Some of it worked, but then there was Benedict Cumberbatch.

This show! It got that really lived-in feel while somehow still being full of tension and having great music and a brilliant dynamic between the actors. Plus always so good to see some bi representation (that's presented as normal, even if Joe himself is a bit..Joe). It's all too rare.

Oh man I'd love to see a winter set version of WHAS at some creepy New England house like the one in Let's Scare Jessica to Death. That and no weird politician sideplot BUT maybe ghosts. And skipping.

I read this in a really bad Russian accent as it sounds like something a Soviet-era comedian would say. In America all women like Friends women! Loud and drink coffee!!

That is the loveliest sentiment and should be in a poem of its own.

Friends is now inseparable in my mind from this poem about hating Monica: https://thespinoff.co.nz/fe…
A sample: "She makes me want to stand in an abandoned Ukrainian parking lot / And scream her name at a bunch of dead crows."

I love it, I want more of it. Rip into obscure and feeble works for us!

Someone suggested 'oreo cookie flavour' to me, now I can't think of anything else. Would it be tiny cookies inside of the regular oreo cookie, or would it be a kind of version of double stuffed or something else entirely?

Are there any mainstream films with gay/bi superheroes at their heart (and not just unsaid) I guess maybe Deadpool (though I haven't seen it because the sense of humour didn't look like it fit mine)

You know what, yeah. That movie has so much queerness in it.

Yes it was very welcome - I feel like it's about time to have an updated Celluloid Closet. What films of the 21st century have a queer subtext? What are the great openly LGBT+ films of our time?

I'm reading Record of a Night too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, which is three novellas sort of roughly cobbled together in a beautiful package. The first, the title sequence, is a bit like someone very boring describing their fever dreams to you - without being in any way immersive. The second I'm enjoying a lot, though…

I did! Was actually thinking of that when I wrote this. Who knew that show would be quite so…much.

I've almost passed out many times in various media because I am squeamish to my core but the worst was reading Jamrach's Menagerie on the train I fainted, came to and *then* had a panic attack because I'd just realised I'd fainted. I didn't manage to finish the book after that.

Oh me too, I'll probably always be hopeful for something as deeply affecting as Eternal Sunshine and as fun as Adaptation.

Being John Malkovich has John Cusack's character, who is a puppeteer, control John Malkovich's body like a puppet. I think the jury's out.

Was that Being John Malkovich? Yes, it's the mundane quality coupled with the sense that Kaufman thinks he is giving us deep messages that are actually …not. I utterly love Eternal Sunshine, so I don't know what happened. Maybe I just like the presentation more because the sense of a closed loop was fine where the…

Just remembered my friends and I watching with mirth as a group of teen boys left the cinema twenty minutes into There Will Be Blood, presumably because There Had Not Yet Been Blood.

Being too cheap, I have never walked out of a film unless you count taking an extended toilet break during Under Milk Wood (the recent film version with Charlotte Church). It was utterly execrable. I mean really just some bad bbc adaptation + boring sexual fetish stuff thrown in for effect shite.

I'm on a Julie Byrne kick - 'follow my voice' is just so smokey and dream-heavy.
In contrast Wild Beast's Boy King has been slightly letting me down in parts. Seems like some sleazy electropop can be too sleazy, you know?