Agree, I thought Darjeerling Limited and Life Aquatic were both great

haha

I think American Horror Story has slowly gone off the rails to the point where plot is secondary to the batshit insanity and that's not a good thing.

wow, so one interesting thing I picked up from that is that he had a ridiculously short amount of time to do the footage and did anyone notice that it was 6 pm on Saturday afternoon when they started editing and they still were tweaking it at 11:30 pm? this guy also said he hadn't slept for days. Oh man, tell me OHSA…

I feel like this Wes Anderson parody has gotten more love than Anderson's films as of lately. Besides Moonrise Kingdom, most of his films since Royal Tenenbaums haven't made much of a critical splash and I think they're all very good

the show is too silly to make me care about romance between characters.

OK, very basic question here, but why do you guys watch the show if you hate it so much? I've been on these boards and IMDB's boards for a long time and have rarely witnessed people hating a show so much and continue to watch it.

The problem with all this complaining is that there won't be another opening on the cast for a while anyway and I hope all discussions on SNL aren't hijacked by this issue. It's not like he can or should fire anyone just to put a black woman on the cast. He's currently at 16 and 6 women which are both very high…

my point exactly!

As I told captcha reader, I've lost track of what we're debating here. That the character is or isn't gay or that the sketch is or isn't good?

I'm aware of the Kinsey scale if that's what you're asking, but 1) I don't think there's any classification in the entire Kinsey institute for a guy who's straight for the next two years, 2) this is a comedy sketch, not a serious expose on the nature of sexuality. I think we're just supposed to assume he's gay or at…

ironically, studio 60 had an Asian cast member on the show-within-a-show. maybe they should hire her?

there's not an overwhelming need to hire a black guy if that's what you're asking.

80% of comments about SNL is someone saying it's not as good as it used to be. It's not off-limits, it's just repetitive and irrelevant from a critical standpoint IMO. Why judge this cast against one from 20 years ago?

It's also worth noting that 1993-1994 (when McKean joined) and 1994-1995 (when McKinney, Gorafolo, and Elliott) joined were pretty desperate times in terms of cast turnover. Carvey left in 92 (I think) and Hartman left in 93, plus Mike Meyers left midseason 94-95 and Lorne probably had a feeling he was going to let…

these are good questions, gotta go, gonna get back to you lateron this though

I remember it was a very conscious thing in the 1984-1985 cast and the 1985-1986 cast, I think it just sort of worked out that way. I think in 1994-1995 it was more out of desperation, Mike Myers had quit mid-season, Dana Carvey needed to be replaced, Phil Hartman had gone, Lorne probably knew that he was going to let…

wait upon rethinking this, I think he would be classified as being repressed if he's trying to date girls, wouldn't you say?..and yes, that factors into the angle about Taran feeling uncomfortable with his choices.

valid point. For the record, I'm not pissed at you for this discussion because I'm enjoying this discussion, I just didn't want to have to rewatch that awful sketch to have to dig up that line, anyways. I still think the sketch failed because it could have either been about Taran's character being uncomfortable with…

Not since the 1980s has anyone done that and the pay scale is lower today relative to what it was back then and hours are brutal. The closest thing to a downgrade in recent years was Amy Poehler and she wasn't as famous as Azziz is now.