This looks even stupider than Gotham, which was pretty damn stupid. And which I loved to death, I admit.

As a Stand fanatic living in Boulder, I would like to register my objections to this not being filmed on location.

A TV really isn’t big enough to appreciate the the climactic scene where Timothee Chalamet opens a series of portals and brings through dozens of characters from earlier Woody Allen movies to fight Liev Schreiber. 

Honestly, for a second there I thought “Constantin Film” was the name of the director and it sounded like the greatest name for a filmmaker ever. 

I feel like King Jude Law’s reign is not going so hot.

I think Christina’s going to have to replace those sheets. No way those are salvageable. 

I’ll confess, I’m interested in Carrey-as-Biden because it’s not at all an obvious choice. Like, if someone asked me which random celebrity SNL would get to play Biden, I’m pretty Jim Carrey wouldn’t have been one of my first 50 guesses. So I’m not really sure where he’s going with it, and that’s kind of interesting…

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a ridiculously good-looking man, which is why the header photo is proof that literally no one who isn’t Tom Selleck should have a moustache. 

This feels like one of those concepts where the core idea has legitimate potential, but you need to either make it a pitch black comedy or just go straight into thriller/horror territory. “Wacky, PG-13 comedy with Luke Wilson” seems like the worst of all possible worlds.

Honestly, I always thought that was the point of the scene -- you’re primed to think of the cartographers as silly doofs, and then they start talking and it turns out they’re totally right. Hell, that was the entire point of Big Block of Cheese Day. 

One of the annoying things about the 2016 election (not, like, the most annoying thing, obviously) is that the final result was close enough that basically any theory you might have about the cause of the outcome could, conceivably, be accurate.

I think the more nuanced take I saw a lot was not, “SNL’s impression of Hillary Clinton is why Trump was able to flip Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania,” but instead, “SNL’s Hillary Clinton impression played into a series of long-standing sexist tropes that decades ago defined Clinton in the minds of voters and…

I always try to be careful in these discussions, because there’s a lot of value to dense, difficult-to-read texts, and I don’t want to be the “big words bad” guy (and I know you’re not saying that either, to be clear). And I had a lot of fun in grad school — you sit in a room with people who are smarter than you are…

One of the few concretely useful skills I learned in grad school was the ability to distinguish between clever arguments and genuinely good arguments. Like, yes, OK, great job playing with words, but it doesn’t really get at the substance of the issue.

I was always kind of surprised that Jordana Spiro didn’t become a bigger deal. She did that Mob Doctor show that lasted about five minutes, then apparently vanished off the face of the Earth.

David Lynch to direct a Marvel movie, confirmed.

TV and movies are really turning me off strange festivals in picturesque, seemingly civilized Western European nations. 

My West Wing reboot pitch is to start it in the middle of a Republican administration’s first term — the night of the midterms, to be exact. A conservative Republican succeeded Santos after two successful terms and the GOP took full control of the House and Senate. But Democrats win back Congress in the midterms, and…

This was my reaction: The Mighty Gemstones, but take away the HBO prestige TV aspirations, the high-quality acting and Danny McBride’s genius with fucked up people. 

“Is that a kite in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”