25 years on, I think Spacey’s offscreen behavior is not the most problematic thing about American Beauty

The Aristocrats!

And here I was expecting her climactic improv to be when she shouted, “Fuck me, your majesty!” to the Mattress King.

Yeah it was really funny re: Bobby being given such a short shrift. Like essentially if you go on Queer Eye the real prize is a fucking 5-figure home renovation lol. Everything else is gravy.

Some of these dynamics aren’t that shocking—it was clear pretty much by season 2 or 3 that the “best friends” thing was a schtick. They’re coworkers. And that’s fine! Sometimes coworkers get petty. Not particularly shocked that JVN is all drama and not as sunny off screen, but it’s disappointing to hear how bad it…

If you are ever in Washington, you can read the saying on the IRS building itself — “Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society”. As for companies blocking the IRS from making filing taxes easy/automatic (the way they are in nearly every other country), yes, H&R Block does play a role, but far more so the problem…

They’re not evil. The price of living in a civilized society is paying for infrastructure and services for the public good. The IRS is the service set up to ensure the payments are made. If we lived in a country where H&R Block did NOT have Congress by the testicles, the IRS would do your taxes for you (they already…

Just millimeters away from being a solid sovereign citizen.

The character was deeply despised. First they were hideously self-centered and obnoxious. (Who smokes a joint in a closed elevator? Who seduces—loudly—their employee’s friend the next room over from where said friend is sleeping and recuperating from surgery?) Second, Miranda’s involvement with Che torched her…

You mean when it was the embodiment of blinkered, insular white privilege? It’s almost like you don’t want the show to be constantly apologizing for being the version that people actually liked.

No kidding. I was under the impression that she was a very disliked character on the show anyway. Maybe the writers/producers decided that they could get rid of a disliked character whose story-line had come to a natural (it seems) conclusion and then move on with the characters that the viewers did/do like. Why look…

Could it be about her Pro-Palestinian posts? Maybe. Could it be the fact that people hated the character and last season people kept saying “why is Che still on the show?” Probably more likely.

Everytime I think I’ve seen the most Herzogian statement, he breaks his own record. I will never tire of this man

it’s not clear to us whether Herzog is offering a qualitative assessment of Gerwig’s movie, or genuinely speaking to its neon pink depiction of Barbieland, a world in which ostensibly happy “people” play out basic routines with no capacity for understanding any of the ennui or despair clawing at the edges of…

Would’ve been nice if they had let McCoy pay his respects to the Claire Kincaid Memorial Speedbump one last time...

Just hearing they are foregoing CGi and using practical effects was music to my ears....Tim Burton can be hit or miss and 80s legacy sequels over 20 years can be terrible ( Coming 2 America, Indy Jones....I take it back, Top Gun was pretty good , again they also used practical effects instead of a CGI fest so now I’m…

It may be great, it may be terrible, but not calling it Beetledeuce will always bother me.

Part of me was hoping she’d be super pink and pastel. Go against type, complain about her lame goth mom running around in all-black like she’s stage crew.

Nope.

Sadly Pugh fares worst out of this quartet since her part is small and the character ends up being just a forgettable plot convenience.