These bits are extremely funny. And it's fascinating to understand better how Clickhole does it.

Christ, I hate Michael Pitt. What a shitbag and terrible actor.

"But alas, there were those little morsels of serialized story just beneath the surface."

Completely agree about the first conversation with Sovereign on Virmire. "You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it." Chilling.

Bottom line is the Oscars were never about being "fair" so I don't think it was ever about race.

Jordan pretty clearly deserved a nomination over both Redmayne and Damon, but that isn't even the point. It goes really far beyond any one year's nominations, and indeed, the point was always broader than the Oscars specifically—that was just a convenient focus point.

This is an extremely weak strawman.

Incorrect. The classic "Double Deuce" (That's a lot of scalps!) takes that honor.

Yuuuup. Sorry, man.

I did not come up with that delightful nickname, but I did notice that he was trash on that show and has no discernible acting talent.

Also, Paris and Doyle were not a "cute" pairing. Doyle is, to quote a wiser person, "the human version of a male anglerfish, a seriously stunted … parasitic creature that cannot survive on its own and must glom onto a healthy female in order to cheat death."

Maybe. It seems too early in the season for either of them to get fired, but Breaking Bad never paced plot as expected, so maybe Better Call Saul won't either.

Nah, I think it was realistic. He was thrilled with Jimmy so long as he was bringing in clients and making no waves, but putting out a TV commercial without clearing it with his boss demonstrates his recklessness and poor judgment.

People in Washington are so desperate to make their lives seem sexy or dramatic that they will promote the fuck out of trash like this.

Right, talk is cheap. If you mean it, stop doing it.

Right, he kind of behaves like a dick and lets her take the blame for some things that aren't her fault, but he doesn't just go along with the later accusations against her, either. Overall, he's weak; despite his firm (and very bad) decision at the beginning to lead his family into the wilderness, once there he…

Yes, I agree. There may have been a way to sustain the tension after that early reveal, but the film didn't find it. As I said in the review thread, it was a story about a family being destroyed by a malevolent outside force that flirted with being a story about a family torn apart by religious hysteria, but the…

I'm in the same boat. I just think the story was pretty weak. Certainly the setting, period details, and score were all great, but the story fails to build tension over time—it's just a succession of bad things happening to this family.

Right, I think Eggers is more rolling with the feminist interpretations. I don't see them as present in the text of the film. Thomason is not liberated by the events of the film, she is harrowed and driven to despair.

Do you mean to limit this to biopics, or…? Because a lot of comedies and romances are about normal people, and the problem is that movies like that tend not to star black people.