I pretty much share the “general contempt with which Kardashian and her family are often treated for their reality show celebrity” but I heard her tell this story on Letterman’s Netflix show and, God Damn, it sounded like a scary, horrible thing to go through and I felt bad for her having to experience it.

This is sad.

What Rowling has said is shit. Don’t defend this bigot she has more than enough money to do it herself. If someone says awful things they should be held accountable. 

Yep, that’s the whole thing.

It feels like sometimes folks from marginalized groups who attain a crazy amount of success - enough so that they’re essentially inoculated to hardships by money, power, fame, etc - and are able to take a far more forgiving stance on things, especially when it comes to friends. I’m thinking similarly of Ellen paling…

Hey did anybody else notice Nadine referring to Flagg as Walter? It happened very fast.

This episode finally had 2 what I felt were actual creepy moments. The first was the deformation of Flagg’s smiley button. The second was Flagg’s possession of that guy in the hospital bed.  It reminded me of what is missing form this mini-series so far.  That it’s still supposed to be a horror story.

“Nick being offered not just voice and hearing, but the position of flagg’s righthand man was interesting. Though I do think it came too early, we don’t know enough about nick to understand why he’d refuse flagg’s offer.”

I don’t know why they though a chronological, linear structure was a bad thing. I really, really don’t. To me, it’s imperative to the Stand to understand how the characters came to the decisions they did. That requires watching them go.

Not all people who live with a disability like to define themselves by that disability. In the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities, many would not see themselves as needing to be fixed. Doesn’t mean Nick can’t be someone who does want to be fixed, but his motivations and his characterization are not exactly making…

I think the reviewer (perhaps unknowingly) hit on the key issue: a The Stand adaptation SHOULD be a multi-season epic, not a less-than-ten-episodes one-shot season. The scope of the story and the number of important characters going through radical changes could ABSOLUTELY support three or four 13 episode seasons;…

i do think the flashback structure COULD work, but as we’ve seen, it clearly isn’t. the choice to ground the story on what is ultimately the weakest part of the book, the free boulder part, was a poor choice. Aside from the lack of tension as discussed, it also means rushing through the character’s stories. Nick’s…

Yeah, like...when Mick fucking Garris out-scares you with a 90s’ TV budget, something ain’t working.

Nick is deaf and mute (and played by hearing actor Henry Zaga) but in his utopian dreams about Mother Abagail, he can speak, which alongside Flagg’s offer to “fix” him plays into the old tropes about disability

Indeed. I’ve only watched the first episode so far, and even apart from the pointless flashback structure that just adds unnecessary confusion and destroys any character development arc, I’m really puzzled by why they elected to remove the horror elements. I mean, literally everything scary is gone — Stu’s experiences…

I’ll watch this, but I feel like I’ll have the same takeaway I’ve had with many, MANY other King adaptations: “Couldn’t they have tried, like, a straight-up adaptation?”

It feels like they’re operating under the assumption that everyone has seen or read at least one other version of the Stand. Which may well be true. It is one of the two most famous books by the world’s most famous author, and it does already have a well known mini-series from the same television era as Friends and…

Never attribute to malice was you can explain by incompetence. There’s a scene where Larry gives Harold a brown bag of “presents” and Harold looks inside with novelty and delight but we don’t get to see what is inside. It’s supposed to be Payday chocolate bars because Harold would leave them behind everywhere but I…

I am quite pleased not to live in the US (can you really blame me?), but if New Duck City becomes a thing I will move there. Make it happen.

Ugh. I just can’t.