
The secret is in the relationship between things whose laws of continuity escape us


If I treat my wife poorly and then slap another woman on the ass and then my wife shuts me out and that makes me so upset, we would all do well to reflect on the ways that that is like the Odyssey Day after thoughts: People are doing things that aren’t quite legible and getting mad that their partners are doing things that aren’t quite legible while everyone argues about ways we could make the West’s Oldest Story more legible.

Differentiated from the show mainly in that things often take longer than they would have: shots, conversations, sequences — to no discernible benefit. It’s an episode of the show that would have been fine except it’s too long.

The French are like other people except they get horny in a more complicated way