Yes, we know, not all dicks are Republicans. (But most dicks, directly or indirectly, further Republican interests.)

Impeachment takes priority over other normal business. It would have delayed the hearing for weeks if not months. There was a ton they could have done but chose not to other than wag their finger.

My prediction for the Uncharted movie:

Best episode of the season so far, imo.

And is it weird that I IMMEDIATELY recognized Flula Borg’s voice?

the whiplash from the last five, far wackier episodes... was enough to give me a pretty serious case of critical whiplash...

It’s never reached the highs of the original seasons (nor would any sane person expect it to), but Danger Island and 1999 were both entertaining enough. But you’re also not really missing anything.

Wow — I had no idea the ratings were so good lately. Just goes to show how many people abandoned ship during the coma seasons.

“This represents a conspicuous shift from the strategy Baron Cohen’s films have typically relied on, where Americans need only the mildest prodding to show their polite-faced worst.”

Im confused because this reads like a B+ at worst.  I'm gonna watch it of course but the wording of this article was more postive then the rating.

Look, can we get a fucking moratorium on Trump jokes already? I think the last time anyone made a funny one was like summer 2017 (and that’s being generous) and ever since then comedians/writers/artists have been falling over themselves to beat that same dead horse. Orange man bad, I fucking get it, but especially for…

A climactic encounter with another prominent Republican pushes further while still going more or less where the audience might expect, toward an incident that would constitute a front-page embarrassment five or 10 years ago.

I feel like seeing this in theaters, that was the big screaming/laughing/holy shit moment. I had multiple different people recall to me their experiences of having a packed theater just LOSE THEIR MINDS during that sequence. Definitely not the most pointed or satirical moment of that movie, but I’d argue that it’s a…

A B- is literally mixed-positive. If I give a movie a B- on here, it registers as positive on Rotten Tomatoes. The actual designation for an academic B is “above average.”

That’s what marketing is. Seriously, Vought tells people to feel safe. The public doesn’t see bad signs most of the time because Homelander flies around the vast majority of the time only pausing for sound bites. We see the bad stuff, and no one else does.

My point is that your definition of “believable” is outdated. People in universe believe in Homelander because they want to, and because he has a vast media machine backing him. In reality, that would be enough. We are shown the times he can’t keep up the charade because that’s what works for the story, but everyone…

“Homelander is insultingly unconvincing as the clean-cut Superman/Captain America type he’s clearly supposed to evoke.” Wrong. Anthony Starr is killing it in this role. What the public sees and what we (the viewer) sees are two different things.

One thing is clear: I am definitely hopping mad about The Boys, a show I both praise and criticize.

I got more of an OJ Simpson vibe than Trump. Oh here’s this handsome, charismatic hero that we’ve all grown up with. He says the right thing in front of a camera, he’s made us smile and laugh in commercials and movies, but who really knows what lies behind the curtain. I thoroughly enjoyed Starr’s performance.  

Maybe it’s just me, but even in the comics Homelander's menace was blatant from the outset. I mean, the name itself should be a giveaway, given its ultra-rightwing nationalist connotations.