The negative connotations are the loss of possibility.

“Rich people don’t have money anymore, we laugh at them trying to be poors like us.” is pretty much the conceit of both shows.

no kidding. but not all of those shows took one murder and solved it over one season and it to stretch out the run time had subplots not directly involved with the main story of solving the murde. I bbrouht up The Killing ecause it’s recent enough and the similarities are striking

“No, Glover really isn’t that smart...he’s totally leaning into the stupid argument because we’re 6 months out from finding out he’s a rohypnol subscriber or some other horrible thing.”

Just like how “Louie” became an overrated show once Louis CK the person fell from grace.

You’re the first person I’ve heard claim that Mare of Easttown is worse than The Killing. And isn’t the full name “The Killing (fuck you, The Killing)“?

although she was “guilty as accused”, the situation around Alexi McCammond (almost Teen Vogue editor) was also pretty crappy, and really highlighted how some people would not accept anything but absolute perfection.

The desire to hold people accountable is good.

Ah, yes, the Venture Brothers, famously not a direct ripoff of something.

Don’t think there’s anything very unreasonable about that. He’s airing someone out in an attempt to (fairly or otherwise) malign them in the public eye. It’s only natural for the public to want to get the details of what went down and not just accept vague insinuation as a referendum on someone else’s character.…

“I have to get THE STOOONE”

That and the fact that she's a former aerobics instructor... this is probably the one thing that's in her wheelhouse. 

Ehhh, her acting skills really are workout video quality, tbqh.  That scene where she had to look emotional in WW84, it was not pretty.

It’s like seeing Apollo 11 landing on the Moon and saying ‘wow Richard Nixon did a hell of a job landing on the Moon’.

Musk does interesting things (not as in designing stuff, but as in managing an interestingly daring company and pushing for interesting space tech innovation), and I’m not too unhappy that his weird Tintin project was selected for the moon (better him than Bezos, I suppose).

L. Ron Musk is the god-emperor of the neckbeards, and for a good reason. He’s everything that self-declared weird smart kid wishes to be.

You’ve just described bread and circuses to nerds.

I’d take issue with the claim that Stalin was the least gifted of all the world leaders with the public; he definitely wasn’t a great orator like Trotsky or, to take his fascist nemesis, Hitler, and anyways the general Marxist taste for numbingly long speeches was an impediment to anyone being seen in that way, but…