The book’s title is interesting as it implies that it’s men calling her “crazy” (which does happen with many women) but Tendler herself has admitted struggles with mental illness and a period in a psych facility. I guess once the book comes out, it’ll be evident where she’s coming from specifically.

Whoa, I was expecting a hung jury. Two hours of deliberation? That’s fast. Prosecution must have put on a damn good case.

I couldn’t imagine being with someone that was: (1) maniacally narcissistic; (2) incredibly insecure; (3) addicted to cocaine; and (4) in high demand. That is a recipe for absolute disaster, though I suspect is not uncommon for rising star entertainers/comedians/actors. For what it’s worth, it seems like both she and…

I agree with you, it sounds like they’re two broken people who were in a marriage that didn’t work.

Yeah, I think the situation is probably much more complicated than the discourse around it would imply. It’s either that he was an awful cheater or she was a crazy wife, but those are probably both bad takes.

I’ve noticed there’s this tenor to a lot of coverage where Tendler gets to slot into the aggrieved long-suffering spouse role and praised for a tell-all book, while Mulaney is disparaged for not talking publicly about it. And I feel like people are mistaking disclosure for truth, and intimating that we’re owed any…

I am once again shocked that the entertainment industry, of all places, is a refuge for scumbags and fuckups. How can this keep happening!?

Better lawyers yes, but also a better defense. The way to enforce gun safety on a set is to hire someone specifically to be in charge of enforcing gun safety on set - which was Gutierrez-Reed. The burden to put criminal responsibility on Baldwin will be higher.

Root for the camera crew who quit over safety concerns.

Well, we’ve all learned a valuable lesson: never use real bullets when making a movie. If only we had known.

Also, there is no way in forking hell that Alec Baldwin would be waving around a weapon, being cavalier with it, if he thought there was any chance it was loaded with live ammunition. He’s been using dummy guns and prop guns for literally 35 years. He just trusts, as anybody would, that a gun handed to him on the set…

She deserves some kind of punishment for her failures and role in this tragedy.

Yes. The way this article characterizes the ending is ridiculous.

Paul is choosing the least bad option. They didn’t really show a lot of other options except for his short speech about seeing the future and their enemies prevailing in so many of them.  He’s choosing the narrow way through that he saw.  I think they did a good job showing how reluctant he is and how he fights it,…

I don’t think he’s going to tone it down. Villaneuve’s main theme seems to be the danger of Messiahs, even more than Herbert, so a whole bunch of people have to die because of Paul. But I agree that making it less depressing than The Zone of Interest or All Quiet on the Western Front may prove to be a challenge.

One way to look at Paul is that he was not really supposed to be the Chosen One, as Jessica broke the Bene Gessrrit grand plan by having a son. His lust for vengenance means rather than being a Messiah he ends up being a very bad thing for the Fremen and humanity.

“I guess Paul is sorta breaking bad?” - Jesse Freman

In Dune Messiah, Paul is talking to Stilgar about history. He says something along the lines of “Genghis Khan killed four million people to build his empire. Hitler killed six million people. I killed sixty-one billion people. I am ten thousand times worse than Hitler. Hitler is nothing compared to me.”

I wish Villeneuve would adapt Children of Dune as well because Herbert thought of the first three books as a fugue. Stopping the film series with the end of Paul and Chani’s main arcs does a disservice to the story of Paul as his legacy upon the greater universe is seen in more totality in Children of Dune.

Esoteric is the kindest word I would use for the Dune books after Messiah. However, out of genuine curiosity, is it true that Herbert wrote Messiah in response to people misunderstanding the first book?