Explanation accepted!

The trailer is on YouTube, and annoyingly the Bates character introduces herself as “yes, Matlock, just like on the old TV show” — which undermines any attempt at saying “this is a show with, we hope, similar appeal” and leaves you with only “IP! Amirite?!”

Hand-waving madly here, but how do you inject ads into an API’s results without getting into an arms race with API users who filter out the ads?

Yeah, I’m very pro-writer, by inclination and by heritage (family members), but I keep seeing this stupid complaint. “The headline shouldn’t say ‘SHOW SHUTS DOWN PRODUCTION BECAUSE OF STRIKE’, it should say ‘SHOW SHUTS DOWN PRODUCTION BECAUSE STUDIOS DON’T PAY WRITERS ENOUGH’, and this just proves that the press is…

Or The Prestige, which, on rewatch, tells you about a dozen times what’s going on but you don’t realize what you’re being told.

The first obvious answer is that this feature will be opt-in on a per-caller basis — that is, I have to mark each contact that I want to be allowed to push image or text.

Incidentally, the Doc Ock in the game is also top-tier; he probably wouldn’t exist as such without the Molina performance, but still.

My Name is Earl (2006 vs Mulaney’s 2014) is an AA show without the alcoholism, just the amends. I mean, where do you think the name comes from!? “Hi, my name is X, and I’m an alcoholic...” — right?

I’m not sure if TED talks being very close to social media is itself part of your bit or not.

Somehow none of the reporting that I’ve seen addresses the fact that an eating disorder hotline is somehow part of some capitalism deep enough that it fired everyone for unionizing, which...is illegal?  

Piker.  (Get it? Pike-r?)

I did watch and enjoy the first season, eventually, and had the later seasons on my list of “get back to someday”.

Something else.  The CW Stargirl will be deleted by Max, not Disney.  (I’m assuming, eventually.)

Based on this:

Here’s a series of “really?”s on another Burt Bacharach song. At least to me, since I hadn’t known any of the constituent facts:

Add “What you need to know....” Fuck you, you don’t know me or my needs.

Isn’t this how Remote Play works now, though?  Not that I’ve tried it for real outside my home.

That was also said about fellow CW series The Vampire Diaries: it burned through plot like never before. Probably not a total coincidence.

Not a callback, but a reference from a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to bring up: at one point a soccer ball hits (and cracks?) the window of Higgins’ office, and he mutters “Juuuust a little bit outside”, which is a reference to Major League, which the show is pretty open about stealing its initial setup from.…

I’m working on the fact that a radio cooking show was extremely popular.  (Although once you understand that they had radio ventriloquists...)