If she’d just emphasized the work with A New Way Of Life - which is a genuinely worthy cause - and summarized her experiences as “I screwed up, but this is something good to come out of it,” this would have both been a solid step on the road to redemption and achieved the goal of getting the organization some decent…

I mean, it’s more proper to hate the Bachelor proper, since it’s always been a show that condescended to its audience (of almost all cishet women) that real life romance and relationships can bloom under a microscope for their viewing pleasure in convenient editing of 42 minutes at a time. If you’re buying into the…

I’ve found carrying around a Google Chrome - which weighs almost nothing - in my laptop bag facilitates streaming to hotel TVs that otherwise do their best to prevent it in an attempt to force you to PPV.

Missing from the writeup, but in the NYT link:

The cheering on Reddit for the intro’s happy ending between Pam and Ellen along with the latter’s miraculous reelection (per the extras, apparently due to her leadership post bombing, which among other things somehow even more miraculously wizarded away social moderates, let alone conservatives, from the mid 90s electo…

As always, the series balances sci-fi with grounded drama

The difference with American Sniper is that it’s pretty well documented that Chief Kyle started rather exaggerating his accomplishments - which given his actual badassery he didn’t really need to do - while alive, so doing so even further after his death in film format wasn’t entirely inappropriate.

Into retirement. Please.

because that kind of very-online anti-fun/creativity “criticism” is exhausting and pretentious

With the disclaimer that I’ve still not made it through S5 yet, this catches many of my concerns that stemmed from her portrayal at the end of S4.

Agreed. His was the only character in the first episode that felt dead on, and that came from his performance as much as it did from the sell job his role demanded he make of Dani.

One of my most WTF moments here was a few years back when I read the responses to someone who had a pulmonary embolism after being on the pill. Her comment wasn’t bashing birth control; instead, from what I remember it was trying to make others aware of the 1 in 1000 or so risk of it and how to watch for early signs…

Great piece, but I strongly doubt it. Most of the speculation involves problems for a while in finding advertisers willing to buy around their content, which also would explain why there was no real match in terms of even dumping it to someone else rather than shutting it down entirely.

Jez had gone downhill a lot since its glory days - arguably the steepest dive of all the G/O properties - but I’ll still miss the occasional peek over there.

It’s a hollow cover version that vanishes in the ether.

The protagonists, both old and new, are saddled with serious soap opera-level storylines...the winning curiosity that previously drove so much of FAM takes a back seat to some dragged-out, redundant narrative threads.

Sounds like it has very little to do with the book outside of using some of the structural concepts.

On the other, you’ve got Fergie and whatever that was in 2018.

I’d forgotten the Dream On connection, one of my favorite shows of the early 90s. I probably watched more of that than Friends, come to think of it.

I see kids with shaped sandwiches and peeled cucumber and fruit on toothpick skewers with fun little colour patterns depicting a flag of the week