I get that.

I’ll echo the sentiments of others, that nepotism will only get you so far before you get sidelined. Did Maya Hawke have help getting her foot in the door? Absolutely. But she’s also done the work, and has the drive, and few would argue that doesn’t have incredible ability and camera presence. Compare to, say, Chet…

I would definitely agree with this.

There is nothing more exhausting then people acting like nepotism is something that only effects “elites”.

Rumer Willis

I thought Once Upon a Time in Hollywood purposefully cast a bunch of nepo babies for the Manson family? Kevin Smith’s daughter, Andie Macdowell’s daughter... thought there were others too?

I have to admit though reading Palin’s diaries sometimes he comments on things Idle wants them to do or thinks they should do from a business standpoint and a part of me is like “bestie, he sounds right.”

Michael Palin’s diaries are really eye opening to how things were within the group and notably, Eric Idle was always very focused on the business side to the point of the others failing to recognize why that mattered so much (and he’s not wrong, tbh, but you can tell the others are either not happy with compromising…

Cleese is like Chevy Chase...it’s funny he’s an asshole but it’s also not really an act.  Eric Idle has always been too obsessed with famous people and money.  Gilliam has always been crazy and irresponsible.  Chapman was always a huge superior asshole.  Terry Jones was always a tyrant.  And Michael Palin was always…

In the words of Raylan Givens, if you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.

Cleese appears to be an egotistical bigot, while Idle seems like a cranky bastard who apparently has issues with every other living member of the troupe.  Shocking that this apparently made for a tense working environment.

Whatever my feelings about present day Cleese or Idle, it’s not exactly a secret that the Python gang has always had multiple internal tensions. I mean, Cleese has spent 40 years complaining about the drama around his final season of Flying Circus and The Meaning of Life.

“it’s a whole other thing to have one of said inhabitants roaming around the tundra nude and newly thawed from a human iceberg.”

“Those Old Scientists” was an utter triumph for both the Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks cast members involved 

The choice in “Deer Lady” to render the boarding school staff’s language as guttural nonsense was brilliant. A bunch of furious nuns screaming at you in some incomprehensible language really added a lot to how alien and horrifying this must have felt.

Okay but ‘Those Old Scientists’ and ‘Subspace Rhapsody’ are legitimately two of the greatest episodes Star Trek has ever done.

The Tesseract was affecting everyone it came into contact with in Avengers, which is why there was so much bickering on the helicarrier and why Loki is so much more of a dick than usual.  Once they took the Tesseract from him he mellowed a tad.  Thats my take anyway.

“but he’s an entirely different character than he was in any of the movies.”

I recommended The Bear to a friend who had once worked in and around kitchens for years... His response after finishing three episodes? “Thanks. You’ve just reactivated my PTSD.”

Deer Lady was astounding. I love how there is still some mystery to what is happening at the boarding school, since we are seeing it mostly through the eyes of young Deer Lady, but the general outlines of the inhuman abuse are clear even if you don’t want to believe it. I love that Deer Lady is the mystical avenging…