Right, use that soap opera music they use for Oscar Bluth hinting Buster is his son, cast against type, and be, “The part of George Bluth will now be played by Nathan Lane.” Hell, recast it every week, and do the same schtick. “The part of George Bluth will now be played by Ansel Elgort ... Ricky Fucking Schroeder...…

Exactly! His whole character has ALWAYS been on the sidelines and not integrated well into the cast. There is no need for him. They can reference him and have it work.

You know the part that’s the stupidest? Of all the shows in all the land, can you think of one that would make it easier to write out a major character? They could have fired Tambor, had a stand-in and done a running gag where you only saw him from behind. Or he was suddenly played by a different actor like Bewitched…

Alia Shawkat, a younger actor with less clout than Bateman was able to speak the truth in that same room when she said that behavior wasn’t acceptable.*

Ugh. Fuck all of them seriously. And it bothers me knowing they think they’re some of the good ones.

Exactly. To me it read like gaslighting.

Jeffrey Tambor is 73 FUCKING YEARS OLD! How much more damn time does he need in order to learn/grow into a person who behaves in a respectful and professional manner?

I think this interview will feel very familiar to any women that wants people to know what happened to them was not okay, but also feel pressured to go along to get along.

“Let me just say one thing that I just realized in this conversation...

EXACTLY THIS. Why are his feelings so much more important than hers, other than that she’s a woman?

Jessica Walter is a gift and she shouldn’t have to deal with this. How is it that she’s stating that she has NEVER been yelled at like that throughout her career, and everyone is blowing past it??

This part was rough to read too:

Bateman: “not to belittle it, not to excuse it”

Reading the way these guys dismiss the incident in front of their co-worker who clearly DOESN’T THINK IT WAS NOTHING is very discomfiting. I get loyalty, even misplaced loyalty, but they don’t seem to have any toward Walter.

Correct me if I’m wrong but this just leaves Arnet, who plays the worst of the brothers, as the only male actor on the show not to handwaive sexual assault and bullying.

I suggest you stop trying to believe that any man ever is. It makes life a hell of a lot easier.

It will be amazing if Jessica Walters threatens to leave the show! they are literally telling her how she should feel when this obviously awful guy who was kicked out of another show yelled at her. Let’s all admit, that show wouldn’t be half as funny if Jessica Walters left.

I KNOW. And apparently Amber has had no influence on David.

Dammit Jason, I thought you were one of the good ones