Absolutely this. Trump at his core is a useful idiot. He has a lot of awful policy stands but they come from a largely lazy greed and sociopathy and self-interest and the conviction that he will not personally be affected by any of it. In his four years as president, he rubber-stamped a whole bunch of terrible things…

The real take should be: we’ve got Biden, who is on a slow, gentle glide in a fairly typical retirement old-guy mindset, and we’ve got Trump who is in a steep decline into blithering madness. They are two different angles of descent. We’re stuck with both because of rules and reasons: An incumbent president has the…

I met Brian Peck when I was on the set of X-Men (in a civilian capacity) in 1999. He sat and socialized behind the camera pretty much the whole time my +1 and I were there; he didn’t have a role in the movie (though he eventually got a came0—in the same scene as Stan Lee, no less!). He told us he was there because he…

I guess they missed that his criticism of Trump also included that he’s a fascist piece of shit, but hey, get mad because your side insisted on a useless old fossil in order to beat a malevolent old fossil. That is totally Stewart’s fault. Totally.

He’s on the X-Men 1.5 DVD commentary with Singer, who asked him personally

A couple of things stand out:

No one expects Stewart to be a propagandist for Biden the way Tucker is for Trump. It’s just supremely unreal to see the media at large, including Stewart, treat Biden’s age and occaisonal gaffes as if they’re in any way comparable to Trump’s insane, dictatatorial, self-absorbed ramblings.

Seasons 2 and 3 are so universally reviled, and so utterly dissimilar to Season 1, that it’s fair to say that Pizzolatto probably never really fully understood his own lightning. There was a lot of stuff I didn’t like about Season 4 (especially as an Alaskan, questioning why the show felt the need to cast a non-AK…

Love that you started this conversation. Part of the appeal for me of Season 1 was that the *detective* story itself was kinda weak; the bigger message was a meta-commentary on detective stories (and so much else). Hell, even the title was part of that meta-commentary. Looking back on it, with NP’s reactions here,…

Jesus Christ this industry.

Half of True Detective’s appeal was the idea that there was always something deeper and weirder to the mythos.

Watching this movie sounds like being a spectator at a game of Calvinball.

THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT! Now, can you say it louder for the trolls in the back?

He’s such a little bitch. He pitched a season 4 idea to HBO and they didn’t want it. He created a shitty season 2 and a mediocre season 3. He hadn’t proved himself to create a show that’s consistent enough quality each season. HBO likely didn’t trust that he could deliver.

It was better for the industry when they tried to maintain some mystique and keep some things behind the curtain. Being this petulant - esp when you’re making money off it anyway - just looks immature.

His IMDB bio says that he “frequently collaborated with Bryan Singer an Dan Schneider.” I’m willing to wager that doesn’t just refer to film and TV projects.

In Season 2, Pizzolatto literally wrote the line, “I will come back here and butt f*ck your dad with your mom’s headless corpse.” I think whatever mantle he held regarding quality or “classic dialogue” ended right there. Also, so much of what made season 1 what it was the acting and direction. Many of the ideas were…

Coming from Pizzolatto I’d say it’s probably half misogyny, half egomaniac showrunner/control freak.

For a show that coasted so much on *vibes* Pizzolatto sure has a high f’ing opinion of his own fun but stupid writing.

No. That was my first thought; more inane trash that’ll be in a landfill within two years or under a pile of reaking clothes in the corner of a teen’s room until he moves out.