It sounds like this movie shares some DNA with Kelly Link’s short story “Magic For Beginners.” Interested to see how they treat similar themes. 

I don’t know the Tik-tok specific meaning of twee, but it generally refers to stuff that’s sort of kitschily cozy or quaint. Teapot collections, needlepoint samplers with sayings about home, Thomas Kincaid scenes, etc.

For all the talk of Westerns, what I see here is a Biblical epic. So far, Boba’s backstory is pure Joseph—he’s left to die in a desert pit, but escapes, is stripped of his Amazing Technicolor armor, enslaved by a nomadic tribe and eventually proves his worth to a chieftain. Couple all that with the episode title from…

So weird to see the alt-right demagogue played by the guy who played Prior Walter in Angels in America. Lent him a kind of perverse intensity tho.

Finally saw it. Two thoughts:

In all fairness, the subways in the Spider-Man movies mostly make no sense either. 🤷‍♂️

So how’d Cap’s shield and Thor’s hammer end up in the Collector’s weapons cache? Looks like, absent Black Panther, the Avengers were destroyed?

I see what you did here.

Dang, you’re right!

This is a great show, with a cast and crew doing first rate work, and I hope it doesn’t get screwed because its creator is a garbage human being. It deserves an audience and the chance to grow.

Man, I really liked Revolution. Fun characters, great worldbuilding and a nice sense of dread.

I’m a 49 year old from Queens. I disagree with your take on his films, but that’s neither here nor there; I’m trying to deal with the likelihood of his being a monster. When someone’s work was important to you, and there’s even a drop of ambiguity about an accusation, you cling to that ambiguity for a way out, but fro…

I’m a New Yorker too, and that’s very much not my experience. There’s plenty to criticize in his provincial vision of NYC as the connective tissue between Zabars, Elaines and the Met, but the Manhattan poster and its romantic view of the city is as iconic as Steinberg’s “View of the World From 9th Avenue.”

But for millions of people of a different age or temperament it was absolutely formative—especially his 70's and 80's stuff. What Fellini was for Rome, or Godard for Paris, he was for NYC.

There was a Twitter thread some time ago about the best New York movies, and people were tying themselves in knots to avoid saying Annie Hall and Manhattan. 

I love this show, and/but it’s heartbreaking. Just devastating.

Pshht. Sounds like an Aldi’s.

I forgot how nuts he was that season!😂

Hydra Bath has a real “Tahiti” vibe.

I read The Stand for the first time a few years ago, and mostly loved the hell out of it, except for some of King’s dated, if well-intended, attitudes towards gender and race. Interested to see if they try updating their approach while staying true to the book’s spirit.