Why would anyone want to ask Tom Cruise about Scientology? It’s not like he’s going to tell you anything you don’t know, and there’s always the chance that he’ll start talking and won’t stop. It’s like walking up to a used car salesman and telling them that you have $15,000 saved up and don’t know what to spend it on.

Compared to the road she was on in, say, 1988, I’d say “Hot mess in 2023" is maybe the best possible outcome anyone could’ve predicted.

Star-Lord makes a semen joke. Drax rips a guy’s cybernetic brain out of his head. Groot impales a ton of people. Ronan is introduced bathing in the blood of a guy whose skull is crushed ceremoniously.

There are so many good Italian places in and around Brooklyn, though!

Even Leon character finds it cringey, and that’s what saved it for me. He very specifically makes sure it never goes beyond platonic because he knows it’s wrong. Which is more than can be said for the director, a fact I only learned much later in life.

Honestly it’s been very striking how dismissive people have been toward Egyptian reactions to this in every single article. Like there is absolutely racism and antiblackness in North Africa, at the same time it seems remarkably shitty to lump Egyptians who push back about the portrayal of their own history in with…

Very much so. I didn’t start eating spicy or actually flavorful stuff until I went to college.

academic discussion of ancient history

Egyptians have always been both African and Mediterranean, like the Amazigh people of Northwest Africa. “African” doesn’t mean “has a skin color Americans would identify as ‘black.’” It’s absolutely wild that the director doesn’t understand this.

“Why do some people need Cleopatra to be white?” the show’s director, Tina Gharavi, wrote in an op-ed piece defending the casting in Variety online last month. “Perhaps it’s not just that I’ve directed a series that portrays Cleopatra as Black, but that I have asked Egyptians to see themselves as Africans, and they…

I said she was raised on Depression era cooking. Because my grandmother, who learned how to cook when she was a kid during the Depression, raised my mother on Depression era cooking, so my mother never ate garlic and still says that bell peppers are too spicy.

But their food is so terrible, and their cocktails are diabetes bombs.

That shit is coveted as fuck

Don’t go crazy! Certainly the finger traps and coveted egg trays are adequate compensation for all.

I’d rather they just keep Severance shut down until the strike is resolved. It sounds like they’ve been having a hard time settling on a direction for the story, which makes sense given how wide open everything was blown in that first season finale, and it’s much better for them to work through those story issues…

Give the writers a waffle party! 

Guy who hasn’t written anything in years supports writers refusing to write.
I guess this checks out.

“For the most part that strike was really good, but it got kind of boring in the last third. If it had been like 20% shorter it would have been one of the all time great strikes.”

No matter how long the strike lasts, it still won’t feel as long as a Judd Apatow movie.  

What a bunch of thin-skinned babies. I support their cause, but the idea that the script for a Netflix Addams Family revival is so sacrosanct that the star should be shamed for altering it is stupid. Writers are important, but bad writing exists.