I loved TMR, but I also trust Fennel after Promising Young Woman. I plan on seeing it. Smart movies are alway a little disappointing to me, but she seems genuinely interesting.

Almost all anti-obesity “research” is inconclusive. Glossy magazine articles are not a reason to be a shithead. I say that as someone with strong “healthy” eating biases. 

And given the fact that 70s writers rooms were predominantly white men who made up 40 percent of the US population in 1970, there were probably always at least 70 or so good writers even in 1970, even if you assume his assessment is accurate but limited by the racism and misogyny of the time.

Underrated but fantastic 90s hangout movie: Human Traffic.

Friends in the industry suggest she’s pretty terrible, even by celebrity standards. 

There’s also the aspect of more Americans watching TV and media from other countries. Once I got hooked on foreign series, often with a beginning middle and end, just like any normal story-based media, I really couldn’t return to American shows that just treaded indefinite water.

spiralizing is no longer a thing I guess, but kohlrabi is one of the few veg that really sing when made into noodles. So if that’s appealing, I give it a big recommend. (obv no veg is going to get the right noodle texture, but IMO, kohlrabi is one of the few that gets to that perfect spot in between crunchy and mushy,…

Oh God, I have literally never understood the Tom Hanks thing until I watched Punchline, at which point I fell solidly in love.

As far as Peggy goes, I just don’t htink they built the Stan relationship. Or, they did, but what they built to was a close coworker relationship, no real sense of affinity in their narrative beyond that. I thought it was very out of left field. I think the smoking Peggy with the octopus painting was a much stronger…

Yes. Exactly. They flirt with the idea of what Don is after he loses some of his shine, but not much.

Hard agree. About the last season too. I feel like if they’d killed off Don in the penultimate season, the show would have been better off. As it was, the question became, what was this all for? The only real catharsis that was true to the character was for Betty of all people, as far as the major players. Maybe…

A lot of the glaring omissions have been covered, but I think also there’s a serious dearth of electronic music, which if nothing else, has ended up being one of the most influential types of music on today’s pop.

The Dead is rough if you have a nitpicky ear as far as intonation goes. I find them completely unlistenable. 

I know it was on the Best Finale list, but I think Mad Men’s belongs here.

In defense of cruises:

Just go ahead and get Souper Cubes, which are too expensive for what they are, but entirely solve the problem of freezer management. Stackable bricks of food are amazing. 

Most of these are common sense and for people with average constipation.

If they can make rice in a rice cooker, they can make a meal, assuming your rice cooker has a steamer insert.

Yeah, that’s fair too. I don’t have a gluten issue, I just don’t care that much about carbs to waste calories on them. But if they give you pleasure, you should eat real noodles, for sure. :)

Every few years, there’s a new broken white girls media thing, almost exclusively with a male director. I never saw Spring Breakers because I recognized the vibe from Kids (basically Kids but make it less cool, more FLorida) and I’d already seen a bunch of Skins. Don’t get me started on Larry Clarke.