That accuser’s story is definitely colored by the fact that she initially went public with it in a borderline incoherent post on her New Agey blog, but when the new BuzzFeed article revisited it, it seemed pretty straightforward and plausible: she was friends with Tyson when they were both in grad school, she went…

Nope, it’s four separate alleged incidents, two that could conceivably be characterized as “dude acting sketchy at a party,” one that would be a pretty clear case of workplace sexual harassment (aggressively propositioning a woman over whom he has a great deal of power), and one that’s a straight-up rape accusation.

The problem is that you’re trying to apply any sort of logic to the Hollywood Foreign Press beyond “Get as much studio swag and attention from celebrities as possible.” The way they arrange things is to make sure the most high-profile films and biggest stars are in the Drama category, and anyone else they want a tongue…

Ha, it’s the character of Ozymandias from the graphic novel WATCHMEN. Though just like week in the comments of another article, I think someone mentioned that the character was partially modeled after Redford.

Definitely. I always thought it was funny that one of my go-to stories about interesting things that had happened to me used to be “One time I got into a big, dumb argument with a professional screenwriter on the Internet”—but now it’s barely interesting at all, since these days people get into stupid fights with…

I know we’re in the age of everyone being terrible online, but this one really bummed me out. Years ago, when I was a young aspiring writer, Rossio’s screenwriting site Wordplayer was my favorite place to go for advice and support. He always seemed like a good guy; in fact, I got into several dumb online arguments…

I think the main problem Jeremy Bearimy solves is that it explains why events in the Good Place haven’t gotten way ahead of events on earth. It’d be a much different and less elegant story if hundreds of years had passed, and everyone our heroes knew had also died, and Michael and company had intimate knowledge of…

Yep, because apparently Snyder also failed to understand that when Rorschach calls Adrian a “possible homosexual” while ranting that all the other heroes have personality disorders, we’re not supposed to think he’s making a brilliant leap of intuition.

Tom Cruise was always a top suggestion for Ozy. Despite his then-recent couch-jumping baggage, he still had a “clean-cut all-American action star” vibe that would’ve worked well for the character, I think.

Not sure why Snyder allowed Goode to play so obvious a villain- the added German accent just made it all the more obvious.

I agree with this, and I like the way they both updated the story for modern relevance and streamlined the story while still maintaining the same thematic core. Where Vendetta failed, I think, was in making V into too much of a straightforward hero type, at the cost of rendering the other main characters purely…

Eh, it’s her work in the early seasons that I hate most of all, which is why I blame Joss for not doing more to develop her as a newbie staff writer. By contrast, I have very few complaints about the early episodes of season 6, when she took over as showrunner. I think the arc-level storytelling in those episodes is…

While it’s true she wrote the abysmal episode “Wrecked,” which tanked the Dark Willow storyline, I see the episode as the result of that decision rather than the cause. Considering how clearly the earlier episodes of the season were setting up Willow as the Big Bad, how suddenly the storyline jumped the tracks, and…

Speaking of Good Place/Parks and Rec crossovers, am I the only one whose headcanon is that the last season of P&R was set in the original, non-weird version of 2017, before Michael meddled with the timeline?

I definitely thought that was the implication. If she already had the gift at that point, she would’ve known immediately that it wasn’t Nellie’s hand.

I’m only catching up on the show now, but I even take issue with the notion that the floating man didn’t have a strong personal connection to Luke. His father gave him the “big boy hat” to symbolize the fact that he was growing up and didn’t have to worry about silly kids’ stuff like ghosts and evil houses. When a…

I totally agree. One of the reasons I hung on through season 1 was because I was hoping for the show to deliver on an “intricate puzzlebox” level if nothing else, for all of Frank’s scheming to come together in a way that made him look deliciously devious. But by the end of the first season most of his political…

Yeah, I bailed after the first episode of season 2, but to me the show was most fascinating for the way it seemed to achieve precisely the opposite of what it was intending. It was so cynical that it came off as embarrassingly naive, so carefully crafted in an “every scene is shot like an Oscar clip” sense that it…

That sounds a lot like her being the main character and her efforts to stop the ERA being the main plotline, both of which will ultimately “win” if the story remains historically accurate.

I think the writers are being coy about Glover “filling in” some of the lyrics of the extended version. It sounds like he recorded essentially the entire song. Even the eight-second chorus sounds different from the version Morgan performed for the show itself.