The Best Movies of All Time

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Last year was also a good year for TV and one of my three favorite TV shows along with flea bag. There was a show by a guy named Sam Esmail which gave us just a fantastic season of television do you know what I'm talking about um like unless you're not talking about mr. Robot he had that other homecoming no I haven't seen it good really you're putting that above mr. Rob are you nottalking about mMr. Robot I'm not yeah. And so did I super good that almost made my list and dark obviously but there was a show by a guy namedSam Esmail which giving us just a wonderful season of televisionDo you

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.