Checking in, another 5 years after this comment, to say that Marcia Gay Harden’s character now approximates about 49% of our congress. How’s it looking in 2028, next commenter?

It’s possible I was always this kind of person and the last several years simply ripped the band-aid off. That’s for a therapist to unpack.

Also for some weird reason, it felt like teenage Rhaenyra had more going on behind her eyes, and would be capable of some pretty cunning leadership one day. Adult Rhaenyra just looks exhausted.

The only thing I can think of is their presence as a psychotic, violent, armed force may stop some would-be criminals from doing something, for fear they might get caught? It’s only preventative...otherwise, they’re just there to protect property for the rich.

I think Trump could have taken them down if they had any soul, any scruples at all. Instead, once it was clear he was trouncing all their candidates onstage and had all the heat in the primary season, they threw in completely with him, prepared to bathe the country in as much bloodshed as necessary if it meant…

Oh he definitely salivated over it, maybe just as a “bit” but it was delivered in a way that conveyed “oh he’ll never win, but I love how he’s just taking the whole party down with him.” To be fair, there was a lot of lib gloating about that back in the day. Poor instincts.

She wouldn’t have had anything good to say anyway - one of the major reasons Trump won was that the vast, vast swathe of the country that is deeply white supremacist, deeply misogynistic, and deeply fucking stupid decided they wouldn’t be condescended to anymore. They figured out the final trick after sweeping up the…

Trailers back then were a whole different vibe. I kind of like how innocent and un-slick they used to be. Characters just explaining to camera what’s going on and why, narrators talking non-stop about who’s in it and what to expect...and my favorite part, entire goddamn chunks of scenes!

He’s too close to Eric Wareheim for it to work

Yeah, I mean, Daniel Radcliffe went on to really stretch and improve, and now he’s one of our more interesting stars...but any accomplished actor at Rickman’s level would have seen this gig as daycare back then.

Feels like the Hawaiian setting was extremely important to the fabric of the entire show, but maybe that’s just why it popped for me in the first place. I guess you can tell stories about awful rich people anywhere.

Yep, instead that movie only altered the brains of a specific crop of dudes who post online, and we can’t help but look at these basic fucking Wikipedia-summary biopics through that lens...while everyone else who makes these movies ultra-successful are simply thinking “I like it when the singer sings the songs I like.…

I get this rant because, of all the live-action Disney remakes they’ve churned out, only The Jungle Book had flickers of invention and character. The rest are dull, paper-thin simulacra of the cartoons that inspired them - with the worst offender being The Lion King, a hauntingly lifeless, achingly useless brand…

There used to be a writer here, Sean O’Neal, who kind of kickstarted the whole trend (but was very good at it).

That’s usually what scathing reviews are for, you’ll often find a critic who hates a movie so much that they stop giving a shit and spoil everything.

Yeah, if we’re counting only the first 3 seasons of AD, it bangs so hard that almost no show can remotely compete from that era.

Like, I don’t mean to be another person reducing the accomplishments of a talented artist to petty relationship bullshit, but this all seems like a major push to get Taylor a short film Oscar so she can look directly at Jake in the audience and say “ooooh, you want one of these don’t you?”

I think she works about as hard as any supermodel from the 2000s did; that is, she’s vastly overpaid compared to some of the brutal jobs that don’t pay nearly enough in this country, but a) capitalism is not her fault and b) despite how comparatively easy it must be, it’s still probably harder work than it looks.

And let’s be real, Harvey only got justice because he was such an undeniable asshole to so many powerful people that they refused to circle the wagons when the time came. That’s the real lesson other creeps learned: Don’t overdo it like Harv. Know who to scream at, know who to abuse.

This is how it always starts. Someone in the comments going “honestly this ending do be slappin tho” (they’re 16). Then before you know it, they’re 25 and it’s suddenly a “classic.”