The Jazz Singer. I was overwhelmed with joy the first time I heard Jakie say "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet" and that was in 2017. I can't imagine how amazing it was at the time.

Just to recap: I criticised Supergirl for mishandling its pro-refugee themes by reproducing right-wing rhetoric on good vs bad refugees IN ITS FICTIONAL WORLD through its portrayal of an army of refugee invaders. I find it troublesome because I believe that rhetoric obscures what I believe is an unconditional moral…

There's no such thing as good refugees or bad refugees, there's only refugees and we have an unconditional moral obligation to provide them comfortable, safe and fulfilling lives. I'm not gonna waste any more time arguing with someone who doesn't believe that, especially in the comments of a fucking Supergirl review.

It wasn't intended as innuendo. There is well-documented evidence that the Clinton Foundation at best mistakenly failed to disclose or at worst actively concealed donations that violated the memorandum of understanding creating specific transparency obligations on the Clinton Foundation signed before Hillary became…

They're refugees AND invaders, that's literally the whole problem. A refugee is anyone displaced from their homeland (or homeworld, in this case) by conflict, persecution or natural disaster. Saying "refugees come in peace" is literally saying "only good refugees count as real refugees, bad refugees don't" which in…

The way to drive the point home would be for the bad guys to not be refugees, obviously. It's pretty bizarre that the season's original Trump figure, Lillian Luthor, gets to say "see, I was right to fear an immanent invasion of alien refugees if we didn't make the planet inhospitable to them" and no one can contradict…

"There are a small number of good refugees who believe in our values, but there are also hordes of bad evil refugees who want to destroy our way of life" is literally the boilerplate justification for right-wing anti-refugee policy in every country in the western world.

Hordes of refugees invading the Earth isn't how I would have gone about advancing my pro-refugee/anti-Trump themes if I was writing for Supergirl, but sure

They're not at all supposed to be the same person because Veep is a satire of the US political system and not of current affairs (it's in alternate timeline where, among other things, the Tea Party never took over the Republican Party), but Selina is obviously based partly on Hillary in lots of ways. Selina being VP…

Sure, but that's not particularly responsive or predictive or otherwise impressive - the prison-industrial complex is a major political issue in the United States and has been since Bill Clinton built it in the 90s, so it would be a massive failure of any show ostensibly about American politics to not feature private…

I mean, sure, but it's not really that Veep is particularly responsive or predictive as much as it's just that Veep is about American politics and the prison-industrial complex has been a major political issue for decades. The storyline would probably ring true to life regardless of whether Trump or Hillary won given…

That's probably not true since episode three, "Georgia", was filmed on election night, but even if it was, I wasn't talking about commentary on the present political moment.

"Season six started with Veep seemingly putting its political commentary on hold and focusing in on character" is a thought only someone in deep denial about whether or not Selina is explicitly based in no small part on Hillary Clinton could assert with such confidence.

I haven't been reading any theoeries or anything, so I'm sure there's plenty of clues or evidence I missed or forgot, but at this late stage, I'm gonna go with Dave the Taxidermist.

Rag of Revelation, obviously!

I got around to a lot this year but the most rewarding was the fistful of Jack Lemmon films I watched. The Apartment is one of my favourite movies, so it shouldn't have taken this long, but I finally watched Some Like It Hot and The Odd Couple, as well as his less iconic but still great roles in The Fortune Cookie and…

Tobias Church is based on Tobias Whale from the Nightwing comics. That's what the Bludhaven namedrop was about.

I finished season three of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and it's easy to see why so many people consider it the greatest TV show ever made. The writing is great, but the performances are what really brings it to life - the actors have such great physicality and do so much with their faces, postures, gestures, etc.

I don't think Joe's machinations are mysterious at all, for the simple reason that everything he's done so far revolves around Gordon, not Mutiny. Everything Joe did in this episode was about hurting Gordon for rejecting Joe's offer to go into business together last season. That wasn't just a business opportunity for…

This is what I find so hilarious about you folks. You're so fragile that a gentle "you can do better" becomes an "attack", but apparently I'm the hypersensitive militant lashing out at people over nothing? Amazing.