Yeah that’s why I like Lynch’s version, it doesn’t really try to dig too deep into the philosophy and only brushes the ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ aspect because that’s super hard to show on screen. The Sci-fi version from a while back hewed much closer to the source material and was boring.

I’m not sure he’s the one to ask about formulaic films. 

(And yet it seems, at least judging from these comments, to be a very controversial statement.)

Can we please frame these as “Director is asked question by interviewer since interviewer knows that regardless of the answer it will get clicks”? And all things considered, that’s a pretty tame comment? He says some Marvel movies are formulaic, but he’s optimistic about the state of big budget pictures. And that’s…

I got the controversy around Scorsese’s comment in a “how do we define ‘art’ and ‘cinema’ anyway” sort of way, along with the general gatekeeper-y tone some people saw in it. But “the MCU is formulaic” is just about the most milquetoast criticism someone could possibly levy against it.

I found this show surprisingly a bit dated and was a bit disappointed. I thought we were getting some dark comedy, but it felt more like it was written for the Grace and Frankie and Kominsky Method crowd (which is fine, just find those shows a little yawn, although obviously they do well on netflix).

Women students still have implicit bias. So yes, it’s still a problem. 
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/20/fighting-gender-bias-student-evaluations-teaching-and-tenures-effect-instruction

I’d argue that part of the review is kinda wrong. Or certainly it’s not leaned into all that much—the main thing the older colleagues feel threatened by her is her age--because they helped “rise her up the ranks” they just assume she will be there to maintain the status quo.  There’s some issues around her colour and…

In five out of the six: I hate how they’re portraying the students, in that it seems like an older Gen X/elder millennial’s take on Gen Z, ignoring the same insufferable ‘crap’ every 17-24 year old has their part in. Granted, it might be me being suuuuper optimistic, but the ‘scandal’ feels like the fever dream of a…

White gay English PhD student here—so my experience is pretty different. (Also—Iknow this show is meant to be at a “minor” Ivy League school, as they say, whereas my experience is all with major Canadian universities).

As soon as I posted my comment I kinda regretted how I worded it. I definitely think it still would…

Black gay English professor here...it’s still a problem lol.

Yeah, I’m half way through the series, and only reading the review now but that doesn’t ring true *remotely*. And even the “older” profs in the department I was in would have written things like “Sex and the Novel”.

Yeah, we don’t need another hero.

It’s also a position that comes with no additional money, unless you happen to be at an R1 or very elite liberal arts school (which seems to be the setting for this show). At most places I’ve worked, chair is either a rotating position where everyone reluctantly takes their turn, or it’s a position the most ambitious…

Yeah. I have friends who teach. “Adjunct faculty” is the goto around here. All the responsibility, more work, less pay, less security.

“Can confirm, white boomer faculty are often just as bad as what’s described here. Petty, small, unwilling to look at things in new ways or believe that young or POC faculty have anything to contribute.” I can also confirm that boomer faculty had to deal with the same issues with older faculty when they started off…

There was a vulture article about the trend in white men this tv season that makes the Sandra Oh / Duplass dynamic seem so interesting. The review doesn’t mention it so I don’t know if it’s a spoiler (so stop reading if you care about that). But Jay Duplass’ character gets taken out of context doing a Seig Heil in…

I’m an adjunct, so not quite who this show is about—I’ve never had an office, let alone a nice one. In my experience, the department chair is always reluctantly in the position, and pretty happy about it when they can be replaced by the next person.

Also, not to be bitter, but there are more adjuncts than tenured…

Right, it’s strange that every single faculty member in the show has tenure or is tenure-track!

“promoted to Chair of the English Department”