yup, agree. I felt the length of the season opener much more than this episode.

Agree!

Favorite jokes was an underplayed one too. It was Beard matter-of-factly telling Ted that his girlfriend is still threatened by how close they are and Ted just accepting it like they’d clearly talked about it before. 

“But maybe I’m selling this episode short”

I don’t think they’re trying to establish Nate has a mental illness. He’s just supposed to be the ‘quiet guy gone bad’ character, whose lack of reinforcement and support when he was young combined with his inferiority complex causes him to lash out. The visceral reaction to Nate’s heel turn in S2 I think was partially…

As long as Rebecca is shown to be a boss-lady rather than chasing dick, i will be pleased. Series two was too schmaltzy. Plus Colin has to be gay.

Oh so that’s what happens when the Academy honors films audiences actually watched.  

“Midseason Finale” are two of the most annoying words in television.

Twitter is of course furious that anyone beat Angela Bassett because social media needs a villain and most of them have only seen MCU movies, but I thought this was the best Oscars ceremony in years. Just a wonderful, positive night throughout, and the first time I can remember that my favorite movie of the year won…

Perfect finale. Really loved it. They nailed all the beats.

Right?! It’s not like we don’t have three years worth of recent fucking history to draw on here to enlighten us about how humanity would act. I actually thought that was one of unspoken but really resonant parts of the episode. 

Who’d have thought Encino Man would turn out to be such an Oscar factory?

I LOVED how emotional Ariana DeBose got when announcing Ke Huy Quan as the winner. It was like she was representing all of us rooting for him.

“Welcome... to Giraffic Park.”

The movie is okay. Way heavy handed, structurally feels like a play the whole time. But, Fraser does an excellent job. As does Hong Chau. Its nominations were exactly the only good things about it. Far from Aronofsky’s best work. And I think Colin Farrell gave the better performance. Just glad Austin Butler didn’t win.

Every time Ellie and Joel encounter humanity, there was nothing worth saving. Bill wrote it in his letter. Humanity isn’t worth the sacrifice. But some humans are.

yah, comparatively I think Colin Farrell in The Batman was a far superior prosthetic transformation if that’s what the voters were going off of

Love the symbolic choice of using Ashley for the mother. 

Every movie, you say?

It’s been said, but Adam Driver really does look like someone tried to draw Keanu Reeves from memory. That picture is just a stretched out John Wick but with a goatee instead of a patchy beard.