Less a “Who’s that?” than a “Who was that?”.

They could just use footage from The Sarah Silverman Program, the episode where there’s a flashback about her various abortions, that uses Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” as the soundtrack.

Nick Loeb’s father is Jewish.

Note to the editor: there’s no point in writing that the final season will be its bloodiest yet. The point of a final season is that there’s no season after this one that might be even bloodier.

I guess he spent more time touring with The Pogues than recording this album.

You mean, “Netflix’s first martial arts series”. Iron Fist was a tribute to the Clouseau vs Cato segments in the Pink Panther movies.

Joe Strummer was still under contract with Sony Music, due to being on Epic during his days with The Clash. He had issues with being on a major label, and tried to get the contract annulled, which is why he wasn’t keen on releasing stuff that could be picked by them. Near the end of the nineties, they agreed that…

Joe Strummer got his alias from the fact that, even if he was left-handed, he learnt to play guitar from a right-handed guy, and he couldn’t do much on it besides strumming.

The main reason for which Russians don’t work in Indiana Jones is that communists are materialists and atheists. Nazis had a mystical element, displayed on ceremonies that bordered on cult, that communism never had, even in China in the Mao times.

It takes place in 1957, four years after the death of Stalin.

Spielberg doesn’t want to use Nazis anymore in escapist fun. After he made Schindler’s List, he decided that they were no laughing matter.

It wasn’t just ossification. As a feature published by The Hollywood Reporter showed, John Lasseter started to get out of control around 2006-2007. Until then, people like Joe Ranft or Steve Jobs could reign him in. Jobs even insisted on power being shared at top management, as he was afraid of what would happen when…

The Variety piece is actually an edited version of something Smolcic published on Medium at the same time:

Most successful Bad Robot shows developed after Lost (so, not Alcatraz) have an implicit writing rule, which is not to introduce new mysteries until some of the previous arcs are resolved. Fringe did this, which was crucial for it not to be another X-Files with tentacular and sometimes contradictory mythology. It…

Basically, David Lynch is explaining that Trump may be the manure that will allow beautiful flowers to grow eventually.

That’s the heart of the issue. Trevor Noah doesn’t try to promote the idea of an existing third party becoming a legitimate political force. His words are about a system that enforces two parties, without any party having to change that much when they lose an election, as they’re sure to return to power a few years…

The main issue is that the group The A.V. Club belongs to, Univision, is debt-ridden, as the current owners financed its acquisition this way a decade ago. They have tried for years to create synergies, but the core of the group, the Univision network, has seen its audience, and its profits, dwindle, while it was…

I guess that most of you are taking it the wrong way. Trevor Noah doesn’t campaign for a third party. He campaigns for a multiple party system, which, in most European countries, is achieved through a two-round voting system. First round, vote for your champion, second round, pick the lesser of two evils.

Why is The Affair still on?

Yeah, I get it, except that the season takes place in 1937, two decades after the Great War in which at least 1.7 million people in the French population paid for their life. But the choice itself of the word “impossible” in a sentence in French, then Mallory replying “How French” is a reference to the Napoléon quote.