I feel like post Precious, the only time I see Monique in news stories is when she’s outraged by not getting something she insists she should have gotten (money for movie promotions, movie roles in general after Precious, any role in Lee Daniels films, the leading part in Empire). Can probably figure that publicly…

I think, by and large, we see this come up when networks genuinely ARE the ones in charge of the shows. Aside from the pay networks like HBO and Showtime, the prestige shows of the last decade have been financed by production companies, and then sold to networks. But in the last couple of years (Walking Dead was…

Keep in mind in 2000 the internet itself was still mainly something nerds did. Pre-Facebook, MySpace, or YouTube, blowing up on the internet meant being passed around emails and bulletin boards. It was definitely an internet phenomenon, but internet was a much more limited medium back then.

I think All Your Base Belong to Us pre-dates both, that’s probably my first memory of a “viral” video.

This times a billion.

Breitbart loves this sketch too, because they see it as acknowledging, no kidding, Trump’s “communication jujitsu” and acceding to his undeniable economic success. So there’s that...

I was thinking movie within a movie too, but was leaning towards some kind of Kenny Powers/Eastbound & Down return.

Maybe the show has always done this and I never noticed because I usually stream it, but I was surprised that the show did a critical, plot defining moment it what is essentially the after-show tag.

I found it fair, since the show had him framing it in regard to them about to meet the judge. His behavior prior to this was always him getting through a situation. His behavior here was specifically in regards to meeting someone who is about to evaluate his behavior, and him framing the lying in that respect (what if…

600,000*3.2 million = .3% of US military budget

I can’t count the amount of times I thought something would curb some shallow instincts or tendencies of people, only for me to find my thoughts were not only wrong, but thy were wildly wrong, and that the inciting incident seemed to push people farther in the direction I thought we wouldn’t go. I am finding that…

This man is doing God’s work...or...god, fate, time...whatever’s work.

This term is pretty exclusive to twitter, clearly these guys just did a search for trending hashtags and thought this was phrase was funny. Macquarie Dictionary should have its dictionariatarians license revoked for this kind of unabashed laziness.

Just pointing out that FCC decency rules don’t apply to programming after 10PM, so there won’t be any fines for using shithole. It was the NBC censors, not the FCC, that was trying to curb the swear word, and that’s rooted in trying to maintain happy affiliates and sponsors, and I’m guessing the conversation with the…

And not that I don’t recognize pay inequity is a big deal, but sheesh, you kind of wish the writer of the article could have done the same research you did (which I’m guessing was a simple google search). They could still have written a gossipy article about the subject, but instead of framing it as naive helpless…

“I always thought I was in the military.” [Trump] said that in prep school he received more military training than most actual soldiers did.

Just from listening to interviews, I think its no small part due to how strongly each felt about the cause of the reshoots.  Wahlberg talks about how he was shooting another movie, was underweight for that role, was busy with lots of family because of holidays, etc. You really get the impression he had to be convinced…

“But, apart from the traffic jam opening musical number, there’s nothing musically memorable about “Haw-Haw Land” at all”

Did the headline accidentally add a zero after the 2? I’m guessing it’s meant to say 2 versions of the same character right, not 20?

I think it’s clear that while Stiles really wanted to import the show, no one on the US side had a lot of faith us audiences would get it, so things that were fun little side jokes on the British show had to be explicitly made clear on the US show (THIS IS A JOKE). I always figured  that that was why there was…