I work as an EA to a managing partner of a family business. There can definitely be no hanky panky going on, but you do become the one person they trust to get shit done.  You share a laugh over stuff, sometimes they need to vent about their family or employees and trust you to keep your mouth shut. 

“If he can do people, he can do rabbits”

My take is Greg instinctively knows Ewan is likely to use the promise of that $250 million to manipulate him for another decade then give the inheritance to Greenpeace anyway. From the glimpses we’ve gotten of Greg’s mother she may have done nothing with her life except wait for that money, and she’s cut off too for…

Great comparison- I loved how darkly funny it was as it became clear that Logan wasn’t well, and everyone was going to freak out less about that than how it affects his decisions they were trying to interpret

It does if you were paying attention to what Logan offered him which is what Greg always wanted to do.

I loved Roman’s “Fucking Hercule Poirot of fucking piss over here.” All of the Pissmad anxiety mirroring The Madness Of King George

This episode reminded me of Death of Stalin in that the moment the big man is incapacitated and out of the picture, they all become headless chickens that are still terrified of their leader.

The thing is, Danny as the “blonde white savior” stereotype is a blatant misreading of the character, and one that’s often espoused by people who aren’t familiar with the character at all. Danny is a screw-up who lucked into the powers, and is often considered one of the worst Iron Fist ever.

Will this Iron Fist also be a traumatized, orphaned child who gets indoctrinated into a cult?

The new Fist will begin his debut with Iron Fist #1 in February, and is expected to be a big deal. With one of the big selling points being that he’s Asian,

Was it actually his fault, though? Obviously the act itself was, but was it planned as part of the show and the costume just didn’t hold up? Did he specifically blame her for it afterwards? Like, was he an active participant in the shittiness, or just someone who escaped blame because sexism?

it might borrow from Alex Segura, Matthew Rosenberg, and Joe Eisma’s The Archies, a 2017 series in which Archie and the gang form a band, as groups do.

Chapek will probably find some way to make up the money. I mean, there’s no more free FastPasses or magic bands at the Disney parks. Maybe they’ll start charging for air.

So it took them 2 years from launch to have a quarter that didn’t meet expectations, but still probably outpaced Peacock, Paramount+, Apple+, and HBOmax+?

the bit about not talking to Dunst on set is misleading- in the NYTimes article Dunst talks about how they went to dinner together every week and how wonderfully nice he was. It was ONLY on set that he didn’t talk to her because only on set was he fully in character at all times.

This is exactly the sort of shit that makes me want to pirate games. I haven’t even really dipped my toe into the wide world of game piracy yet, but the fact that on-disc games are moving towards becoming indistinguishable from digital copies is a line too far for me.

I feel like it’s easy to guess it’s a licensing issue here.

Shiv’s arc makes sense- she was never really a liberal, just someone that liked to play the image of independent liberal woman because she wanted to pretend she was better than her father and the rest of the family, and also because Kendall was way ahead of her in the, uh, Succession line.

I found it weird that his decision was made offscreen. The Tom convo scene did not feel like he had made up his mind completely but maybe I'm wrong.