No, I think you’re basically right; it’s systemic, but there are multiple ways that it doesn’t have to be. From the kid’s perspective, it really doesn’t matter if it’s the parent, someone on the producer level who has the power to tell the director to back off, or a director who is more in tune with what children need…

Even though she finally got a bit of closure in realizing just how much danger she was in at the time confirmed by the special effects director many years later and realizes she’s been very right to be enraged at Gilliam for what he did, Polley is quite a bit more gracious to Gilliam than this article implies:

Can confirm second shingles shot plus swapping off Pfizer for a Moderna booster on the same day (different shoulders at least) was...not a good idea.

After Brazzers - which is about as mad at a TV show as I’ve been in a long, long time, particularly after the Anchors Aweigh reconciliation scene 4 or 5 episodes earlier - I think Ed and Karen are done done. One of the reasons I hated it so much was that it just destroyed any plausibility of how the three characters…

In the FAMU (I think that’s the nickname on Reddit) Reagan wins in ‘76 rather than starting in ‘80, so it’s not quite as much of a stretch that a Democrat wins that year given Reagan is term limited and nearly blows up the world.

I skipped the review for now since I’m going to watch this tonight, but even without reading it I just wanted to stop in to say...holy crap.

The Geeked Week interview by Felicia Day goes into far more depth about the choices they made, and it’s a fascinating watch.

Waterston returning is fine even if he’s not what he was 25 years ago (who is), but jettisoning the rest of the cast and showrunner probably wouldn’t be a bad idea. Only four more to go after Anderson.

A couple of days ago I plugged in Top Gun: Maverick on IMDB (to look up Barbaro’s credits, actually) and discovered it’s now ranked the #49 movie of all time.

But how else, we ask, was Gen Z supposed to discover the magic of Kate Bush?

I’ll wish her luck; Katniss’ mental breakdowns made the third book a pretty interesting read even if much of the plot repeated and turning it into a 5 hour slogfest was one of the nastier money grabs of peak YA dystopia.  The prequel, though, is just lousy material and even though it’s written for the screen, it’s…

Amen. It started slowly but when you get to the end of Episode 7 you realize just what a really clever bit of writing they pulled off for not just the season but for the world they’ve built for the previous three seasons.

I thought it started slowly as well, but stick with it.

After Goodfellas, weirdly enough the appearance that I remember him the most for is the deservedly panned No Escape. He didn’t have much to work with plotwise in that one but made the most of what he did.

I had totally forgotten about the “I’m an entertainer and I don’t want to go into it” before he realizes who he’s talking with. The clip is still out there.

after a three-freaking-year wait

Davidson and Mooney will have relatively little impact, but McKinnon and Bryant have been at the core of the show for a long, long time and their absence is going to be felt.

Perhaps AVClub could finally cover the series episode-by-episode as many of us have requested over and over; gushing about it in your ‘best of’ lists while writing two articles per year on it is a bit incongruous.

Once her mom wasn’t there anymore full time when she hit her teen years, the brutal crap she took from social media trolls triggered depression severe enough so that she would rarely leave the house and often didn’t get out of bed. That was the background for the linked ‘such good friends with Maisie Williams’…

The one thing that I take from the multiple glowing reviews is that it’s pretty much guaranteed to not be awful, which is really all I ask from it.