It was a wise commenter (I know not who) who said in response to one of Nathan Rabin’s articles that the older you get, the more you realise “All-Star Cast” is more a warning than a promise.

And yet somehow, I bet this star-studded Netflix movie will feel strangely small and hollow, then disappear from the social consciousness within two weeks.

The MTV awards are famous for only honouring music from great albums.

Still keeping up the premise that there’s a film crew tailing them doing a reality show.

Not a voiceover! That was Kayvan Novak doing impressions of his castmates, he and Guillen have discussed it in a few interviews.

Selena Gomez is a much better comedic actress than she ever was as a pop star.

His hair should win its own Emmy.

Hi Myles, just want to say I completely agree with you. The words “concerningly” and “worrisome” are spot on. Sure this episode was enjoyable at face value, but the complete lack of reference to the Dubai Air fiasco was a bit of a shock to me. I really do hope they come back to this at some point. Otherwise it appears…

The Myles who is currently replying to you does. But the Myles who wrote this review did not, since I purposefully wrote about each episode after I watched them to avoid having hindsight cloud my initial reaction.

Okay, but then why did the show explicitly bring up the finances of a football club in the episode in question? I don’t think I—I won’t speak for anyone else—am responding to anything that the third episode didn’t explicitly make part of the text. If they intention was to just write that storyline off, they needed to…

I was discussing this with someone else and basically my position is that there are too many moving parts in that story (the sponsorship, the racial dynamics, the political dynamics) for it to carry zero consequences. The show’s positive worldview is fine, honestly, but there’s a limit to what it is able to swallow up…

But I guess I don’t understand why Nate would think this: his boss is Ted freaking Lasso. He became an assistant coach because Ted showed him the dignity of learning his name and allowing him a voice, and now he’s berating his replacement? The toxic masculinity Nate is portraying would be one thing if he had been…

I literally talk about it in the sentence after the one you quoted!

Given that this episode features a significant development in Roy becoming a coach, which I am presuming was part of the initial episode order, I don’t believe the two episodes they added were in succession.

Olivia and Paula’s relationship is one of the elements of the show I have the hardest time getting a read on. Particularly in the early episodes there seemed to be a sexual undercurrent to how Olivia interacts with Paula, but that doesn’t go anywhere in the later episodes, which makes it all more about class power…

Um... the point of propaganda is that you don’t think. You just see messages over and over and unconsciously accept them as true.

Why does Joseph Gordon-Levitt need a comeback? Did he harass someone? He was in a Best Picture nominee last year.

Shane: (Diabolical laughing) “Oh bro you are going down.”

I don’t find Paula particularly sympathetic, considering the way she treats people she doesn’t value (Armond, Quinn) as a servant and/or messy room. I feel like she’s a sketch of performative wokeness as well - whether that’s intentional, who knows, but I have far more empathy for Armond’s addiction struggles than…

I really don’t get why Affleck touching Lopez’s butt is news.