It definitely would’ve been the first one of these that Jost “won,” but bringing in “Hattie” to sit next to him probably tipped it back.  The segment brings out the best in both of them.

There is significant variance on Drunk History, but they still, bare minimum, have to get through a whole narrative. They’re loose and talkative, but a lot of them don’t appear any worse than a glass of wine or so past the point where you shouldn’t drive (exceptions obviously exist).

There’s a decent chance Seth Meyers…

I’m curious how this actually saves money. Did they purposefully build the sets smaller knowing they were going to cast shorties? I don’t think I buy that. Was he otherwise planning to digitally enhance every scene to make the sets look bigger? That seems like it would cost significantly more than a million dollars…

Is that a real option here, though? Because if they just have it lying around, then yeah, fuck it, then just put that out. But if, like Snyder, he wants a shot at a $70 million redo, that seems like one of the worst investments in recent cinematic history even if you concede that it was a slight improvement on the…

Yeah, I doubt anything about sexual attraction actually changed; I think a bigger chunk of the Kinsey scale just feels comfortable identifying as something other than straight. Like if you were 75% straight and exclusively forming serious relationships with the opposite sex, but you occasionally had a same sex fling…

She also apparently thought everybody already knew? I know profiles are inherently one-sided, but it reads like she dropped it pretty casually in a conversation about how she related to other women when she was younger, not a grilling about her sexuality.   The reporter even comments on the generational shift that…

Fair. The 6,000 figure is the number — again, of Palestinian CHILDREN — who have been killed in this particular outbreak of violence as of November 23rd, by the exact government we’re very likely to send almost a third of a billion dollars worth of weapons to.  The total number over all years is definitely far higher.

Is it a thing? Like do they ever get together for club meetings or get any benefit from it? It seems mostly like a list of people that have hosted five times whose big reward is a sketch about it when they’re “inducted,” which is pretty much what Hanks got.

Between that and “as a TV lesbian, I’m offended by this group of actual lesbians,” it’s just possible she might not be the ally that making the right Instagram post implies.

It’s ridiculous how much ink is being spent arguing with a small minority of American college students who will have zero impact on anything happening in Palestine while Congress is set to overwhelmingly approve upwards of $300 million in weapons for Israel. A bill for over a billion dollars in supplementary military…

Yeah, the thing is that online, he can block and ignore people who aren’t giving him the feedback he wants, or engage in low stakes flame wars against perceived enemies, backed by an army of sycophants. It’s a bad model for your real world personality because “sitting there uncomfortably” is a far more common reaction…

Agreed. Finding out the creators of Atlanta and Fleabag were teaming up for a Mr & Mrs. Smith remake was like finding out PTA and Scorsese were teaming up for the feature-length debut of Manimal.

I’d imagine it’s the high risk of being detected and threat of being fired, shunned by your peers, and blackballed from the industry. It’s kinda like asking “what’s to stop them from just translating and recycling old Latvian TV scripts?” Like, sure, you could do that, and you might even get away with it for a while,…

Both of those outcomes lead to writers being replaced by AIs relatively quickly, though. As soon as it gets around that even Writer X thinks the robots can convincingly duplicate their output, they’re getting fired, and shortly after that, so are a bunch of other writers. It’s definitely in the writers’ interest…

But it does illustrate how this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. There are no streaming only movies in the zeitgeist, a movie made for a streaming service gets some buzz going, it gets a quickie theatrical release to qualify it for awards season, now it’s not longer a streaming exclusive, so there are no streaming only…

This is a bit of tangent, but #5 is also why Welcome to Wrexham’s Cinderella story rings a little false. Two guys dumped tens of millions of dollars into the team and now it’s a better squad. But, you know, no shit. The inadvertent thesis of the show is that clever strategies or even knowing what you’re doing is…

It feels like Marvel, post-Howard/Norton, made a very conscious decision to hire unknowns and (then) B & C listers that they could lock into multi-picture deals for cheap, and now they’ve gotten to the point where stars need them more than vice versa. It very much feels like they have most of the leverage in a fresh…

I’d say it was like a season too late. The kid(s) taking a run at him and failing probably didn’t need to happen three separate times, and the third season felt a little anti-climactic since it was repeating those same beats again. The writing is still very solid and it doesn’t ruin the show for me, but now it has…

These really seem to be the “10 most disappointing finales,” as 7-9 of these shows are at least minor classics and/or the buzziest shows of their eras. I’m sure the finales of Cop Rock and My Mother the Car are objectively worse than all of these (except maybe Dexter), but nobody expected them to be good, so...

It’s certainly not the worst thing he could’ve said, but without any kind of mea culpa, there’s something transparently disingenuous about “I’ve done nothing but shit on the guy and minimize his contributions for thirty years, but now that he’s dead, he was a genius that always knew how much I valued him.”