I totally disagree. I've always found the epilogue to be deceptively brutal. Just as David was created for Monica to assuage her grief, now at last Monica is called into being to assuage David's grief. Both find hollow, explicitly fleeting comfort in simulations. David's journey, thus, takes him right back to where he…

Hope Solo is the only person I can think of with a background at all comparable. I suppose you might count Brittney Griner as well, but her level of crossover fame isn't close to Solo and even SHE would be dwarfed by any of the male examples above.

"Not the same thing," seems like a rather dramatic understatement. Both examples you cite are women who are widely publicized pariahs who served prison sentences and now either live lives of anonymity, either by design or imposition. I'd hardly call that comparable to the male examples cited.

Easy. Owen Harper on Torchwood. In the first episode, he rapes a woman and it gets played as a gag. In spite of his character always being a sniveling jackass, pretty much EVERY woman in the show becomes enamored with him as if he's the sexiest thing in the universe. And, just to recap, this is Burn Freaking Gorman in…

None of this is true. But I guess that's par for the course with Trump's worthless supporters. The "ugly report" that the disabled reporter wrote was refuting Trump's blatant lie about having personally witnessed "thousands" of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks in New Jersey. Trump had tried to use his original…

Thing is, that was pretty close to actual events. Simpson DID threaten to kill himself in Kim's bedroom and Kardashian DID specifically mention it being Kim's bedroom as he begged Simpsons not to kill himself. Tho I did roll my eyes at the funeral shout out, but in retrospect that might have been meant to deal with…

C'mon. Crosby, Stills, & Nash have such a strong identity on their own at this point, that CSNY just becomes one great band with Neil Young guesting and that doesn't count as a supergroup.

Ya know, my first reaction to seeing that Ryan Reynolds was attached to this was disbelief, but it sort of would made sense. I mean, Walter Keane's whole schtick was being a gregarious asshole, and that's right in Reynolds' wheelhouse. If you're ever going to see Reynolds in a prestige pic, it would be playing an…

Yeah, that is certainly the smart money bet. Jackie Mason did pick up an Emmy for it and better to write him a send-off now than wait for… well, ya know. I can also see a solid story being written around that, so that's a point in its favor. Or not depending on your opinion of The Simpsons late-era writing.

Where did this myth of Walt as the smartest guy in the room come from? He's a Chemistry teacher, not Batman. Jesse was right that what Walt has really had going for him was luck. I can buy Walt convincing himself his abusive call with Skylar was somehow decent, but call me unconvinced. What we've been seeing a lot of…

Oh, bah. I'll concede that Voyage coverage would mostly be a bunch of nerds wallowing in negativity, the show isn't even remotely as bad as its haters insist. On the whole, I'd say what's most disappointing about Voyager is the always clear impression of how much of a better show it could have been. The complaint that…

Jarret Grode. As in Perry from Undeclared fame. Well, to me, anyway. I loved him on Undeclared and think he would have been really interesting in the Dwight role. Less likely to see him as a Beet farmer, though.

Christie Brinkley is actually 8 years older than Jim O'Heir, but 6 years younger than Jerry is supposed to be (though 64 is kind of a an improbable age for the actor, IMO). All to say, age-wise she's entirely plausible as Jerry's wife.

Christie Brinkley is actually 8 years older than Jim O'Heir, but 6 years younger than Jerry is supposed to be (though 64 is kind of a an improbable age for the actor, IMO). All to say, age-wise she's entirely plausible as Jerry's wife.

Its worth mentioning that Jerry Van Dyke wasn't exactly wrong there. Gilligan's Island only ran 3 seasons, just 2 more than My Mother the Car. Insofar as Gilligan's Island became a cultural phenomenon, it typecast Bob Denver for the rest of his career. Van Dyke still got steady work until Coach, which ran for 9…

Its worth mentioning that Jerry Van Dyke wasn't exactly wrong there. Gilligan's Island only ran 3 seasons, just 2 more than My Mother the Car. Insofar as Gilligan's Island became a cultural phenomenon, it typecast Bob Denver for the rest of his career. Van Dyke still got steady work until Coach, which ran for 9…

GI Joe made $150 million domestic and $150 oversees against a production budget of about $175 million. That was a bit of a disappointment, not a flop. Battleship is a modest success oversees, but an outright flop domestically. For gosh sakes, it opened lower than John Carter and it also cost $200+ million to make.…

GI Joe made $150 million domestic and $150 oversees against a production budget of about $175 million. That was a bit of a disappointment, not a flop. Battleship is a modest success oversees, but an outright flop domestically. For gosh sakes, it opened lower than John Carter and it also cost $200+ million to make.…

I thought on the podcast, the Harry Knowles show was mentioned as featuring a puppet of Harry Knowles, which makes an odd amount of sense.

Some people rail against things just to rail against things. Some rail against things because they see how it could be done better. Louis has always struck me as more the later and thus likely to be willing to put his money where his mouth is. We can all be armchair cynics know there is little consequences for losing…