In HBO executives’ defense, they thought that a black bar should be voiced by an African American.

On a side note, I’m particularly annoyed that they lied about not having to kill any dogs except by choice. They intentionally made a misery simulator; why lie about that little detail? The misleading marketing is really baffling to me.

I wish we were capable enough as a society to hold both the thoughts in our heads that 1) the sketch is specifically making a mockery out of the person wearing blackface and is not meant to condone the act and 2) still, maybe let’s just stop it with the blackface. It can be both. We can deal in subtlety and empathy.

Hey remember when Jon Hamm did blackface for the 30 Rock Live show? I thought it was funny, and even meaningful that the whole point of the sketch is that the network was scared of having more than one black lead in their tv shows (Kenneth: “A rule NBC still follows today!”).

Ultimately, Odenkirk and Cross’ intentions are irrelevant. There is no excuse for donning Blackface.

In general I think 95% of complains about “political correctness” are total horseshit, but this may be one of those rare instances where it isn’t. This reeks of Netflix frantically trying to expunge anything vaguely controversial that could generate outrage.

Odenkirk’s response similarly misses the point...Odenkirk and Cross’ intentions are irrelevant 

Remember when The AV Club would report the news, rather than tell you the specific, exact response you should have to it?

True. I stand corrected. Thanks for taking the time to explain it better though. Appreciate it. 

A Fish Called Wanda, Die Hard, Beetlejuice and Big are all cruddy movies? SURE thing. 

Given that we live in a world where we have a new Looney Tunes cartoon that is very much the same as oldschool Looney Tunes, I’d say we do live in a world where it would fly. You’re reading way too much into things.

Now that pretty much the entire game industry is delayed your work here is done.

“She is a woman who is considered “attractive” based on a set of clearly established standards of beauty, presented (dare I say commodified) in a way that highlights the sexualized elements of her physical body established by generations of misogyny and male sexual dominance, otherwise known as the unfortunate…

I clicked for boobs. I watched the clips for boobs. I did not read a fucking bit of it because words are not boobs. Is this the girl who started “Ok Boomer”? If so, this is not the path I would have taken afterwards, but whatever.

“she needed to put something up on TikTok that day”

Really?

“Perfect Storm”—- Ohhhkk. Whatever you want to call your cleavage. Good on her for keeping up the momentum, but a spade is a spade.

I’m officially too old to “get” streamer culture. Like I get it, but I don’t “get” it. 

Attractive person has a viral hit on a social media platform, news at 11.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me, but it seems her rise in popularity may have been attributable to something other than ‘OK Boomer’. YMMV

Wow, so edgy.