Turns out HBO is also going to produce a prestige show called "the Negron Complex" with a guy named Paul Kinsey as the showrunner. Sounds intriguing!

I'll concede the "allow" portion- although you were arguing whether he/she said we shouldn't be allowed to hate it, rather than cannot be allowed to hate it.

Judging from your comment history, sounds exactly right.

Tessa Thompson >>> generic Aryan warrior woman. Plus we don't know what her personality will be like, it could be totally comics accurate.

Semantically I might have been incorrect, but the spirit of his comments were making fucked up value judgements on the lives and personal choices of others, so my comment stands.

Yep. My group of friends and I were definitely the kind of stupid white boys that made Dave Chappelle walk away from his show, because we'd repeat his bits verbatim :(

Seeing as you work for them, you'd know.

Same. He's perfectly cast in Black Hawk Down as a soldier who goes temporarily deaf because his buddy fired a gun too close to his ears.

Yep.

Sure, but that wasn't the argument I was addressing.

'this sounds bad. But can't we wait until it comes out before we hate it?"

In the form of the network making the show watching stuff he'd made in the past and using how he addressed issues, or those with strong parallels, to those addressed in the text of Handmaid's Tale? Yeah.

Well I haven't made it yet. Re: the comment above, people shouldn't hate it or tell me it's a bad idea prior to the show coming out.

Are you even reading what I'm writing? I'm not arguing whether or not the articles were right about the show, I'm arguing that bringing up these issues in a piece isn't somehow beyond the purview of a film critic.

"All this Hoopla"

Woozle Wuzzle? That's what passes for entertainment these days, Woozle Wuzzle? *walks off in disgust*

That's like 90% of South Park episodes in a nutshell.

It worked for that Ridley Scott movie about Moses!

The example I used was in reference specifically to the question of what a critic's job is or is not, that the original poster made. I'd argue that reporting on the problematic nature of a work in progress,the backlash said work already received on social media from members of the general public, and choosing to…

No, rather if the critic feels it's in the reader's interest to understand the context of who the filmmaker is and what he/she has done or is alleged to have done in the past, then they're still doing their job if they bring it up in the review or talk about how knowing this information might inform or bias the…