The hyperbolic headline and butchering of the original quote sure makes it sound like full episodes were going to be filmed vertically (which makes no sense for the tv viewing public), when in reality hbo was proposing short “mini” episodes filmed vertically.

Okay as the pirate historian, this game is bizarre. The opening narration talks about capitalism and mega corporations, which doesn’t fit. Its set in 1695, East India Company is around but its not a global monster yet, and mercentalism is the dominate economic style, Adam Smith isn’t even born until 1723.

I mean, this makes perfect sense. A guy who wildly mistreats women but is loved by hardcore franchise fans and a country that wildly mistreats women but is loved by hardcore franchise fans.

The private performing is still bad but understandable. There are some people who just like hanging out with Putin, though. Or they used to.

I hear that they were not happy with the fact that Johnny drank thousands of dollars of wine a month but they bonded over their hatred of women. 

All he had to do was not be so fucking obvious, and he would’ve been fine in the current Republican caucus. But this was a grift with no art or finesse. And the lies were on par with, “He claimed to have invented the question mark."

Cloud Atlas erasure!

Dude, this is all terribly negative, looks fun to me...also do not make the mistake of thinking a Brit couldn’t possibly work out your terribly complex culture, because, like, it isn’t. I do share your curiosity as to why the hell Texas and California could possibly find in common tho...”We have the most votes in the…

I recently watched Garland’s Devs which was wildly underrated; I figured if it had Nick Offerman, it had to be good, and I was right. I extend the same benefit of the doubt toward this, which will probably be great too.

He’s excellent in the show Julia, playing Julia’s diplomat/spy husband. It’s an interesting character that is completely different from Niles, aside from fondness for fine food and wine. And Pierce convincingly plays straight, though though the romance is between a long married couple. So Pierce is still working in…

I was confused on that whole discussion in the article. I mean it’s certainly a cost-saving “strategy,” but it’s also just common sense. I’m surprised it even got a mention because anyone would have already assumed that they filmed the sinking last because why would you destroy your entire set on the first day of…

Short extras don’t eat as much from craft services - this is a no brainer.

Scott did the same thing on Alien. From Wiki:

Right.  Otherwise, there’s a risk that the last few contestants agree (either openly or secretly) to share the prize money, destroying the tension and drama of the end of the show.  Lots of people would take a 100 percent chance of getting $500,000 over a 50 percent chance of getting $1 million.

I like how the key takeaway from Netflix from the dystopian show about people dying in a reality competition was “Hey this was popular, let’s make it a real show!”

Did you mistaken SNL with this site?

What I got out of a more in depth article is that the contracts on the core cast had run through and there wasn’t enough what have you (ratings, cultural cache, whatever) to justify signing another season or seasons worth.

The best part of Miracle Workers is watching a bunch of fun actors having a hell of a time with each other.

I’ll be honest - while I enjoyed Miracle Workers, it always kind of baffled me that it ran for four seasons. It feels like a “we should be happy for what we got” situation. 

I say this with the disclaimer that I have not watched the whole special so maybe the whole thing is way worse than that one joke but... I don’t think it’s that bad. Like, okay, the dude told an offensive joke, wowsers. He’s far from the first and I’m sure he’ll be far from the last to do “blue” material. Hell, I…