Especially because there are Asian Jews and it would have been extremely cool to see a Jew of Color depicted on screen.

Burying the lede here, Charles!

Given that the sole source for this is Radio Free Asia, which is explicitly an organ of US foreign policy, and that 99.5% of Squid Game hammers the point that life in South Korea is such hell that the contestants would rather play the Game, this “news” has me cocking multiple eyebrows.

Imagine being CBS and caping this hard not just for Bull the tv show but also Michael Weatherly your “leading man”. Dude’s claim to fame was being, what, the fifth or sixth most interesting actor on NCIS? And CBS has decided that he’s worth all this? You could just write him off the show and bring in his long lost…

Hair broke open Broadway for rock musicals about 30 years prior to Rent. Grease, Rocky Horror, Little Shop, among others, all carried that torch forward as successful and/or influential productions. Broadway audiences were not unfamiliar with rock music when Rent arrived.

How? He cribbed the story from La Boheme, it wasn’t the first rock musical, it wasn’t the first musical to feature queer characters (or even queer characters of color), it wasn’t the first musical about “artists in NY”...

It was massively successful, yes, and inescapable for a few years, but there’s nothing about the…

lmao he did no such thing.

I liked Squid Game! I’d probably give it a 7.5/10—it peaked once the players made the decision to return to the game. Some great performances and fantastic production design; writing was weak at times. But a Season 2 will clearly be centered on Gi-Hun as a hero, taking on the evil, sadistic men behind the competition—t…

In damning self-indictment, creator of tv show that critiques capitalism sacrifices artistic integrity for wheelbarrows of cash.

But you do adjudicate other people’s lives through sound bites on social media. Got it.

So glad to see Happy Endings make the list. That show still doesn’t get enough love.

tbh this sums up Eternals as well as anything:

tbh I felt like the show’s “message” was actually undermined by many of its characters.

Like, Sang-Woo is a victim of his own greed more than capitalism writ large: he stole money from his clients to make risky bets, and put up his mother’s business & home as collateral. You can say that capitalism encourages this kind…

I really want to meet someone who cared so much about Cara Dune as a character that they’d foresake a Rangers of the New Republic series if it didn’t have her in it. And I don’t mean a Nazi who likes the character because of their reactionary political fealty to Gina Carano. I mean someone who legitimately believes…

Courts will often pressure the parties in a civil suit to reach a settlement (or seek arbitration) because they’re over-burdened and know the lawsuit could take a while to resolve.

Maybe they will stay on as Bachelorette hosts? While Jesse Palmer will only do The Bachelor? Agreed that Tayshia and Kaitlyn were very good in the role.

I was worried as soon as the production photos came out, and this trailer just makes me worry more. The vibe/atmosphere is so off. Everything is brightly lit. Translating the stylized movement of animation to live-action was always going to be one of the biggest challenges, but at least they could use lighting and…

idk I think firing a man who privately advised his brother, a public official, on how to navigate his own sexual misconduct scandal, while refusing to report on said scandal because it would be a conflict of interest (not that that stopped him from bringing said brother on his show when Andrew’s approval ratings were…

yeah I mean Dogfight pretty explicitly condemns the behavior of the men at “the dogfight” and has its male lead regret his participation and apologize for it... You can think that Rose is too forgiving, but she’s given plenty of agency by the writers to make that decision for herself—she doesn’t exist solely to…

It would be a mistake to do so, and she would likely lose. She’s much better off challenging Gillibrand. Schumer is Senate Majority Leader and has tacked significantly to a progressive position (on domestic politics). If AOC wins, the new Senate Majority Leader is...Dick Durbin? Patty Murray? Mark Warner??? That’s not…