I enjoy the unapologetic horniness of the Ivy-Harley relationship (Harley wearing a chastity belt while Ivy was away on business is the kind of thing you don’t really expect to see on a TV show), but the Serious Relationship Issues are getting pretty repetitive. 

I enjoy the unspoken joke of a guy who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger  going through life pretending to be an unassuming software salesman and everyone just buys it.

Yeah, it’s easy to make fun of Jost for his...Jostiness, and he and Che were pretty rough early in their tenure. But they’ve become genuinely quite good, and the joke swap is a really inspired bit — Che’s genuine terror when Jost made him read jokes mocking Kendrick Lamar was sublime, for example.

I thought Saltburn was fine. Reading Wikipedia’s totally serious, straight-faced description of Saltburn’s plot? A+ experience.

Huh. Harrison Ford kind of looks like he gives a damn.

I like going to the movies, so, selfishly, I hope theaters survive. But I think audiences have made pretty clear that there are really only a handful of movies per year that they’re willing to pay for a full theatrical experience to see. And I don’t think that makes them assholes or philistines.

Yeah, it would be easy for him to play Aegon as another Joffrey, but it’s a much subtler performance -- I particularly like those little looks he gives in small council meetings where he suddenly understands the point they’re trying to explain to him and he’s clearly embarrassed that he had said something stupid…

I like how Alicent is now completely done with trying to hide her contempt for Aegon. “And what ideas would you have?”

I am curious how you say “Tesseract” in Lakota.

You know, it occurs to me that I’m struggling to imagine Costner playing goofy, buffoonish comedy. Costner’s “brand” is so closely associated with a kind of rugged American masculinity, the stereotypical “strong, silent type” that it’s difficult to picture him as, well, funny.

One of the ironies of The Difficulty Discourse is that Elden Ring is From Soft’s greatest game in large part because they made a handful of small compromises that resulted in a much less frustrating, hair-tearing experience while maintaining their overall design philosophy. The Stakes of Marika, sites of grace often…

“Havana” is a genuinely pretty great pop song.

Fair enough.

Every time YouTube suggests a Yellowstone clip for me the title is something like “John Dutton schools an environmentalist” or “John Dutton forces bikers to dig their own graves.” Is the actual show more nuanced than that, or was it just Costner playing an effortlessly cool, tough, macho cowboy badass?

So is Hall playing a United States Senator? I don’t have a ton of regard for the US Senate, but it’s amusing to imagine any of those guys running a small town violent criminal racket in their spare time.

What’s even the point of this movie if it doesn’t feature explicit sex scenes between Jodie Comer and Austin Butler?

However, this is still a story that requires many scenes to be set in rooms,

*quietly at first, the words barely comprehensible*

Ghost who died in 1948 arguing with a ghost who died in 2020 about whether Ted Williams was better than David Ortiz.

Some of the standouts include Sterling’s steadfast lackey Andy Roeser (Billions’ Kelly AuCoin),