Nah, Myrtle was a cis girl who thought she was safe in the girl’s bathroom, until a duplicitous boy busted in, flashed his snake without consent, and then murdered her. A cautionary tale.

Heard, chef.

Yeah, I see Syd and Carmy as most similar to the dynamic between Don Draper and Peggy Olson. Their chemistry isn’t romantic or sexual, it’s an intense platonic respect. It’s intimate in its way, but built around seeing each other as artists with similar drives, as kindred spirits within their craft.

Hard agree on all of this. I’ve grown to resent full-season-drop binges of shows because it incentivizes watching the whole thing as quickly as you can justify. If you watch at your own pace, you risk getting spoiled or simply missing the window where anyone’s still discussing it before they’ve moved on. If you gorge…

Yeah, it should surprise nobody that a tech billionaire born into wealth knows nothing about the experience of capitalism for anyone who isn’t him.

He’s well liked, but Uncharted, Cherry, and The Devil All the Time contradict the “enough to get moviegoers out” part. Not to disparage Tom Holland, who’s charismatic and a talented guy, but the Spider IP is still doing immense heavy lifting.

Thank you, yes. It was an excellent show, but doesn’t really need another season. It reaches a pretty coherent endpoint and I don’t know that I need its lingering questions answered.

“What if we use AI impressions of you to test-run matches in the cloud” is literally the plot of a Black Mirror episode, so glad there’s another concept that show got more or less right.

I was going to say, “2S” instantly clocked as Canadian to me. It’s pretty wild how culturally prominent indigenous / First Nations groups are in Canada and how mostly invisible they are outside very particular pockets of the US. There are 1.8M indigenous people in all of Canada, but between 4 and 7M in the US.

I think every millennial has now had a moment of surreal horror that Homer Simpson was supposed to be 36.

At the moment, absolutely. She’s not enough of a liability to eclipse the franchise’s popularity (and frankly, its infrastructure...most of its value is likely tied up in movies, theme parks, and merchandise now.) No, her shitty opinions aren’t going to tank this multi-billion-dollar machine any time soon.

Yes, must be regional. In LA, they’re everywhere. Very popular here.

Even when I lived in a cold climate, I didn’t see the point. Then I got a convertible and they’re now a hard requirement. Top-down driving in the cold with seat-warming on is incredible and I’ll never go back.

“Heath Ledger copied Jack Nicholson’s Joker” sure is a take. Not a good one, but it is one for sure.

Yes, the mustachioed driver feels very impressive in it, but in the backseat is a disillusioned child who stares wistfully out its window, wishing to jump out and run across a wide field of grass brushed lovingly by the wind.

“The DEI thing.” I’m so done with this fragile cohort of adult children who take genre franchises so seriously, they’re outraged that a character they expect to be a silver CG man might be a silver CG woman. The suggestion that it’s somehow not believable - or even personally offensive - that a fictional character is…

Radiohead is really good at making these odd, sensitive, atmospheric tracks that tackle sadness and dejection and loss. If you want an interesting song to externalize the feelings of your introverted sad duck protagonist, and you want it to feel very earnest but somehow not embarrassingly treacly, they manage to…

The first two already leaned pretty hard into that aspect, to be fair. Lynch’s Dune was pretty content to play Paul’s messianic aspects straight, but Villeneuve really hammered Paul’s reluctance to become so, even starting in Part One.

I’d guess the appeal is for the creatives who want to remake The Crow, more than audiences clamoring for it. The 90's movie is so specifically famous for its style and aesthetic, for being so over-the-top with the goth-industrial wildness of it.