at all. The most likely reason that Eliot is so surprised by this is because Eliot always looks for the ugly in everyone and this is something that is actually beautiful about our beloved morphine dealer. Their kiss afterwards is sweet because that is the first time that Shayla and Eliot have a moment of bonding that has nothing to do with drugs. She selflessly shares something about herself and Eliot is genuinely grateful for her thinking well enough of him to finally giving something to him that does not require payment in return.... at least nothing monetary or physical. False intimacy is a running theme. Eliot hacks people because he wants to know about people, but he does not want the give and take of a personal relationship. He confuses cherry picking bad deets stolen from social media as being intimate without the mess of having to get to know someone or sharing his own life experiences with someone else.

I did not know that the AC brand needed elevating; I thought that AC was already a pretty well known thing. Also, how to you elevate your brand name by putting out a shit movie that throws shade on your brand name?

Damn. I was so close..

Eh, the entire premise of the show is that we experience everything through Eliot and he is an unreliable narrator. There is no surprise that the thing with Shayla feels like it comes out of left field given that everything is filtered through Eliot's emotional wall.

Nothing good ever happens at 2 in the morning.

So, with the Mega Millions jackpot over a half billion before taxes and Powerball close to $300 million, it is once again time to talk about how badly we'd lose our minds if we had that much money.

This is going to be reboot badass stuck on an island killin' mother fuckers with a bow and arrows Lara Croft, right?

In the attempt to be a good man, I watch the Y&R and B&B replay with my woman on Fridays when I get home for the weekend right before I go and game for a couple of hours. I just think it is hilarious how these characters commit crime after crime and never see jail time unless the person portraying them wants to take time off. Your familiarity with this frightens me. Mostly because If I don't acquire it, I will never see my man cave dream come to reality.

I am ashamed to announce that I am well aware that Victor got shot in one of this week's episodes. I also do not like what this Bill mother fucker is doing to his poor alcoholic wife on Bold & The Beautiful. Some days, I feel like I am slowly watching my man card dissolve in a glass full of hydrochloric acid. I will grill this weekend and destroy the hornet's nest slowly forming under my deck so that I can reclaim part of my masculinity. I know that I am still partly studly since I helped a co-worker change a flat tire in the parking lot yesterday. Wait a sec. How the fuck do you know about Victor Neuman, Stout~?! BUSTED~! And don't try to pull that I Only Watched General Hospital During The Cool Ass Ice Princess Episodes Because It Was Like James Bond bullshit! Do I need to get you some lemon-aid and a cucumber sandwich, too?

This is the Lovesac I want to get. IT HAS MOTHER FUCKING CUP HOLDERS AND STORAGE FOR GAME CONTROLLERS~! HOW HAS MANKIND SURVIVED WITHOUT THIS PIECE OF FURNITURE? I am going to end up like the humans in Wall-E and lose all use of my spinal column and legs after extended periods of refusing to walk.