These are all problems too. There's also a depressing amount of recycling involved, with the same writers of crappy movies getting scripts greenlit. Writing is this country's film and TV industries' biggest problems, and they haven't figured out how to fix it. It's not that we can't make handsome-looking films, and…

Let's just say that Bela Tarr called it "bloated".

Or Rob Schneider's from what feels like forever ago.

There are a host of reasons why this would be, chief among which is that the film had a tiny distributor here (Umbrella, a solid but small distrib whose main focus is home entertainment) and therefore a very small marketing budget. Then there's the exhibitors, who are the real shits in all of this, who won't book a…

Obviously success in this context is to scale. Look at Debra Granik. Look at Courtney Hunt. Recognised films with Oscar nominations, and they end up waiting 4 years and 7 years respectively between projects (and the former's is a documentary in which the subject is someone who worked on her previous feature).

Even successful female directors struggle to get films off the ground. It is no small factor in this equation. If you can't see that you're lying to yourself.

Yeah that definitely feels like an element designed for the cheap seats.

It's also commendably smart about race, class and gender, which is very rarely something you can say about a multi-cam sitcom.

This isn't bad news. It's a good show.

To be fair, Australia's movie-going public does that with every Australian film now.

Or you could wait three days and pay to watch the independently produced debut feature from a female director instead of being an asshole and making an already difficult career more difficult for her.

This is such a weird post! It makes no sense! Enlightened was cancelled after two seasons. The Comeback was cancelled a decade ago and brought back. The Newsroom is ending after this season. Literally all of the shows you mentioned are or were "pay channel shit".

This song is so imprinted in my memory. "Thank you Providence" drifts into my mind at least once a week.

How would this be racist, since it's not actually what the show was doing?

I'd ignore it, this kind of blinkered pomposity is pretty par for the course from him.

Only a handful of upvotes given he misspelled Tai.

Well, for a start, lesbians exist. And I assure you that a dick pressed against your butt is a more than adequate substitute.

It is a war crime that we're still getting new Mulaney episodes but are without Bob's Burgers AGAIN.

One of the many reasons why homosexuality is superior: equal opportunity spooning.

She was great in Childrens Hospital. Actually, she was great on Desperate Housewives, too.