I’ll have to look into that, it sounds interesting. Fascinating in that the timeline of DC and TWOP coincides with the rise of blogging as a mainstream form of information dissemination, and of the rise of the internet as a mainstream home presence overall.

I always joke that The Good Place is a movie by Lynch fanboy standards since it has chapter titles at the beginning of every episode.

I’m totally on board with those distinctions being muddied, as in the case of Small Axe. I’m just not a fan of the “Twin Peaks Season 3 is a movie” argument for the reasons Doctor Boo mentioned below. It’s always felt like pretentious fanboys trying to elevate a season of a TV show to the status of a film under the…

Agreed, although I wouldn’t consider The Return typically episodic either. The musical breaks felt more like intermissions than closings. I also think Lynch would be the last person to care how it’s classified. I think he just likes to work in whatever format offers him the largest playground. His fans seem to be far…

Here’s a quote.  I don’t know if it’s the definitive statement that people suggest exists.

https://deadline.com/2017/05/twin-peaks-david-lynch-cannes-showtime-disruptors-news-1202090469/

I feel like productions involving the abuse of teenagers (and portraying it as abuse, as opposed to some kind of “love story”) would be more effective if the “teens” in the production actually looked like the kids they are. Pubescent, yes. Close to adulthood, yes. But still adolescent.

But the scene the the article praises is completely alien from Hoffman’s actual views. Here’s another quote from Steal This Book:

Someone doesn’t remember Early 2017 Discourse. Melissa McCarthy did the Sean Spicer thing, Trump was (supposedly) pissed and embarrassed that his guy was being played by a girl (1), everyone (#resistance Twitter) immediately decided that it would be the highest form of trollery if the entire Trump administration was…

My favorite unintentional laugh of the night was in the Stu/Stan parody song, when Pete went “Ladies and gentlemen, Elton John!”, a couple people in the audience let out an audible gasp in excitement thinking that Elton was about to cameo in a sketch for the first time...but nope, just Bowen Yang in a wig.

“...the rare 90-minute comedy that I want to be longer”

“I’m not from Appalachia, but confidently state the reason people think this isn’t a good depiction of the place I’m not from is because they don’t like its politics.”

Despite scene-stealing roles in everything from Wedding Crashers to Bachelorette to the last few seasons of Arrested Development...

Excellent review. It was nice to read an honest accounting after seeing a few of these reviewers resort to fanboy gushing no matter how poor the production. So much material trash in this dumpster fire. In no particular order:
Any killer would have been covered in blood, brains, an bone bits, but the writing was too…

I have a hard time getting how a jury would use the information of Jonathan’s dead sister to convict him of Elena’s murder. What does one have to do with another? It doesn’t prove he swung the hammer. Doesn’t even prove him capable of it since his sister didn’t die by violence at his hand.

I feel like if you go to your beachfront property to hide a hammer, and you’re choosing between the big, wide, expansive ocean where a hammer will pretty definitely sink, and the fireplace in your backyard, one of those is an obvious choice, and one is kind of lazy writing.

“Ehh, Miles, I dunno bud -- you sure you wanna go electric? Seems a bit new-fangled to me, all these longhairs makin noise” -- John Ratzenberger, playing Nat Hentoff as an anthropomorphic badger

On the one hand, his vocal anti-trans BS notwithstanding, I have some level of sympathy for the guy. On the other hand, while it’s easy to think of it just in terms of it in terms of Chappelle vs. Viacom, I can’t help but remember what a mess he left when he departed his show right after signing that massive ($55M, in…

It was far from a shitty contract. $55 million for two seasons as well as half of the DVD sales retroactive to season 1. It was actually a ridiculously good deal for the time. The DVDs were the best selling DVDs ever. Chappelle would’ve made a ridiculous amount of money.

He says that he didn’t get “paid” for the show, and that people think he got rich from that show, which I assume means he doesn’t get paid every time that show airs. But I would be damn curious to know whether he got a lump sum from Viacom when he originally signed away his rights to the show, because I truly can’t…

Marion Davies never married Hearst but they lived togheter for some time and were in a relationship for 30 years.