Only 54 too
Aw shit.
This sucks 
Time to re-watch The Wire.
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Won zero Emmys. Lol Emmys. Scott Rudin has like 27.
What the hell.
My family used to listen to one of his post-Blues Clues songs all the time:
Tonightâs episode of Big Brother might have been the dumbest shit Ive ever seen put on television.
Watching the 9/11 thing on Netflix with my son. The footage still takes me to this intense despair every time I see it. Its been at least a decade since I saw the two planes hit and the first one hitting just made me pull on my cheeks in despair. Its still so monstrous
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It is such a testament to the power of images. More people are dying from COVID every day.
Maybe if we plastered the dead bodies of the Sandy Hook victims all over TV there would be more of a will to act.
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I 100% agree with you. My buddy woke me up at 8:58 that morning and had me turn on the TV so I saw the second plane hit live.
Yeah, 3 K people died that day which is a drop in the bucket compared to Covid, but ill remember the image of plane 2 hitting until I die.
I dont know guys, I feel like the antivaxxers will all be converted if we can just perfect our Excel charts. Weâre one bubble chart away, I can sense it!
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Not this. Actually show the dead bodies. Look at Sandy Hook as mentioned above. Now instead of seeing grieving parents you see piles of dead 6 year olds with bullet holes and blood all over the place. We shouldnât santize the reality of all this madness. Show people dying of Covid in real time.
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This is so true.
In Birmingham, the civil rights movement sent out black children as bait, daring whites to over-react. The racists obliged with firehoses, producing images that helped sway public opinion.
If these pictures exist, someone should leak them, no matter who wants to keep them hidden, privacy be damned.
Someone should burst into an ICU to capture the pathetic last days of a conservative hero dying of COVID and livestream the suffering.
From the latest episode of Billions,
" Penthouse walls⌠âecho with the sound of salesmenâ "
âThat guy was an artist. Right? Neil Peart.â
wtf, I canât take this shit anymore.
This is the 10th reference like that and Iâm only 5 minutes into this episode!
But, I got that one because I grew up in Canada and when I was 14 I loved all that terrible prog-rock shit. So, I got my little rush of serotonin or whatever and had that chortle of knowingness the show runners were hoping Iâd have.
Theyâve gone with this gimmick throughout the run of this show, of course, and it was cute, I guess, for the first couple of seasons. Now I donât even give a crap if I donât know wtf they are talking about.
âAxe you tore through that guy like a hungry Ted Bundy!â
âBundy was a two-time Oregon state wrestling champion though.â
Yah, Iâm not gonna bother looking that up to see if itâs true and donât care either way.
Every reference is to display how smart and smug the characters are and you can share in their smugness because you too know who Tony Siragusa is or feel like a rube hillbilly living in the hillbilly woods in a hillbilly shack because you donât know what the hell the Allen Conference is.
Imagine showing Billions to your 75 year old granny. Every word they are saying sounds like English but not a goddamn thing is understandable.
This show has always seemed targeted towards the aging Gen-X or Y crowd, like me, and they always love this kind of thing. But this has to be the final nail. Weâve been doing this shit for like 30 damn years, ffs. The generation of irony and pop-culture references. Didnât I see gags like this in the early '90s seasons of The Simpsons? Sad Gen-X hero Tarantino seemed so fresh for doing this kind of thing in his first couple of movies at that time as well. etc. etc. Blame Dennis Miller, I guess.
Iâm not a big fan, but didnât South Park bury this anyhow with the Member Berries thing like 10 years ago?
Eh, Iâll still watch Billions, it was a good show, Iâll stick it out. I didnât like the last episode though⌠thought it was boring as hell. And how long was this show on layoff? 18 months or something? How come everyone, except Maggie Siff, looks like theyâve aged 20 years?!? Captain Winters is starting to look like the REAL Captain Winters when he was doing interviews for BoB, hehe.
Ah, I just found this article from 2019 which explains the dialogue in Billions much better⌠except they still seem to admire it. âThese people are smarter than we are,â says Koppelman. âThey are incredibly well-read. Theyâve seen all the important movies. They can talk about paintings. They have an incredible felicity of interests and knowledge.â gtfo.
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Man I have to watch The Wire, period.
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Been re-watching Billions.
The first couple seasons were a delightâwhen the characters were still caricatures of the types of people they were portraying, and not yet caricatures of themselves.
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