I just loved this series, for some reason. A little sad that it’s a one-and-done because of how well I thought it came together (please, no bolted-on sequels!), but otherwise really really happy with the end product. People like the reviewer claim the genre-switching is somehow bad, but as someone who paid attention…

The I-Land: Neil Labute, acclaimed playwright and director of that insane Wicker Man remake, will serve as writer, director, and showrunner of the series seven episodes which follows 10 people who “wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are or how they got there” before discovering that “this world…

The irony here, to me, is that India is also... wait for it... in Asia! Staying close to the word’s origin would still have resulted in diversity. Instead, we have the “exotic Asian lady” trope just dumped in front of us, and it’s wrong. 

I’m no Adam Driver fan (his face always makes me think of that Community joke, “like if God spilled a person”), but that was cute. 

“the reign of the middle-age white man is over.”

Vermont is garbage. It’s 95% white population is garbage. It’s junior Senator is garbage. There are 7 counties in my state with bigger populations than that rural white shithole. 

I think “Shazbot” is the most appropriate term, for both of them.

Umm, no, “square off against” and “just a week after” are not synonymous concepts. For a second, I actually got excited at the idea of two rival studios pitting their movies against each other during the same weekend, the way it was done back in my childhood (late 30s here). I can still remember when Hollywood would…

You know like showing up once to states you need to win when you did not even win the primary?

Moore is one of those “progressive” shitheels who seem contractually obligated to blame every evil thing that Republicans have ever pulled off on the Democrats in the minority who are, through the will of the electorate and the basic math of majorities, too powerless to stop them. Fuck him, forever.

The computers were all green-on-black old school versions, and now that I think about it, I can’t recall seeing anyone use a phone that didn’t have a cord on it. And the scenes of people smoking indoors all evoked a sense of “period piece” without directly addressing it. Yet some of the other concepts involved, like…

Both Variety and IndieWire are trying to figure out what happened, presenting reasonably viable theories like 11/9 being too “confrontational” and not hopeful enough, the general public being sick of Michael Moore’s whole shtick, and the news cycle already moving so quickly that any anti-Trump documentary feels kind…

Right? She’s claiming that crimes were committed, and that she has evidence of said crimes, but won’t let anyone see it, and to take her word. That’s not how the rule of law works, lady. 

Nope. The court of public opinion may be full of people like you who will probably believe anything that confirms to your pre-existing biases, but courts of law still require evidence. 

in response to a statement from Ellison’s daughter- who is 1) not privy to the entirety of their relationship; and 2) clearly not an objective observer.

I loved Snorri.

GRTA didn’t fall in love until after the “safety net” was added, i.e. after having taken all of the original McMurphys. Dr Fujita explicitly said that there had been no new McMurphys since it was added, and that it was several months after the addition that Muramoto and GRTA began their affair.

When she tells GRTA “You’re always gonna feel this way. You’re just going to have to figure out how to adjust around it” as a way of helping the AI get over her dead lover, she’s baldly stating the “lesson” of this plot, without much to explain how she came to the conclusion—and Emma Stone’s performance makes it work…

I believe (but could be wrong) that McMurphys are those test subjects who have accepted GRTA’s offer to deny reality and remain in a comatose state under her control, the way that Annie almost did. The name is a reference to Jack Nicholson’s character Randle McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, who was a man…