Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

I really should read my own blog.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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  1. 1.

    talboito

    I’m personally a bit distressed how much the show is attempting to make Ari sympathetic.

    He’s Ari Gold. He doesn’t need a family life, the approval of some senior partner and especially not his assistant.

    He’s goddamned Ari Gold.

    Nonetheless, the show is remains great.

  2. 2.

    Horshu

    I hated the first ep, but it got really good starting with the Kimmel one. It’s like Arli$$ in that it’s an ensemble-style show that uses lots of cameos, but has characters that are actually sympathetic behind their narcissism. Ari’s hilarious with his wife; he gets 5 seconds of intense sarcasm, 5 seconds of blowing his top, and then the rest of the night holding his head down.

  3. 3.

    Mr Furious

    A very good show. I don’t have HBO, so I don’t get to watch it, but I stayed up till like 4am watching episode after episode one night while staying at a hotel. It just kept coming on, and I couldn’t turn it off…

    Was never a big Jeremy Piven fan before (my wife thinks he’s brilliant) but after watching him on this show, I’ll concede—he is brilliant at least in this role.

  5. 5.

    Carpbasman

    I’m personally a bit distressed how much the show is attempting to make Ari sympathetic.

    Ok. Here’s the deal. All of the characters, besides Eric, are supposed to be irredeemable. They’re all hopelessly corrupt. And even Eric is succumbing, or really appears to have succumbed, to the LA life style. And given the arc of the series, he won’t be redeemed.

    In other words, they are all little Ari Golds (other than Vince) hustling their living off the Hollywood scene. I don’t know that you are supposed to root for anyone based on anything more than the fact that they are presented.

    That is, we root for Ari because it’s presented from his point of view.

    The major problem with the series is its apparent focus on the time between projects of a major star. Things may be in suspense, but we know from the get go that Vince will get the part. Things tend to resolve themselves to tidily.

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    Tony Alva

    I was not a big fan of the show in it’s first season at all, but based on my love of the other HBO series (Soprano’s, 6 Ft., Deadwood, etc…), I gave this one another look this season. I’m glad I did. Like the Soprano’s, this show’s angle is to make us forget how contemptible these characters really are by drawing us into their world where contemptible behavior is normal. It seems to be a theme with all these HBO shows. We actually give a shit about some rapist, murderer, thug serving time in OZ, or find ourselves drawn in and sympathizing with Al Swearingen on Deadwood as he trys to keep the peace, at the same time attempting to keep a piece for himself.

    I gotta hand it to the people that create these shows that do this so brilliantly. At the end of last season I would have swore that there was no way I’d ever feel the slightest bit of sympathy for Ari, but there I was hatin’ on the Malcolm McDowell guy for yanking Ari’s Mercedes from him right after he quit.

    They have me hooked once again…

  8. 8.

    Don

    Personally I can’t think of a single thing Jeremy Piven has done that I didn’t love him in, if not the project. Compare “PCU” with “Van Wilder” and you see what a difference that quality of comic talent makes in an otherwise typical genre flic, and I say that as someone who enjoys Ryan Reynold’s work.

  9. 9.

    Tony Alva

    John Cusack’s old high school buddy in Gross Pointe Blank was a great Piven role too. Hilarious movie…

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