It’s my fault it’s canceled. I loved the first season, but I haven’t been able to watch the second season yet, because it’s about diarrhea and I only ever watch TV when I’m eating.

Yeah, I haven’t seen the movie but I’ve read the short story it’s based on, and while I don’t think the review gives everything away, it definitely gives away more than I’d want to know going in.

So much this. The most mortifying thing to me is that Coppola doesn’t just take a transgressive villain and argue that his transgressiveness actually makes him a hero; over the course of the movie he strips Dracula of his transgressiveness, changing him from a queer old blood-sucking conqueror into a handsome young…

I’m apt to believe that the success or failure of a particular SNL generation has a lot to do with how well the other folks on the show know how to deal with Lorne. I was fascinated by Taran Killam’s comments last week that “when Seth Meyers left the show, the dynamic changed quite a bit. He was the last person there…

So it’s hard to tell from the footage in the trailer, but is this going to be a period piece? I didn’t see anything explicitly modern, and there are some dated fashions and a blocky old computer in one shot that suggest this might have the same late-20th-century setting as the original novel.

Yep, I had a dormmate in college who was like that. He confused a lot of people, because he was from West Africa and I don’t think he’d ever even visited the United States before, but he had an absolutely perfect American accent.

“Citizen filibuster, thank you, and really, thank you for respecting our town laws by interrupting me during this!”

I’d agree with “pretty good” but not with “enjoyable,” at least not anymore. I think it’s probably accurate to portray Trump as basically a stupid asshole who’s always miserable and never gets the joke, but you can only hit those notes so many times before they get really tiresome.

I think I’ve mentioned it in one of the earlier discussions in this series, but that dumb “I don’t have to save you” moment apparently came very late in the development process. In this draft of the screenplay, which is otherwise very close to the finished project give or take a final dialogue polish, they don’t try…

I’m afraid I’m starting to get into a Titanic situation with Game of Thrones. I’ve mostly enjoyed the past few seasons despite thinking that there’s not much going on with it aside from empty spectacle, but the more people shower it with praise and awards for being so, so super amazing even though it isn’t, the more…

I feel like there are two separate issues here—whether the series should have characterized the Slytherins as horrible by default, and whether the series did do so. I absolutely think it was a dumb and reductive characterization to suggest that a quarter of the school’s population was all but irredeemable because they…

Dammit, the header made me think this was going to be a period piece about a lady mayor in the early twentieth century. That might actually have been interesting, instead of probably boring and sad.

Saw this one at Sundance. It’s a fascinating story I’d never heard before, and I’m largely sympathetic with the filmmaker’s take on both it and the current events that echo it, but the ways in which he puts a thumb on the scale for his preferred perspective is too glaring for me to take the film seriously.

The box in the first episode was a light-colored box from Florsheim Shoes. It’s apparently the same box he used to store the Kettlemans’ money later in the first season, which was a yellow Florsheim Shoes box. In this episode Saul had his hands over the sides of the box, so I could’ve tell whether it was from…

We saw inside the box in the first episode of the series, when Gene rummages through it to find the tape of his old commercial as Saul. It’s apparently a box of personal mementos, and by that point, at least, it also included a Panamanian passport; some vintage photos of what might be his family; an envelope of newer…

I’d say the point of the Saul scene is to draw the same contrast that’s evident in all the other storylines this week: Jimmy is the guy who gets to the end of a long, traumatic, and baffling journey and insists that it was no big deal and it’ll be smooth sailing from now on, whereas Saul is the guy who gets to the end…

I dunno, I think Occam’s Razor cuts against the assumption that if a guy was the target of relentless trolling from Gamergate pricks and adopted what was advertised as an anti-Gamergate blocklist, he didn’t actually care about blocking Gamergate pricks but was secretly interested in blocking trans activists, a thing…

Wait, are people really suspicious that Wil Wheaton was like, “Oh man, I really need to ban trans-supportive voices from my Twitter feed, lemme find a blocklist that’ll do that”? Is there some reason I’m unaware of that would make that a plausible assumption?

The real news here is that Satan dated Phil’s sister Mary Pat a couple times, but stopped when Phil told him not to anymore.

But if it’s meant to show a dark side to a character who’s always been sort of deified, isn’t it sort of cheating to make him a completely different character? Like, wouldn’t it be more interesting for Thomas Wayne to be a beloved philanthropist doctor whose actions were, from the Joker’s perspective, shitty or…