Scott Tobias

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Rehearsal Star Potential Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** The ingenious trick of The Rehearsal so far this season is that its comic premise — spending generous HBO resources to explore and improve the relationship between co-pilots and captains on commercial airline flights — isn’t nearly as narrow as it sounds.

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Righteous Gemstones On Your Belly You Shall Go Season 4 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Walton Goggins has been the king of HBO this season, colonizing the network with The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones much as he did years ago on FX with his series-stealing performances in The Shield and Justified.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Rehearsal Gotta Have Fun Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** About halfway through this first episode of the second season of The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder sits down to make an important phone call. It’s his learned hypothesis that the cause of many airplane crashes is a breakdown in communication between the captain and the co-pilot.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Righteous Gemstones For Jealousy is the Rage of a Man Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** “What the hell are you doing here?” “Me? I’m merely shitting.” “You came all the way to Kelvin’s house to take a shit?”  “Yeah, dude. I was driving near here and I started turtle-heading. What do you want me to do?” There are levels to the comedy in The Righteous Gemstones. This exchange between Jesse and Judy on tonight’s episode is obviously hilarious on the surface.

4 weeks ago | thereveal.substack.com | Scott Tobias

One of the fundamental ironies of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver is that Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), the alienated New York cabbie whose sociopathy leads to inevitable violence, doesn’t care who he kills. His first target is a politician whose ideology is lost on him—he’s a one-issue voter and that issue is “wiping the scum off the streets”—but whose campaign staff happens to include Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), the woman who refused to keep seeing him after their first date.