The film is based on Tom Junod’s Esquire profile of Rogers from 1998, which is probably the most compelling nonfiction essay I’ve ever read. Indeed, it’s largely about how wrong it is to dismiss Rogers as boring and inconsequential because he’s so mild-mannered and sweet—how his kindly manner is in fact girded with…

I saw that he was in the cast, but I wasn’t sure that he’s playing the same character. In the trailer, isn’t he the human-looking guy with the beard on Picard’s crew?

Yes, that controversial aspect of the SJW agenda, supporting victims of rape. Fucking creep.

I’m not basing my analysis on a single comment, though. I’m suggesting that there’s an entire subtextual storyline that repeatedly parallels Will’s repression of his Mind Flayer sense and his barely concealed jealousy over Mike and El relationship so as to suggest that he’s using an “I’m still just a kid” pose to…

Because the season introduces the “Will is still just a kid” explanation only to subsequently dismantle it in the most literal way possible. Like, Will beats his childhood to splinters with a bat, and it’s framed as a heartbreaking but necessary act that finally allows him to confront the horrifying truth of the Mind…

Perhaps, though if that’s some deeper truth about himself that he’s yet to come to terms with, I don’t know that he would come right out and tell his mom in the first episode, “I’m not gonna fall in love.” To me that reads like part of his initial “I’m just a kid” denial.

Blasphemy! The “Neverending Story” duet was not only one of the most charming and entertaining scenes of the season, it was one of the most crucial to putting across the central theme of the season: the idea that in the face of oppressive pressure to stagnate and conform, it is actually good and valuable for people to…

Clearly, any exploration of Will’s sexuality is still totally subtextual, but I have a hard time reading Mike’s comment to mean anything other than that Will is gay—particularly since the main alternate explanation, that Will is still just a kid, is ultimately exposed as a self-deception he needs to overcome in order…

But the flayed aren’t portrayed as the hated Other from which society recoils. They’re portrayed as an extreme of social conformity. They’re a hive mind of small-town folk converted around the dining room table while “American Pie” plays on the soundtrack. They’re sexist good ol’ boys still seething with contempt for…

Unpopular opinion here: though it’s widely accepted that the first season of Veronica Mars is the best and had the most satisfying season-long mystery, I hated the resolution provided in the finale—including the revelation of the murderer, which has basically no connection to the complicated intrigue slowly parceled…

I think McKinnon is super talented, but the lazy writing in the past few seasons has put her on a Kristen Wiig trajectory of drastically diminishing returns.

At a certain point I decided that Sigourney Weaver should do the voice of Charlie, and I can hear her say “Hello, Angels” so clearly in my head that I think any other option is going to sound weird to me.

I hope it’s because they can’t take selfies in the mirror or something like that, because the shows clearly established that they do show up in photographs and on video.

Oh, maybe, though that’s a weird argument to frame as “[Angel] had no soul . . . Spike is the one who got his soul back.”

I’m sorry, what? Angel was cursed, and the effect of that curse was that he got his soul back.

Yeah, Eleanor was just about to make out with VR!Simone when Chidi pulled her out of the simulation.

No, it was definitely season 7. I remember hearing about it last year. I assume it was meant to be the last, horrible step in her descent, as she’s abandoned by Jaime and then loses their child.

Yeah, the quote thing is a pretty ingenious copyright trap, but it’s of little value if you don’t own the copyright. Heck, Genius is probably in more risk of legal action than Google if it’s reproducing song lyrics in full without the permission of the publishers.

I’m guessing (hoping?) the prankees will ultimately get paid at least as much as they expected to earn if their “part-time job” actually existed as initially described to them. Hopefully the producers were at least smart enough to go for a vibe that’s like “You thought you’d be moving boxes for two days, but instead…

I mean, Michael Crichton’s sequel to Jurassic Park centers around the most popular character from the film version even though he died in the book, so it’s not unheard-of.