I could actually see GLOW being the major argument against this claim, as it was cancelled pretty much because of COVID delays.  They were ready to do another season, but the nature of the show meant that a ton of people would have been in close contact in the early days of the pandemic.

It’s easy to judge a show a success or failure when you make the rules 

Whatever his teleprompter says 

That’s nice for Ridley. I know, cry me a river and all, but that Star Wars thing is a double-edged sword and I think actors really do want to act, try new roles, and just work, even if financially they might not desperately need it.

feminism as a brand. the spice girls got reamed for their ‘girl power’ brand back in the 90s, but...it seems almost revolutionary compared to the cynicism of the whole ‘girl boss’ fad.

You know how people online criticize a lot of people for “queer-baiting”? I’m surprised no one does that with Beyonce for “feminist-baiting” (sorry I couldn’t think of a fun word, maybe fem-baiting). She seems to approach feminism mostly as a girl-boss who uplifts female capitalistic success and sexuality, but seems…

This is where a place like the AV Club is still valuable, because god help you if you state an opinion like that under your own name on social media... Beyonce superfans are nuts.

Never again shall we see the like of Veronica Mars, Jane the Virgin, The Vampire Diaries, The OC. An era has truly passed.

I think it’s pretty shitty of them to nominate Ryan Kiera Armstrong. Haven’t seen the movie, I don’t care if she was terrible in it. She’s 12, she doesn’t deserve to be called out like this.

Yes musicians do stuff for money but someone with her wealth she could easily turn this down. The way if someone from, say, Trump 2024 called and asked me to do a job for them I’d turn it down. (Something similar happened to me in 2016 actually, and the amount I turned down was proportionally way more than Beyonce’s…

I can definitely hear every orchestral instrument of the score, but what the f are they saying? Did I miss an important plot point? One reason why I always watch with subtitles on (when available).

A bit tangential, but something to watch out for with HDR TVs is if they have “smart HDR” type features, they might try to apply it to actual HDR content and make a mess of it.

I don’t like the idea that it’s fine to make work less accessible to the poor.

You’re in luck, as we covered that very topic last November:

I would be happy with just a smaller dynamic range. Or rather, my wife who is trying to sleep in the bedroom would be happier if every 11 minutes the sound from the living room didn’t sound like a 747 landing for three minutes then gets super quiet again.

How about setting some industry standards so we don’t have to contantly fiddle with our tv settings?

Run this with an article about why dialogue is mixed too quiet and all other things are mixed too loud and I’m set for the day.

Annoying, but my bigger beef is with shit sound mixing. If you’re going to spend millions of dollars on a show or flick, light the fucking thing and mix the damned sound properly.

The article briefly mentions it, but compression is a massive part of the problem if not the main issue. It doesn’t matter how good the TV is or how dark the room is, if a show is streaming-only and every scene is dark browns and greys at night in a snowstorm, then it’s gonna look like a heatmap until someone leaks a…

I assume you mean “Doublemeat Palace”? I don’t get why people have a problem with it. If anything it seemed to be a return to the heights of early Buffy where the point was to use the monsters as analogies for real life problems (Willow naively agreeing to meet with a predator she met on an Internet chat room that…