On the plus side, at least it doesn’t actually star Ben Platt.

Or The Closer

I just find it funny how the internet is simultaneously terrified of spoilers and ravenous for leaks. 

Damn. I don’t watch the show and don’t care about spoilers in general, but this is a blatant “fuck you” to readers of this site, and it’s sad to see. I’ve kept coming here out of habit even as it’s slid into total irrelevance, and this latest bullshit just makes me realize what a waste of time this place is. The only…

Well, I guess I can see this working, if instead of simply adapting the books again, they treat this as an opportunity to retell the Harry Potter story with the benefit of hindsight. JKR’s vision for the series clearly evolved between the first book and the last, so it would be interesting to see the entire story from…

I’m not being snarky when I say that I wish these reviews were written with ChatGPT. They’re obviously being produced by someone with no love or any particular interest in SNL, for whom writing these is a chore, which is sad. I hope they’re at least being paid decently.

This is the best take I’ve seen so far in this discussion. This is a world in which security and violence are inextricably linked. Look at how Ellie grew up—her first protector was Riley, someone who routinely beat the shit out of anyone who posed a threat to Ellie. And she’s been raised by FEDRA, whose whole thing is…

Grogu is The Mandalorian. 

You know, the main reason I keep coming back to these lifeless, zombied-out SNL reviews every Sunday is to figure out whether or not this column is auto-generated by an AI. Every single review reads like the same basic review template, with names and titles switched out and a “thumbs up/down” assigned randomly (since…

I’ve been 90% convinced of this for weeks. At this point, I’m actually hoping someone is generating these with an AI and there isn’t an actual human being churning out this lifeless slurry week after week. I don’t know who “Trae DeLellis” is or whatever he had going on before this spiritual cul-de-sac, but if they’re…

It was our last, best hope for peace!

Going into this movie, I knew about the horrific rape scene, but I didn’t know about the shot of Pierre smashing the guy’s head in with a fire extinguisher. I’ve seen a lot of gruesome horror films, but that shot is the first time a movie has actually made me come close to vomiting. (IIRC, the first half of the movie…

At this point, Cleese should be cast as the Major!

The decision to make it into an action RPG really took away a lot of what made Origins work so well.

I hate how interview quotes like this get thrown to the masses as clickbait. And people respond as if the subject arranged a press conference to announce whatever inflammatory statement, instead of simply trying to respond to a question they were asked in an interview. Like, “why did they feel they had to say…

Have you guys ever tried the Joel Robuchon mashed potatoes? It’s creamy rather than fluffy (with the Yukon Golds), and with all the butter it’s more like a potato mousse or something. I actually prefer a more lumpy, rustic mash, but this is a nice decadent treat:

Stary Observations

This entire review reads like it was generated by ChatGPT.