He’s right, and also not the first person to say it. I wasn’t offended by the exclusion, it was a creative choice, and there’s plenty out there for those of us who want to know about the Japanese experience. I was deeply irritated by the Barbenheimer marketing mash-up - it felt incredibly disrespectful.

I sort of find myself wondering how much of this is being encouraged because Marvel knows there are a core of “fans” who they’ll lose, so they amplify their mutterings in the expectation that those of us who stand in opposition to all the manospheric whining will support them even more to compensate. I mean they’ve…

Tbh I sort of suspected from the first episode that Charlie might come from an affluent background. Something about the way her face reacted when Sterling was talking about being born into money and assuming she wouldn’t understand Quite likely maybe that the level of bullshit circulating at those lofty heights were…

I get where she’s coming from. If she wants to try to negotiate for what she thinks she’s worth, all power to her. Having said that, I gave up on The Good Wife during season 2, her character just didn’t interest me much, I always preferred Diane. I love The Good Fight, however, it’s got, by dint of being a streaming…

This was a mismatch exacerbated by intense observation, attention and speculation. An insecure, needy girl marries into an emotionally repressed family. If this had happened in a normal family it would likely not have ended in such spectacular tragedy. My mum and dad weren’t suited but got married because he got her…

Reality TV is just the modern equivalent of travelling circuses and freakshows. Same appetite for strange, different medium.

Just because he has money, doesn’t mean he doesn’t also want to deprive her of some of her money, as well as doing anything he can to exert some control over her. There is an argument to be had over whether he should be allowed to be a parent to any children at all, given the behaviour he has exhibited thus far in his…

The horrifically racist past was also filled with delicate ladies who preferred to ignore what was happening all around them. Their delicate sensibilities did not make the world better. People facing the evil for what it was and standing against it did that.

It’s very convenient, isn’t it, for the people in charge to keep us all so divided? The world is undergoing a seismic change, and facing many, many problems, most of which the people in charge haven’t got the first clue how to even try to solve without becoming unelectable, so they take the easy way out and have us…

Reducing every Trump voter to the average does both you and them a disservice. The concept of the “average” anything is only a small part of the whole picture. A lot of them are arseholes, sure. But that doesn’t give you an excuse to ignore all the non-aresholes, or those who are instinctively behaving like arseholes…

I didn’t get the impression that employee-host relations were frowned upon due to ethical concerns. I assumed it was part of the same set of protocols that keep the hosts naked while in the labs - they’re not human, they don’t have rights, modesty, feelings - having sex with them, “consensual” or not, might cause…

I suspect he isn’t actually as unhappy as you might think - I reckon this is his attempt to look serious and Presidential. Do you think he has pitched a special season of The Apprentice where he auditions various annoying wannabes for jobs in the West Wing?

I went to a girls only school in the 80's, was a bit weird, pretty tomboyish, and assumed to be gay by pretty much all the other delightful young ladies in my year. Having “Lezzer!” shouted at you on a daily basis wasn’t the exclusive privilege of gay kids, although I assume it’s much more hurtful as a slur if you…

Correction: The actress in (5) The Girl With All The Gifts is Gemma Arterton, not Atherton :-)

Oh, men are full of drama too, just in a different way. She just knows how to make that work for her.What she probably means is that she can’t manipulate her female colleagues in the same way.

In Europe it IS gonna be a Netflix show, so that might explain it.

I don’t think the world is getting dumber as much as the dumb are getting louder.

I’ve seen a few episodes now, a mixed bag, some great moments, but her interview skills leave a lot to be desired unless it’s one of her friends and they’re just having a chat. If it’s someone inclined to ramble, like Pitbull, or someone a bit nervous and stilted like Chadwick Boseman, she needs to learn how to keep…

Gonna have to take a pass on following that link due to Daily Mail hatred.

They’re much more subtle stories than the Sookie Stackhouse books, the supernatural elements are hinted at rather than right there in the open because of the secretive nature of the town’s population. They’re also more ensemble pieces, Manfred is the reader pov character as the incomer but he’s not the main…