This hit close to home in a way that was kind of uncomfortable. My best friend through high school and part of college was literally Lawrence. Right down to the, "You're a placeholder friend" conversation which I was on the receiving end of.

I identified with Matt pretty hard. The way he always tries to balance out Lawrence's rage and reactive nature. The way that all of his accomplishments seem to be an affront to the person he calls his…

I'm going to try to say what I need to say as tactfully as I can, because I definitely do see the effort that went into this, but I have notes.

Paulie Shore captures exactly zero of the energy or kindness or strangeness of Richard Simmons. I can appreciate that there's a (pretty scant, imo) resemblance there but his line delivery seesaws between just sounding like Paulie Shore and sounding like the voice your homophobic uncle uses when talking about…