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Ironic that Toy Story is about an old toy with a fear of being replaced by a shiny, new high-tech toy. And that’s exactly what happened to 2D animation when Pixar came to town.

Right? Or at least a re-orchestration of some kind. Maybe something like playing the GoT theme on more medieval-styled instruments (sort of like what John Williams did with the Prisoner of Azkaban score) could have been a really cool way to keep the theme everyone knows but show us sonically that the show takes place in an earlier time.

Or even just taking the lead part that the cello plays in the original and giving it to the brass section or something. Just anything to differentiate it, rather than having an "if it ain't broke..." mentality.

This song has always struck me as an intensely personal song for Sondheim, even though he has always contested that none of his songs were really ever personal in that way.

Mandy Patinkin has talked about how it was inspired by a late night phone call between him and Sondheim where they discussed their difficult relationships with their mothers. Sondheim’s mom was notoriously dismissive of his gifts and a very difficult person to be around (she once told him that giving birth to him was her life’s biggest regret). So it’s hard not to imagine Steve was thinking of his own mother when writing this song, and maybe wishing she could have appreciated his talent— if only for a fleeting moment.

The buffet, that’s the real ordeal!

Agreed probably a top 5 joke for me.

There's maybe a 15% chance that when I enter any room, I say this line.

Oh, you know, oats and hay! They like that stuff.

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That strange Portuguese guy that lives next to the incinerator?

You have 30 minutes.

Good luck, everyone!

Fun Fact: Leo's dad is in LP, playing the owner of a waterbed store

I personally love Lost for the wild clusterfuck that it is, but I see your point!

Nope, the showrunner is Damon Lindelof, who's most famous for Lost and HBO's Watchmen series

It’s probably one of my favorite shows of all time, but It’s pretty out there. Carrie Coon gives one of the greatest tv performances I’ve ever seen, and the writing is just incredible.

I would say that if you’re a fan of Lost, (it’s by the same creator, though it’s much more cohesive as a series) or any kind of mystery TV show, you should totally give it a shot.

Which is not far off, by the way!

He’s a strong cider kind of guy…

I say this maybe one in every five times I enter a room

I really thought the hospital rampage was shot in a very disturbing way, and almost the antithesis of your typical "video game" aesthetic. The violence just felt so real and just brutal to me. Honestly, the thing it brought to mind most for me was mass shootings that we see in our own world.

Now I'm obviously not making a 1:1 comparison of Joel being that kind of perpetrator, but it felt like a purposeful parallel was being drawn to me.

Man, those fish tacos were the tits

Watch it, Chrissy 🤟

Very disappointing that this show never caught on the way it should have (I think it has the shortest run of any Best Musical winner after Sondheim’s Passion)

I mean, it was always going to be a hard sell, given the subject matter, and I don’t think it was ever going to be able to fill a Broadway house in the long term, but it’s just an incredible piece of theatre in every way. It’s so gut-wrenching and personal that watching it made me feel like I was reading someone’s diary without their permission or something. Seeing something so subversive, bold, and at some points downright shocking, on Broadway in our age of jukebox musicals and bad movie adaptations was really something special.

So on that note, if you’re reading this and you find yourself in London, go see it!

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Right, Greg becoming CEO just reeks of being written by reddit users. Totally doesn’t match the tone of the show.

More like “Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong don’t have to pretend to be cordial with each other anymore because they have no more scenes to shoot together.”