*obnoxiously rings bell in Surprise Puma’s face*

Robert Pattinson had a funny observation in a recent interview where he pointed out that actors only seem to go “method” when they’re playing an asshole and get to act like one. Like, you never see someone just being incredibly kind and generous because “I’m so deep into the character, you know?”

I chuckled pretty hard at the Social Network entry. Third-best movie of the decade, stunningly prescient, eminently quotable...and the only mention of the guy who wrote it is a glancing, denigratory blow.

This has been a thing for Dennis for a little while. He refused to say “Duolingo” when discussing the (brilliant) Kristen Stewart “learn to talk to children” sketch.

I appreciated the show trying to do something a little different with the political cold open, even if, as Perkins said, it didn’t quite land. Though Heidi Garnder’s fainting was pretty perfect.

Evil Lincoln having the screencap of this is the least-surprising development ever.

I’m glad Perkins highlighted Brent’s “I accomplished something!” moment, but I think it was important, on both a character and thematic level. I won’t be surprised if we find out that Brent’s book was, literally, the only thing he ever accomplished - that he skated through life on his dad’s name and knew it, even if…

Eleanor’s wall of Hottest Savior of the Week: mostly pictures of Eleanor, a few Jasons spliced in and, I believe, two pictures of Tahani. 

By most accounts she’s really great in this, which is unsurprising, I guess. 

Norton’s first film quoted John Updike’s observation about New Yorkers’ “secret belief that people living anywhere else had to be, in some sense, kidding.”

The limitations of my cis-het worldview are once again exposed.

Julie scoffs at the fact that her dad has erected a giant wall in order to lock humanity away from the outside world. I’d argue that a zombie apocalypse is the one scenario where that’s actually a justified response.

The extent to which some people insist on believing (or pretending to believe) that white privilege means “no white person has ever struggled before” is really something. 

“At least he’s stopped asking me to dinner to ‘talk about my career.’”

I live in Boulder, which is where about half of The Stand takes place. There’s a scene where the characters come across a church full of bodies, and the church is, like, two blocks from my apartment.

I must be pretty dense, because I think I still need to clarify this point. Is it accurate to simply describe this as a Watchmen sequel series? That seems to be what folks are describing, but no one just says that, so I’m curious if I’m misunderstanding something. 

And what happens when you ask Loggins if he’ll take the highway? 

Yeah, I came here to say exactly this. It whitewashes Scorsese’s comments to say that he just doesn’t like Marvel movies. He explicitly argued that they weren’t even movies (and the effort to establish any sort of real line between “movies” and “cinema” is nothing more than an exercise in intellectual preciousness…

I was a little disappointed they didn’t get Taylor Swift into a sketch. I know she’s not exactly the most popular figure ‘round these parts, but I thought she was shockingly good when she hosted a few years ago. 

Yeah, War Letters isn’t the sort of bit that earns plaudits from comedy critics - it’s a recurring sketch, it’s a pretty simple concept, it’s just a couple actors looking into the camera for a few minute. But it’s also consistently funny, which is sort of the whole point of the endeavor.