Maybe she just needs to be paired with Bill Hader to be good.
Maybe she just needs to be paired with Bill Hader to be good.
Thank you! The problem isn't that we should be trying to pass the Bechdel Test, it's that most movies don't pass it.
I just started watching that on Hulu. I cannot believe they were allowed to get away with…well, with everything they did on that show.
As much as I adore Colbert, I can't pretend I wasn't a little disappointed about the late night shows just moving around their middle aged white guys…I wouldn't mind seeing 11:30 be another Daily Show spinoff led by one of the younger cohort, or someone new altogether.
Which is, according to what I'm pretty sure was at least one article around here, a large part of the reason it's such a good Christmas movie.
The only thing Drew Carey did bring was his Whose Line friends as occasional guests - Bob Barker was great, but you never had random improv interludes when he was the host.
I liked the Big John sketch much more now than I will when they inevitably run the character into the ground through endless, unnecessary repetition.
Oh god I tried to give Meyers a chance, but even when he has SNL friends on, his interviews still come off as painfully stilted and rehearsed. I get that he's only been doing this for a few months, but the guy is a parody of himself.
I just looked up that clip - he definitely has a knack for hosting, even if it's not in character. And when I've gone to see Colbert taping, he really does come off as a sweet, genuine guy. The thing is, while he's still quite good as himself, it's not something innovative and exciting and different like the character…
Okay, I walked into that one, but there's a difference between using a character's death to develop other characters and only doing it to female characters. I know it's a touchy topic because this is traditionally something mostly done to female characters, but considering that the first time Arrow did this, it was…
I agree - it's maddening to have to wait for them, but the wait is what makes the Before films so brilliant. I feel like if there was only a few years between them, they would still be quite good, but part of what makes them so extraordinary is that sense of time passing, both within and without the films.
There was supposed to be a sequel to that? Now I'm legitimately infuriated at something I did not know existed until 30 seconds ago.
Because it would have a pretty substantial emotional affect on a fairly large subsection of the main cast, and it would be a more productive use of her character than anything else they've done with her this season.
But that's the thing - normally, Community manages to avoid having its characters act like characters in a sitcom, unless it's doing something productive by having them act as characters in a sitcom, and they didn't really do either of those things here. I don't know, maybe I'm missing some super-hyper-post-meta…
I kind of like what they did in terms of killing Pierce off - it was a nice, appropriate cap to the character, and I wouldn't want to cheapen it by bringing him back for cameos. I'm okay with them just moving on.
I read that that was mostly Edward James Olmos, because he tended to take the dark and gritty part of method acting a little too far, but still, it ended up working fantastically on screen.
For some reason, I'd skipped that on my first watch-through, and so I only saw it for the first time a few weeks ago. My immediate reaction is that it gets passed over so frequently because there's nothing flashy about it - it's just a very good episode of Doctor Who. There is, of course, something to be said for…
If we're just talking about Tennant's performance, nothing beats "Midnight" for me, although I would never argue that it's the best episode of the new series or even of Tennant's run.
I definitely appreciate how they keep subverting all these tired, silly romantic tropes (like when Ollie tried to break up with Sara last week) - it's like, we're on the CW, but we don't have to act like it.
But that is an archetype that's had a lot of backlash recently - even New Girl had to step way back from their initial marketing when everyone reacted to it with virulent anti-MPDG. I'm not saying that it's not problematic that that remains a hugely underrepresented role, and there's obviously a need for more diverse…