Norm, forever and always.

It's mostly an off taste in material, and collaborators too. He can be not just a fun presence but also a great actor, as The World's End showed, provided the material is up-to-snuff and he has a great director in place.

I never saw that but people told me Man Up was good and it was awful, so I'm not willing to trust anyone's opinion but my own on his shitty indie films.

Anytime Pegg makes an indie film without Edgar Wright, it's not just terrible but actively offensive. He really should fire his agent.

So true. I can't imagine being a kid and wanting an action figure of either of those dull leads.

My significant other was watching one of those housewives show last night and some scene had a party with a klezmer band playing, while those horrible women continued to argue in the background. I explained that while I try to be patient with these shows, did someone on set decide that the show was somehow not shrill…

Yes, all the Ocean's Twelve rioting. But point taken - people hate this sort of thing, and I usually do too, but I thought it could have worked in this overly media-saturated futurescape.

It might have been too-meta for some people, but an interesting solution for me would have been if the corporation dictated that she be designed in the likeness of the famous mid-2000s movie actress Scarlett Johanson.

Good point. I do think the fact that he looks so normal helps make the insane characters even more fun.

They should call the sequel Not Mother? and cast Steve Martin.

I don't love the movie but all credit to him for telling something that epic and ambitious in just a little over 90 minutes.

I knew Daly from podcasts so that definitely sparked my interest, but this only really shared the darkness and a bit of the absurdity that he usually brings in that medium.

Ok, sorry, it gently yanks my laugh stick.

It's going to be an all-time top 5 TV comedy for me. I can't remember the last time I watched a half-hour show that captured my own comedic sensibility so well.

Holy shit, Ree-Yees!

He also seems to be a fan of genre stuff that puts emphasis on its design. I mean, we all kind of are, but he's more so, and often more forgiving of other flaws.

“We may have to file FOIA requests. We may have to buy browsing data for Congressional office building ZIP codes and then p-hack our way to statistical significance in an attempt to fish spurious correlations out of unreliable datasets, but we’ve done it before.”

He probably knew and it's not like he was the only rock star of his era to do this.

That last line confirms what I suspected from only reading about Serra's work - conceptually intriguing but utterly dreadful to sit through.

More importantly, puppies and kittens don't grow up to become…people.