Gillian Jacobs just barely holding it together at the end is always my very part of the clip.

Yeah, that’s what I was here to comment on. That seems like an...iffy writing decision?

I never understand why so many fabulously rich people are so thin-skinned and defensive. It always seemed to me that one of the advantages to staggering generational wealth is that you don’t have to care what anyone thinks.

My big issue with Deathloop was that it had become pretty easy by the time I got around to putting together the final loop. Once you have the capacity to retain the weapons and various upgrades that you like between loops, you basically become a chainsaw tearing through tissue paper. Which is reasonably fun when…

She was great in that movie, — she’s great in everything, essentially — but I was constantly distracted by her presence there. She just didn’t seem like she belonged in that grimy, lo-fi universe. It would have been appropriate if Clerks II had been shot entirely in black and white, like the first one, except for…

This was my precise criticism of the show, particularly the last few episodes. If you want to do the alternate history/fable/happy ending thing, fine, I’m happy to go along with that. But make it at least a little difficult, you know? Oh no, the movie is burned...but there’s already a copy! It breaks box office…

Ryan Murphy’s Netflix show Hollywood is pretty much this? It’s basically an alternate history fable of post-war Hollywood, where a movie about a black woman wins all the Oscars, breaks box office records and single-handedly destroys segregation in the South, while gay relationships — initially shunned — end up being…

Hot damn that is a good trailer.

The actual line is “between her piss flaps.” Which, no, still isn’t great. On the other hand, Tobolowsky’s very earnest and straight-faced response, “No, that’s not where they keep those” was quite funny. 

One of the things I found striking about Severance is that Adam Scott is a pretty good-looking guy, but through of combination of lighting, makeup and Scott’s performance, the show managed to make him look not just unattractive, but even vaguely grotesque at certain points. Not the most substantive analysis, I know,…

This is something I’ve been sort of mulling over as well. Saul seems more actively miserable in his exile than Kim, who looks like she has just completely severed herself from her past life and utterly smothered her emotions. You kind of get the sense that she would have kept it up with little stress for another 35…

I loved the tiny gag of Gene/Jimmy/Saul/The Shadow jumping the gun on the chorus a few lines too early. 

God save us if bad guys ever realize that they shouldn’t gently toss their victims to the side when they have those victims by the throat, helplessly thrashing about while they desperately try to find a little bit of air. 

I’m about 100 hours into Elden Ring, and I’m similarly enjoying it, even though I have, historically, been an at-best reluctant tolerator of FromSoft games. It’s addictive, which I’ve never found the previous Soulsborne games to be.

I’m always kind of fascinated when pure lowest common denominator, family-friendly pablum manages to stumble on a premise that would fit perfectly in a subversive, arty, “fuck the man” movie. Like, a diabetic woman can’t afford insulin because of the fucked-up nature of American society, so she’s forced into a…

I continue to think that the whole idea of a blood feud between Scorsese and Marvel fans is wildly overwrought. Scorsese basically said Marvel movies weren’t movies. A bunch of people disagreed with him — some loudly, some unnecessarily rudely, but that’s life in the NFL. No one tried to cancel Scorsese. No one tried…

I also routinely get him and Patrick Fabian confused, which made that an amusing bit of casting for me.

King does the annoying “both sides” thing with Insomnia, where you have the obnoxious pro-choice activist parachuting in from out of town for her own glory vs. a pro-life man who was driven crazy by grief and possessed by the overarching supernatural villain. That sort of set up makes for a better story (well,…

That is some blunt, on-the-nose dialogue, huh?

I recall an episode where someone stole an Egyptian mummy that was on display at the casino and the crack security team had to steal it back in a daring robbery of a moving truck.