After SNL, Kristen Wiig turned into a stunning beauty so gradually that I didn’t even notice.

This bullshit is a strategy used by the wealthy, corporate, and powerful to get ordinary folks to keep on voting for the political party that helps the former and hurts the latter, in a mass redistribution of wealth upward—and people fall for it every damn time.

I had the wacky thought that Irma could be responsible for the billboard vandalism, as revenge on Larry by targeting his friends.

Sounds like the show is trying to do too much. The broken state of American political journalism itself would need more episodes, much less the show trying to critique all forms of political media all at once, and then showing the private lives of the journalist characters, and then tackling complex but deeply…

I think I saw some of the Nicole Kidman movie, which I believe was excoriated by critics and audiences. I vaguely remember watching the first episode of the Kiernan Shipka reboot of Sabrina, which I remember liking, but didn’t continue.

Oh, I never thought of witch stories that way until Handlen brought it up. And then my immediate reaction was an eye-roll. I think witch narratives can be fun and creative, metaphors for whatever the author wants to talk about, or just light, frothy entertainment. There’s a wide range of fiction witches lend…

People working for companies and corporations being upset at a beloved dog, for being itself and charming people, is an apt symbol for the state and soul of modern capitalism.

Resident Alien and Poker Face are the two best reasons to get Peacock; the streamer is also showing Season 3 concurrently with SyFy’s airing. Not mentioned in this good write-up of what the show does so well is recurring guest star Linda Hamilton. (I’d love a Schwarzenegger cameo with her character.) The comedy is…

Remember former AVC writer Zack Handlen mentioning he had issue with the witch genre, as in real life history, innocent women were murdered because men thought they were witches. I kinda see that perspective, but it is a fun genre and can be easily turned feminist when the woman has magical powers to destroy the men…

The Tree of Life not here is a big omission.

“My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullshit.”

Ever since I read Mo Ryan’s book, Burn It Down, I can’t read Casey Bloys name without shuddering. (He has a physically abusive record against women.)

It’s been so many years since I finished the series, I had completely forgotten this character’s fate. Reading the scene in question via the spoiler link moved me. No surprise: SK is a terrific writer.

I liked it. More stars should sing cover songs in TV/movies. It’s silly and playful. Nice they incorporated the actual incident Queen Elizabeth went through, when someone broke into her bedroom and she kept him talking until the guards showed up. Though in this case, Winslet’s head of state doesn’t have Betty’s charm…

I was waiting for someone to utter the name, but, nope. I’ve been recently thinking about Spielberg’s The Terminal, where the fictional European country Tom Hanks is from is called Krakohzia. That’s a terrible name (too on the nose). Also endearingly childlike cute, befitting the movie.

If that’s generally true for all his work, I’m relieved. He seems like a nice, quiet guy and not a jerk.

So it looks like Sienna Miller will be Curb’s Marisa Tomei—the dream gal our bald neurotic gets along smashingly with but whom he can’t have. I’ve never seen Miller look and act so alluring, and Ullman look and act so disgusting. Good job, writers and director. Since the Seinfeld echoes are particularly strong this…

You made me laugh. I thought of the Simpsons’ episode where Marge accidentally gets a boob job, and, addressing her concerns that Homer won’t like it, the surgeon sarcastically says yes, men don’t want women with big breasts.

It’s interesting his protege, Jeremy Strong, got crap for his very serious acting approach and staying in character—when he learned it from DDL, who, during his heyday, never got those criticisms, as far as I recall. How times have changed. Like I’ve heard the on-set stories about Lincoln, and talking to Day-Lewis off…

I didn’t read the second paragraph and kept replaying and pausing that kissing montage to see whether it was Deborah that Ava was hooking up with. I ship those two.