By 2049, the moronic debate over global warming will have mutated into a moronic debate over who’s to blame for global warming. On the West Coast it will be popular to absolve the Pacific Ocean of any responsibility and attribute all coastal effects to “the catastrophically risen Atlantic tide.”

I always assumed it was an open secret in Hollywood that the Weinstein brothers were giant, gross pervs—not because I had any inside knowledge, but because back in 1999, Fox’s highly referential Hollywood satire Action had an episode in which the “Rothstein brothers” hold a movie deal hostage until Ileana Douglas’s…

If we were to draw a graph of his process, of his method, it would be something like this: Pedophile, pedophile, pedophile . . . Action! REFORMED BULLY NOAH “PUCK” PUCKERMAN! Cut! Pedophile, pedophile, pedophile . . .

Yep. It’s especially good at defusing the “Roko’s basilisk” idea, since an AI that was simulating our universe in order to test us would have to assume that it, too, was being simulated as part of a test, and thus wouldn’t be free to act with godlike abandon either.

I’m not so sure. Hammond’s take on the character seemed to be that he was a smartass shit-stitter, a guy who was winding up other people for his own amusement. Even now in his Post interview, he seems to be in the Trump knows exactly what he’s doing camp. I don’t know that he’d be the ideal person to put across…

Absolutely. I’ve never seen anything that captured the president’s innter petulant five-year-old better than the improvised moment in the first episode where Atamanuik’s Trump is sulking on a stoop in New York City when a truck suddenly trundles by. “A truck! Oh boy oh boy!”

Yeah, neither Armisen nor Pharoah had a particularly strong take on Obama, but Pharoah was at least capturing his basic mannerisms correctly, his sort of confident, casual aloofness. Armisen played him like he plays nearly every role—as a performative weirdo who’s overcompensating because he’s uncomfortable in his own…

I thought he was fantastic in Carnivàle. In a second season that leaned way too heavily on meaningless fantasy tropes and over-the-top villainy, he nicely underplayed a character who could’ve easily been another one-dimensional cartoon baddie.

Omigod, I’d forgotten that AICN had the most astonishing Buffy spoiler coup of all time: in the summer of 2001, they posted the writers’ entire plan for season 6 before a single episode had been written. That’s how we know, for instance, that they originally planned for Willow to be the Big Bad for the entire season.

Oh, I don’t think Katherine Olson was forward-thinking enough to imagine that her daughter could choose a career over a family, but I do see a difference between Gayle Holloway’s apparently urgent conviction that a woman must hook a man to be secure (to the point that she herself was still flirting with her daughter’s…

Yep, which is why I’m skeptical that the sequel will be any good, because what are the chances that all that chemistry, and the resulting strong connection between the audience and the characters, will transfer to an entirely new cast of adult actors playing messed-up forty-year-olds?

Given the era in question and the amount of hackery involved, I imagine that it would’ve looked exactly like Neo in The Matrix kung fu.

Yep, Moriarty and Capone are the reason I kept going back to that site for so long, even though most of the content was unreadable in a half dozen different ways.

I’m not sure you can make such a direct comparison, since I don’t think Peggy was “raised . . . to be admired” in the same way Joan was. Ma Olson taught her daughters that you should take care of your poor mother and not be one of “those girls,” and if that means you never find a husband, you should just give up and…

This is indeed a disturbing universe.

Little Stevie More runs wildly around the basement, swinging a makeshift sword. He accidentally WHACKS it against a huge, darkened COMPUTER CONSOLE.

No, it’ll be called Family Matters More, in which newly divorced mother of three Laura Winslow More returns to her old family home in the hopes of putting her life back together. While playing with some old scientific equipment in the basement, her youngest son accidentally releases her long-lost fiance Steve Urkel…

Is Before Watchmen actually any good? Because I haven’t read any of it, but what I’ve heard about it makes it sound like it was written by people who didn’t understand the original Watchmen at all. (As I mentioned in the comments on yesterday’s Lindelof article, the one that particularly jumped out at me was the idea…

I admire the SQUID reactor for its narrative economy, and I don’t necessarily think the resolution in the book had to be a crazy Lovecraftian demon. And since the book is otherwise pretty grounded in gritty reality except for carefully established exceptions, it galls that we’re just supposed to accept the handwave…

The Leftovers is why I’m trying to keep an open mind, too, particularly since it shows his ability to respect someone his collaborators and their source material without being afraid to contribute his own better ideas to the endeavor.