That sums it up perfectly. If you give him a professional camera guy and lighting crew and some real actors they will make it superficially look like a real movie, but it's completely empty underneath those trappings and that's on Jason.

When the thing being reviewed is a made for TV movie produced for a network that has a very popular Internet streaming service for its content, then I don't think it's unreasonable to judge the content by how it looks in the medium many/most of its audience will see it.

I expected it to be mediocre, but I didn't expect it to be as bad as it was. I don't think there was a single joke that landed in the entire movie, and while everyone was right about Fiona being underdeveloped the same could be said about almost every other character.

According to an interview she gave this weekend, she had the money for the stunt as originally planned and HBO shut it down because of safety concerns. They made it look like a budget issue in the editing of the reality show, but that's not what actually happened.

You can add Angelina Jolie to that list as well. She's getting the control off of her reputation as a star rather than a director, to be fair, but Universal just gave her a rumored $30 million to shoot a movie no one wants to see because they're desperate to keep her on side.

The problem predates Gimple. Remember when they decided to lower Glenn into a well of zombies?

I laugh a little every time a commenter says "but all the actors and the HBO people love Jason, they say so in their talking heads!" Maybe they like him and maybe they don't, but they're obviously going to say they do because they have skin in the game and don't want to be the person who shit talked the director.

Because the cars were all crunched up from the impact. They showed a quick shot of Jason or someone else looking at the side where they hit (which wasn't the side we could see) and saying they weren't going to be driving anywhere again that night.

At this point, the person I'm most annoyed with is Marc. He has clearly identified a major problem that is threatening the quality of the movie — the tension and lack of communication between the director and line producer — but just stands around looking pained instead of doing something to try to fix it.

I'm guessing you meant Kate, Duchess of Cambridge? The Duchess of Cornwall is Camilla, which is… not the look you were going for there.

I found the emphasis on that in the review kind of odd, too. I mean, if you don't like the material with the kids (some of it worked for me, some of it didn't), that's obviously fair. But I don't see how a post-episode legal notice about some of the characters being fictional really impacts anything at all.

Libby was also an adult at the time. Which doesn't erase all of the moral questions about how we depict real people in our fictionalized entertainment, but I can see why you might want to be particularly careful to emphasize that the stories you've made up about children aren't real.

I think I know what you mean, and I agree to some extent. Mad Men was very stylized. It was always clear—sometimes distractingly so—that every single visual element had been painstakingly chosen and executed (whether it was the picture-perfect ones, or the deliberately messy ones). That worked for Mad Men, by and…

Exactly. It's possible Unreal will handle it realistically, but even if they do I would rather watch them make Everlasting than look for new jobs and sit in depositions.

Also, while I was happy to hear UnReal was renewed, I'm disappointed they're already teasing a new bachelor for next season. I was really hoping we would get a female suitor next time, the way The Bachelor alternates with The Bachelorette. I'd really like to see what they would do with the flipped gender dynamics of…

While I also thought this episode went too far, I think my complaint was a little different than the review's. I didn't necessarily have difficulty with whether the characters would do the various things that got us to this point — although all of the terrible decisions they made in this episode were worse than the…

Because he's a man in Hollywood who doesn't have to try. See also Adam Sandler even at actual premieres of his movies.

I buy the Shia thing because I think they've shown us that her disastrous efforts on the show are a product of her trying to step up and compete with Rachel (who she resents for getting the second chance after her meltdown, and also sees as vulnerable for the same reason). I can buy that Shia was basically fine in…

I think they're actually all in each episode, because we usually get at least one group line-up shot (we had a couple of those this week).

I liked those choices a lot, actually, because I think they're deliberately saying something about what people from marginalized groups have to do to make it in the world of that show. Just like the contestants he was coaching, the black staff member isn't going to be the one who gets the prize unless he plays the…