Ah, so that’s what he was shooting in Toronto.

Cheers

The Thick of It/Veep (cheating, I know, but Veep was meant to be a US remake of Thick of It but evolved into its own thing - the first four seasons have practically the same writing team)

30 Rock

BoJack Horseman

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Close calls:

Community (if only it hadn’t come back weaker), Frasier, The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development (if only it didn’t come back), Seinfeld, Friends, MASH, Parks N Rec, The Office (both), Extras, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Action, The Comeback, Silicon Valley, The IT Crowd, Spaced, Coupling,

David Chase and David Simon, Aaron Sorkin at his best is brilliant. Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould achieved something magical these past 14 years with BB and BCS.

Including playing Bob Dylan!

I feel Your Honour landed with a dud and is gonna fizzle out with season 2 (which is its last). It’s highly unlikely it will be remembered or discussed much after that. It will be a blip on Cranston’s post Walter White character.

Post Breaking Bad, both Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston haven’t had the best of luck in their endeavours (some exceptions aside like BoJack Horseman for Paul and Cranston’s Broadway success with Network). Also, I dunno where did Anna Gunn go. She was great on the show but haven’t seen much of her since.

Sold on the title alone.

I have never enjoyed murder so much as when Ms. Christie concocts it!

That’s exactly what happened to me. I was exclusively fiction when I was younger, with maybe 1 or 2 non-fic sprinkled in. After college is when I started reading in earnest, and the first few years ratio was 80-20 in favour of fiction. It kept tilting throughout the years and now at age 31, it’s 50-50.

I still love my fiction but am not raring for it like I used to, I selectively pick something that catches my eye from the new ones, otherwise I keep exploring favourite genres and authors more (for example, throughout pandemic I dug deep into Elmore Leonard, Raymond Chandler, James Crumley, etc.).

Non-fiction has become very important to me. Reading about topics that interest me, politics, current affairs (global politics, geopolitics, tech), economic history, modern history (20th century onwards), movies & TV production/cultural impact, etc.

I haven’t seen it, but remember thinking the exact same thing during promo for S1. This definitely felt like something Cranston had explored well before in Breaking Bad. The show is based on an International TV series (similar to Homeland).

That’s a damn good line.

Cambridge Five inspired Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy as well.

They should have had a younger actor for earlier scenes. The last 2 hours (from when they have the ceremony in Frank’s honour), keep De Niro (that’s where the shades of legendary De Niro get to shine).

I personally didn’t mind the deaging and loved the movie, but it has proven to be a big point of contention, especially on De Niro who has the most time period changes in the story. Get a younger dude for the earlier era (hell, give it to Bobby Cannavale and get another dude for Cannavale role) and then let De Niro enter for the last 90+ minutes.

The Plaza bump

An American Friend has a couple of directors.

Guilty by Suspicion and Quiz Show have Scorsese.

The Fabelmans has David Lynch.

They bought 10+90 which would guarantee syndication (100 is the magic number). I am not sure if that still holds true. This is around 2011 news now.

Katharine Hepburn sported it quite often!

Terriers

I believe A Better Tomorrow fits the bill.

A lot of early John Woo stuff consisted of this motif.

Really good book! Very meta.

Same. I am thinking a lot of Charlie Kaufmann-esque shenanigans, especially with the meta nature of the book.