It could not figure out the kind of distance it must have between ironic detachment and emotional investment in its characters and situations, it could not figure out how to care for its audience, and it could not make its characters face even a satirical version of reality.

Shakespeare is a bad example for a copyright argument because most of his plays, including Romeo and Juliet, were sourced from earlier works. West Side Story also would almost certainly be considered transformative enough that it wouldn’t stand up to a claim - for example, Romeo and Juliet famously ends with the…

Envy still gives enough of a shit about Scott to spend an evening trying to make him jealous and let him know how great her life is without him, and the scene ends with him making her feel bad about herself because, again, she still inexplicably cares what he thinks about her. The film also kind of implies that Kim is…

“But public discourse has lowered us so that we now all just salivate for the next celebrity to slip up so they can be the object of hatred.”

The straw thing is especially dumb because the EVEN LEFTER take on plastic straws is that we shouldn’t ban then because some people with disabilities need them. They’re trying so hard to be assholes that they accidentally circle around to being disability rights advocates.

They wouldn’t fire the whole cast - they would sue them for breaking their contracts by refusing to perform. It wouldn’t be the best PR, but there are enough “well, they signed a legal document and Disney is within their rights to sue them” rule junkies out there that it wouldn’t be a bad publicity slam dunk for the…

Admittedly I’m a soft sell because I love all Halloweens, including the one where Busta Rhymes tries to use karate on Michael Meyers, but Jamie Lee Curtis being so passionate about Laurie and her role in this film is making me actually kind of excited to see it.

In a 2007 interview, Azaria acknowledged some of this criticism when he recalled a conversation with the writers of the show during the inception of the character: “Right away they were like ‘Can you do an Indian accent and how offensive can you make it?’ basically. I was like, ‘It’s not tremendously accurate. It’s a…

In Maryland where DaddyOFive lives, minor labor laws don’t apply to “work that is performed in a business that a parent of the minor or a person standing in place of the parent owns or operates.” Legislators are really wary of passing any laws that would diminish parents’ ability to control their children - like,…

What if the moose has also devoted its life to making sure the elderly are forced to cat food to survive?

Emily was wearing her brain-scanning hat when she died. If she was human then and is later a host, they could have used whatever data was stored in the hat to create her.

Serious question: are you wracked with guilt every time you stop watching a TV show?

It hasn’t existed since way longer than that. Most people don’t remember that Lizzie Borden was found not guilty in a court of law in a double murder. They remember that she took an axe and gave her father 40 whacks, and when she saw what she had done, she gave her mother 41. (They also don’t remember that it was…

Or “The Social Justice Warriors,” in which college kids try to effect social change but “can’t get anywhere because they’re constantly at war with each other over pronouns.” (A joke that might be older than the vast majority of the real SNL’s target demographic.)

Thank you! It’s sincerely bizarre to me that in 2018 people are like, “Well, they had to put the D in the V without protection during an apocalypse, what else could they possibly do?” The answer is, of course, “Lots of stuff.”

I find “If you really knew me, you’d know that I’m definitely not a racist/a homophobe/whatever despite my words/actions” to be a patently ridiculous defense both in this case and in general, because buddy: nobody really really knows the inside of anybody else’s heart so all we have to go by are words/actions, and…

I have some sympathy for her on that front because she accused her parents based on “recovered memory,” meaning she got manipulated by the therapeutic industry just like a bunch of other people who sought help and found brainwashing.

I mean part of her claim is that a Trump surrogate threatened her in front of her toddler daughter, so unless that was in her contract it kind of seems like she was at least a little wronged.

She was also in Big Little Lies and on the new Janelle Monae album, so she’s pretty on top of pop culture right now.

Television actors work on a contract. It’s up to the show to let him out of it or alter its terms.