I haven’t seen it either, but it was well-reviewed.  It did have the feeling of something critics liked more than the general public, though.

Given how it was apparently recorded, it be shocking if it were somehow good. And on top of that, while I have a lot of affection for the Wu, their best albums are from decades ago, and why would you bring your A-game to an audience of one bored millionaire and his cronies? I’d much rather see a show at CBGB than a…

That was, sadly, an internet urban legend:

Yeah, the main issue at this point with O’Reilly is not that he’s some reasonable opponent who disagrees on policy or even some calculating dickhead who is rallying an easily manipulated base for clicks; it’s that he’s a sexual predator who’s had tens of millions of dollars paid out to settle the complaints against…

Maybe you should write your own reviews then, happywinks.

It’s pretty funny that he walks right up to saying “We’re going to start putting anything that doesn’t look like garbage on HBO proper; going forward, Max will be the toilet where we dump our shit.”

I’d also point out that a lone female accuser who was also suing for half a million dollars would be absolutely crucified online, and there is no way it would kill the guy’s career by itself. Casey Affleck settled two different sexual harassment lawsuits in 2010 and has appeared in 16 movies since then, including last…

I found the McHale scene was a bit undercut by all the scenes of Carmy flashing back to his tutelage and incorporating his advice/demands in the present day, contrasted with the kinder approach of Terry and his other mentors, often in the same scene. Carmy wrestling with the tension between “that guy sucked as a human…

Agreed on all counts. I still think the show is very good, but it was a defensible choice for best of the year in its last two seasons. I would’ve respected them more if they had just said “fuck it, this one’s all character vignettes” instead of teasing things like “Will Syd sign the contract?” or “What does the…

I went to the Alien rerelease lately, which is pretty accessible as classics go. It was empty, to the point that I was surprised my local theater felt it was worth it to keep running it. Do you live near a film school or something?

I wish more people got this. First, talent and ethics are completely unrelated. Many good people suck at their jobs, and a number of assholes have valuable skills. We’re in an awkward transition period because we let screen presence excuse sexual assault for a century, so there was no career incentive for big stars…

It’s always so fucking creepy when people go to bat for some serial groper to be cast in high profile roles again. People are excluded from those roles for being too old, too fat, too thin, the wrong race, the wrong gender, openly gay, trans, and a thousand other inconsequential things. But the fact that the studios…

Vin Diesel did voice Groot in most of them, though.

I mean the last time he won.  He was elected for the same reason people watch rodeo clowns, ran the country about as well as one, and then we were desperate enough to demand a return to normalcy.  But now it’s been four years of Biden running the country competently if unexcitingly, and I’m not at all confident that…

I mean, yeah.  That’s literally how Trump got elected last time.

I just want to say that I appreciate the underdog fight you’re fighting here. I’m generally on board with the idea that 1.) she handled some things poorly, and 2.) the way she was treated is reflective of a long-running culture of sexism in Hollywood can both be true, but not on how much emphasis is being put on the…

Ah, yes, the Taliban, famously supportive of the trans community and staunch opponents of the traditional gender binary.

Yeah, and while theoretically you can pace yourself, the risk of inadvertent spoilers and the fact that the zeitgeist and all public and private discussion will have moved on in a week or so means the pressure is on to get through it as quick as you can, particularly for shows you really like. It’s like how the…

Ah, yes, the Inhumans model.  

I feel like the fun of the original UFC was that, in theory, it was a total free-for-all where we’d kinda see what came out on top. You couldn’t bite people or go for the eyes, but otherwise go (for the) nuts. And since that had never been tried before in any sort of official way, a lot of hype was about finding out…