Exactly. That’s why I thought it was funny that the director was presenting this philosophy as if it was a new thing, while Judd Apatow had spent the last 10 years riding that formula to enormous success.

Was at least meant to be a Judd Apatow take. What Marvel movie could be described as “raunchy”?

“You can’t really have raunchiness and vulgarity unless it’s really warm. Unless there’s an emotional complexity to all the characters, then you don’t want to watch it.”

Didn’t Spielberg make Pale Horse already? The 11/2 movie?

This seems...inauspicious. The OJ series (which Murphy didn’t seem to have much input in beyond lending his name) worked, in my opinion, because it humanized characters on both the defense and prosecution, and didn’t feel like one side’s revenge for 20 years ago. I hope I’m wrong, but this feels more and more like it…

Probably unfair to say “only,” I just think that this is a pretty progressive group who likes everyone to see how progressive they are. On the margins, I’d guess that makes the praise more fulsome than it otherwise might be. Hardly the worst thing ever, but I don’t know that another comic with her extremely mixed (at…

I’m saying that in 2021, on a website that wants to showcase its progressive outlook, the “optics” of overly praising Tiffany Haddish seem pretty simple to me. That’s not say I don’t think she’s funny at all, but it feels more than a little heavy-handed when sites like these go out of their way to act like she’s the…

All due respect, you really don’t get the AV Club’s love for her? It’s 2021, and it’s an online discussion of pop culture.

Kids Say The Darndest Things (CBS, 8 p.m., season premiere): Tiffany Haddish returns to host season two of this reimagined version of the classic variety series of the same name.

Wouldn’t Olivia Rodrigo be in that category? Honestly, I don’t see what the issue is with getting people known from TikTok to perform music. It’s not like the songs are 15 seconds long.

You’ve never seen comedy since Trump got elected.

It’s funny how Studio 60, incredibly (and not positively, in my opinion), has started to look almost prescient for what a vocal segment of the SNL audience seems to want from comedy in this era—more about a self-important echoing of the “right” politics than something that actually makes them laugh.

Honestly, it might be. I have no idea.

I’ll be honest, I’m not sure what the target of the snark here is supposed to be. That Don John wasn’t actually good? That the show’s idea sounds unoriginal? That it’s a self-evident joke that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has “directorial flair”?

I’ve heard that argument before, but this would seem to imply that someone with the “right politics” might have been treated better if they had tweeted the exact same things, but that this was magnified outrage over a hire certain people already didn’t like. Sort of reinforces the idea that calling out tweets from a…

Sure, by definition, rebelling against the same set of things a second time will have a diminished impact, and of course the targets may have to change.

This is a losing game because every example can be dismissed with “it’s just an aberration, or that person is rich anyway,” but the Teen Vogue editor who lost her position over things she tweeted when in high school come to mind. Twitter’s only been around for so long, so 10 years will only have so many examples, but…

Maybe the punk movement itself doesn’t need to be repeated precisely as it happened, but I’d argue that people unafraid to move against groupthink are always important in art, pretentious as that may sound.

I wasn’t necessarily talking about them not bringing it back, more that the banishing of the show to obscure parts of the streaming service is in line with the general way they’ve treated the show in recent years, despite it running for 8 years, suggesting it knows (or at least feels) that it feels of a different time…

Is he wrong, though? If any network would be a little gun-shy about critical evaluations of what has “aged well” or hasn’t, it would be HBO. The network probably has turned away from it because that show isn’t considered cool anymore, fairly or unfairly (if Entourage is too offensive for you, I don’t know how you get…