I was actually kind of fooled for a bit by Tom’s “performance” there at the end, because he seemed so genuinely concerned and surprised after entering the room. It went, “Oh, Tom betrayed them. That’s cold. Oh, wait, he seems pretty befuddled. Guess I misread that.”

I’ll take a bit of a victory lap for this comment from last week’s review:

Based on this site’s piece on the sequel, I grabbed Darkest Dungeon a month or so back. I’m enjoying it, but it doesn’t really feel like I’m making any actual progress -- I end up doing four or five short dungeons just to set myself up for one shot at a longer quest dungeon. But it is surprisingly fun. Don’t imagine…

I can’t say this movie looks all that interesting to me, and Amazon is one of the only streaming services I don’t subscribe to, so there’s a good chance I won’t see this. But it does seem like Sorkin has reached the point where his approval rating with critics is somewhere south of chlamydia, and he’s become such a…

She has a surprisingly detailed description of the mechanics in this clip:

I only ever watch clips of the show on YouTube, but I watch a ton of those, and it’s striking how consistently hilarious they are. The Graham Norton Show is where I found out that Kate Beckinsale is apparently a total weirdo who drags along a horse costume everywhere she goes and just wears it out and about…

I loved how the reporter was able to get these huge names on the record talking about how weird Strong was. Cox and Culkin? Sure, they work with him, they’re on the same show, it makes sense you’d talk to them about this guy. But they managed to get Aaron Sorkin and Robert Downey Jr. for one sentence each, apparently…

For as much great acting as there was in this episode, I don’t know if there was a better moment than Justine Lupe’s shocked/appalled high-pitched “Ooh” when Connor dropped to one knee.

In the biography written by Tim Satchell, Astaire: The Definitive Biography, it’s said there’s a clause in his will that he cannot be portrayed in films. It’s unclear how the film will skirt honoring Astaire and his family’s wishes.

I wonder if this is all leading up to a final season where all the Roy kids find themselves alienated from Logan and on the same side, trying to take down their dad. It would be pretty thematically appropriate for this show to end with Logan utterly victorious but completely alone, having completely destroyed his…

My sense of Kendall has always been that the tragedy of his character is that he almost has a lot of good traits. He’s almost smart. He’s almost tech savvy. He’s almost cunning. He almost has real business sense. I wouldn’t say he’s almost a good person, but I think at a lot of different points he walks right up to…

*progressive, anti-racist Jewish person makes a point about occasional tolerance of anti-Semitism in progressive, anti-racist circles*

I mean, he absolutely would be better than Abbott. At the very least I imagine McConaughey would be cool with letting Austin introduce a mask mandate instead of literally making it illegal.

It does kind of feel like this season is leading up to Shiv getting her own “Kendall season two finale fuck you dad” moment, though you wonder if they’re just going to repeat that beat. 

I’m trying to decide how I feel about Roman’s recent turn. You can’t rightly say it’s out of character — he was basically introduced as The Worst Roy back in the pilot, and he’s always been an asshole. But I was really impressed at how the show built from that point so that Roman was still a crude asshole, yes, but…

The Martian.

I did think it was kind of fascinating how The Shape of Water, because it was up against Call Me By Your Name, Get Out and Lady Bird, kind of became the “conventional,” boring choice in the various Oscar discourses going around at the time. Like, the number of critics whose tone suggested, “Oh, ho hum, once again the…

Guillermo del Toro is awesome, Cate Blanchett might be our greatest working actress and it looks like this is going to be suffused with Art Deco gorgeousness, so I am all in. 

I was really impressed when she hosted...I was going to say “a few years ago,” but it’s probably the better part of a decade ago at this point. Anyway, I thought she was great then, and I’ve been surprised she hasn’t done it again since. Maybe she just decided it was too much work, which I can certainly understand. 

I thought Maslany said the She-Hulk thing wasn’t happening? Did an actor lie to me?!