I don't know you, but we can be friends

100%... I'd have to make sure my money kept me very heavily involved in the casting tho. Patrick Gallagher or someone every much like him as Davies but (no disrespect to fine actors in other films) not Paul Bettany and not Billy Boyd

If I ever win the lottery, I’m blowing the whole thing making the entire canon into prestige TV spanning decades. The first book alone could be its own 8-episode series

For you, absolutely

When are you next in midtown? I’d buy a couple of rounds for that

Testing my relative level of grace here…

I thought it was terrific, one of the bets things I watched that year

I’m single, if that helps

I think you're right insofar as there's no blue states, only red states with blue cities in them (h/t Christina Greer). My ex is from the Boston metro suburbs part of NH so I am familiar with that area. I still think the Texas milieu is distinct. This article gets to a lot why I think that is