As a teenager I did the same Batman to the Last Crusade thing Tom Breihan references and I found the Last Crusade stayed with me far more and was far better than Batman

I was 16 when I saw this in 1989 and had a similar though also in many ways different reaction to this film and the huge pop cultural phenomenon it was. There are some good posts later about the power and ubiquity if this movie’s marketing campaign but I think they all point to a big part of why this movie was such an…

I love Lorde but Bob the Drag Queen agrees with you.

Also the writing for the scripted ones is generally terrible.

No one’s ever done such a nasty and petty lipstick message before though. I thought it was classless and it made me like Thorgy less

I explicitly said she’s not a monster. I’m not saying she’s not a “nice person.” I’m saying she’s playing the game in a very political, calculated way which is frustrating in some ways to watch. Someone brought up Jinx always seemed to have a heart and soul to her that Bendela doesn’t.

Why? Because the purpose of the show is entertainment and that would b e more entertaining. And seeing how she tripped over her tongue made it clear she was trying to find the perfect political answer. That’s the definition of contrived. Ben is clearly fine with speaking badly on others. That’s clear from the talking…

I don’t dislike Bendela but I do find her very calculating and contrived this season. Shangela was write to call her out for stalling and hemming and hawing when asked the simple question of why she chose the person she chose to be sent home. It seems like Ben is studiously, and very obviously, avoiding getting near…

They have no chemistry. Perkins, on this and many other scores, is simply delusional.

I actually disagree with your take on this particular episode but complete agree with you on Perkins’ reviews. His assessments are just completely random. It’s not even worth trying to make sense of them.

Not denying that this happened to you (I mean I have no way of knowing) but I am suggesting that this is an extremely atypical experience and a bizarre reason to write off basketball as a whole. Furthermore, other sports are way dirtier by that logic. In football (soccer), American football and baseball you need to be…

Trixie is great because she’s incredibly witty and smart but not in a way that would ever win a competition like this. She has a more low key appeal that’s perfect for her web series and TV show and her talking heads on RPDR are great, but she’s not a big and broad enough character to excel in this competition.

You realize that serious competitive basketball is played indoors on a wooden court that’s frequently cleaned right? Even playing outdoors on asphalt and similar surfaces the ball getting dirty isn’t really an issue. You don’t play on dirt courts.

They are but there’s just no scenario where someone who grew up in Senegal and then lived in Australia would talk like he grew up in Des Moines, Iowa

If someone learns English as a second language while still speaking their native language for the most part yes it’s likely that they will end up with an accent similar to what the source material they used spoke with. However, if someone moves to an English-speaking country and starts speaking the language the…

I noticed the lack of ticker tape for the others as well. I rationalized it as perhaps they’re just running one simulation/or not simulation at a time so they can pay attention to it fully and keep track of what’s happening. Also, because even as clever as Michael Schur and the other writers are they couldn’t find a…

But if you lived in Australia for awhile you’d pick up an Australian accent

Yes, but he should at least speak English with an Australian accent as opposed to perfectly flat midwestern American accent he uses. Does he even have any connection to the US?

Yeah I like Perkins’s recaps of “The Good Place” but I’ve long since given up on having any understanding of his SNL recaps. His opinions are so random they seem to be based on nothing more than how his most recent meal agreed with him. I’m not talking about the grade, but the actual content of the reviews. Anyone who…

Also absurd. In recent years most SNL music guests are huge stars who are at the top of the charts. You might not personally like them or have heard of them but that doesn’t make them “second tier”. I don’t like country but I know Chris Stapleton is a huge country music star.