I wonder if her response is colored by America’s Sweethearts, which was another movie that by the numbers should have been amazing. Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, it's basically a supergroup of 1980s/1990s rom-coms. And yet, it utterly fails to replicate any of the magic of their…

But there's a widely recognized difference between cheap tricks and well-done art. Otherwise there'd be no difference between a car ad that makes you cry and the best dramas

Weird how the Asgardians have British accents but Olympians have to have verisimilitude? 

I think a huge amount of that is the writing and Kenneth Branagh’s direction. All his Shakespeare adaptations are painfully forced and stilted, and he applied the same approach in Thor. Hopefully Valkyrie and Jane are the main romantic couple so it won't even be an issue.

“born to do sketch comedy” from the bulk of his sketches, it’s more like he was born to be an unentertaining game show host

Maybe not the most efficient or the cleanest, but I have a better method. Cut away the peel. Slice thin cross-sections. Lay on plate. Dress with olive oil, salt, and black pepper. Will convert the pickiest people that don't like fruit (me).

Why bring up health at all? Peterson didn’t say anything about it. If you were really concerned about health instead of parroting fatphobia, you probably wouldn't be taking the side of the fool who got himself stuck in a medical coma in Russia because he wasn’t consuming anything but beef, salt, water, and clonazepam.…

Apparently a diet of solely beef, salt, and clonezapam is not the secret to a healthy glow.

Jordan Peterson probably does have scurvy if he’s still keeping up that magic carnivore diet. 

Ms. Marvel trailer response: how dare they change her powers to make the CGI cheaper and look better! She-Hulk trailer: How dare they have CGI in a TV show that doesn't look perfect! Embiggened MCU females really can't win

I’ve seen most of Friends in syndication and I watched The Office as it aired. They’re both fine sitcoms and I enjoyed them at the time. Cringe and embarrassment humor isn’t my favorite so I don’t rewatch The Office. It’s possible I would appreciate it more? I think I’m just tired generally of our culture recycling…

Very true! I amend to queer people. They are the network that brought us WhiJo, Darryl, Constantine, Gary, alt-Captain Cold, and I’m sure a lot of others i don't know about cause I stopped watching everything but Legends years ago.

Go ask a lit professor who Don Quixote is, cause you’re clearly intent on fighting something that’s not even there

😂 I literally said I did like them

I’m not saying I judge people for enjoying them, obviously they’re very popular and I liked them when they were airing. But what inspires an almost Star Wars/MCU level fanaticism where people are still engaging this actively with them?

I will never understand why, of any piece of culture from the 1990s and 2000s, Friends and the Office are the two things I see gifs of and references to every single day on social media. I've even spent insomniac nights clicking 'not interested' over and over and over, they're still inescapable. There are such better…

Given that the cornerstone of her career was purposefully off-putting, unfiltered, and otherwise gross comic relief, that’s a very reasonable impression. I don’t fully understand how she’s transitioned to leading lady. She’s more of a Josh Gad or Billy Eichner type that’s appreciated best in small doses (if at all).…

I was very surprised when The CW suddenly became my go-to place for fun, smart, inventive, and entertaining network TV in the heady days of Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the peak years of Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and even the first season of Riverdale. I’m not at all surprised to see that card castle…

After the Thin Man, A Shot in the Dark, arguably Ocean’s 12 if you consider them comedies, some of the Men in Black and Vacation sequels. The trend is they have to have some genre frame that adapts to an almost monster of the week approach. 

To add to the list, After the Thin Man is better than The Thin Man, but that's largely on Jimmy Stewart and the plot, not the comedy.