“Venues being ugly”... I agree with you there. At least for some of the outdoor events, part of the enjoyment is watching the athletes move through beautiful winter scenery, like in the Alps, or Scandinavia.

Especially when they kept the camera on Shiffrin after her DQ, it felt unneeded and kinda cruel. “Here’s this person who just spent four years training and lost her best shot at a medal. Feel things now!”

They have them for ten more years or five Olympics, no matter how they do.

Yup. The way they manufacture a storyline for every athlete -- meaning only Americans, the other athletes of the world don’t exist -- like it’s reality TV is sickening.

“... the United States declining to send official representatives to China for the Games ”

So I have YoutubeTV and it is perfect for watching the olympics. You can watch the live broadcast, but you can also just tell it you want all of the sports at the Winter Olympics and it DVRs each one in its entirety and groups them each as their own thing. So you just pick what sport you want to watch and watch it,…

They’ve had the Olympics forever. How many more chances do they need?

With an Olympics coming every two years, the ability for most people to be able to stream any event live or on demand is still a relatively new thing.

My wife and I have tried to watch a couple of the full, four-hour events live on Peacock, but the real-time gets a little tedious because of the big gaps. Watching them on replay was much better because we could fast-forward through the non-action parts and we could skip around through some of the event.

Everything NBC does to show the Olympics is the wrong decision. If there’s a choice to make, and one can be right and the other wrong, then NBC can be counted on to make the wrong one.

The most exciting thing so far is wondering how the little Russian skater girl has managed to get a heart condition. WTF is going on in Russia these days anyway?

But, if Kanye boycotts Coachella, then it might be a good show where no one has to deal with his bullshit!  

Coachella now finds itself in a situation where it’s going to have to potentially choose between two of its three headliners

In most of the Midwest, $300k will buy you a pretty nice house to a very nice house.

When people oppose affordable housing, they often do it for reasons other than distaste for poorer people. Instead, they raise the kinds of concerns Chappelle is voicing here: the development is not consistent with the character of the neighborhood, or it won’t be aesthetically pleasing, or it will increase traffic,…

I don’t know if faith-based movies are the best examples, but the Academy does seem to occupy this weird middlebrow spot that isn’t a great reflection of either mainstream taste or serious critical love.

Like it’s understandable why they didn’t nominate the Spider-Man movie, far and away the biggest thing to come out…

I can remember watching the Oscars as a kid and really believing that it was important for this film to be judged more worthy than that one. I think most people figure out eventually that it can all be pretty arbitrary, and that’s when the air starts to leak out of the balloon.

right? like i’m a rare breed in that i genuinely like awards shows. i like the spectacle, the weird combinations of creatives, etc...but as an award show fan they’ve genuinely gotten worse, so i can only imagine how bad it looks to someone who doesn’t like them to begin with.

I wish they would stop trying to “modernize” the Oscars or whatever it is they’ve been doing the past few years to try to bring in new viewers. It’s never going to happen. Seth Rogen is right in the sense that you’re not going to make people who don’t care about the Oscars care. But for the people who do care — or at…

And yet, in the other thread about the oscars not requiring proof of vaccine, you’d think the people in the comments were all formally invited from how much they seem to care.