Man, this is sad. My father had TCM on nonstop in the hospital a few months ago as he withered and died slowly. My last memories are riffing on movies with him and telling Orson Welles jokes. It was so great to hear his laugh a few final times. He sure loved his TCM!

Please keep your hands off this one, Zaslav.  TCM is one of the rare remaining cable channels that still feels like it still has a unique identity, that isn’t the usual slop of original programming, reality/competition shows, and reruns.  

These clips look ‘interesting’ to me but I feel like the colour palette is a little desaturated or washed out because of the effects. To me this doesn’t look like Pokemon to me, it looks like a sprite based “Pokemon Remake in Unreal Engine 5" equivalent.

you know i saw an article or a post about this earlier this week. surprisingly, people were not that receptive. i guess they thought the cartoony style pokemon is known for didn’t mesh well with the “realistic” aspects of the graphics. I personally like this style and think more games could be made that utilize it.…

So just to be clear: we're supposed to hate Jason Sudeikis because of a report from a former nanny that both he and Olivia Wilde denied was true, and also because a process server did their job? Even for present-day AV Club, this is a shockingly bad take.

It does look like they’re leaning into him being old, not just “OK, let’s pretend this is just Indie...but he’s slightly middle-aged.” It does look fun.

Plus I’m getting some Operation Paperclip vibes from Mads...

So, your standard for not being a transphobe is “wrote a gay character who didn’t groom his students.” Sounds about right.

“So tired of people labeling JK a transphobe”

The transphobic trolls are really triggered by this one.

You may be the first person I’ve heard say that.

Exactly. In the context of the show, Bill and Frank had the happiest possible ending: dying on their own terms, in their own bed, at an old age, in eachother’s arms, after one last perfect day together.

It actively drives me crazy how misused Bury Your Gays gets used by wokescolds online, especially as someone who makes and consumes a lot of queer-themed horror work. 

I loved when Bill giggles in pure joy at the taste of the strawberry.

Bartlett was quoted in an EW interview that was posted after the episode aired that it was (I’m paraphrasing a bit) like having this big, sprawling, incredible horror/sci-fi story and then just dropping a beautiful Sundance film in the middle of it. Highly accurate.

I brought this up here with House of the Dragon and the discourse around, anyone who thinks gay characters dying = the “bury your gays” trope needs to read The Celluloid Closet or watch the equaling good documentary based on it.

While “bury your gays” exists as far back as works of 18th Century literature, it was coined…

As a queer person, I didn’t read it as a Bury Your Gays at all – they didn’t die because of homophobic brutality or tragedy, they died because they were old and content, it’s really the most beautiful, sweet, and sad episode of TV I’ve seen in a long time.

“Arby’s didn’t have free lunch; it was a restaurant.” First legit LOL line of the season.

Because they purchased them. Follow the money. 

He’s had so, so many chances of “okay, here’s the point where I clean up my act and have a mid/late career recovery”, but he just can’t help being an asshole. I guess the “I am who I am and I don’t give a shit anymore what anyone else thinks” and just bow out of even trying anymore is his final form.