Part of the difference is The Man in the High Castle was created and being run by several Jewish men who have a unique and very important perspective on World War II and the Holocaust, not to mention based on a VERY highly regarded novel. This new HBO show is being created and run by two white guys who mean well but…

The 13th amendment still allows prison labor to be unpaid, effectively meaning slavery is still legal as long as you put the person in jail first. And since our criminal justice system disproportionately jails black people… well, that's kinda state sanctioned slavery. =/

Why didn't HBO just get Kevin Willmott to expand his excellent mockumentary C.S.A.: Confederate States of America into a full show? I understand these two white guys MEAN well, but given their treatment of rape on Game of Thrones, they're completely oblivious to what DOING well actually means.

Oh I don't care at all how you feel, I just thought you'd want a bit of self-awareness, being a huge tool and all. =)

It's getting clearer that this whole situation is just Disney and Brian Henson and Whitmire having some petty personal drama with each other, and now they're airing it out in public.

It's such a fucking pedantic thing to get all high and mighty about. Do you think Romero himself went around butting into conversations with "ACTUALLY the brains thing was from the pseudo-spinoff series." Really?

I should've added lack of self-awareness to my original post…

This is probably the most condescending, smarmy, egotistical piece of crap I've read in a long time. You really felt like it was worth your time to be a dickhead here while people are remembering an influential filmmaker?

You know what's really, really annoying? Not that this very good treatise on Romero's cinematic impact made the minor mistake of mentioning Romero's zombies and brains in the same breath, but all of the assholes here in the comments who have ONLY that to say about this piece, especially when accompanied with the…

I was really disappointed by it at the time, but I think your take is spot on. It's worth it see real-life conservative Dennis Hopper have to lampoon his own beliefs.

Because Disney has done such a poor job of maintaining the Muppets' cultural cache to new generations, they have to rely on older fans if they don't want it to fade away entirely. Firing fucking Kermit is NOT how you do that.

Ugh, Josh Gad as the Penguin would just be… ugh.

What is it with my fellow white people and going straight for the racist comments in situations like these? That tells me that he's always got that just under the surface, waiting to come out.

Yeah, he made a big deal about leaving the GOP a few years back because he didn't think they were conservative enough.

How many prominent registered Independent talk show hosts are actually just Republicans? Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, now Joe Scarborough… Independent doesn't mean anything, it's just a way to feel unique as you vote for the same party anyway.

That especially supports the synergy of Marvel and Disney now, since Disney movies have more orphaned characters than non-orphaned characters, it seems. Easy way to create sympathy for your main character!

"Dad rock" has to be the easiest criticism to make if you're looking to sound like a music critic.

After seeing Baby Driver, I was immediately struck by the similarity of the special mix of music linking an orphaned protagonist to his idealized mother. Given that Baby Driver's script has been finished for a long while, and Edgar Wright was instrumental in the Marvel Cinematic Universe coming into being, I can't…

The GotG mixes sound like they're copied straight off of your local classic rock radio station. Which isn't to say classic rock is bad, but that it's the most obviously, generic, boring set of songs that could have possibly been chosen. They reek of approval by some record executives looking to repackage yesteryear's…

I'm pretty obviously saying Maher's brand is unfunny racist jokes. That's almost literally all he's known for. So yeah, whomever is running his Twitter account is nailing that brand.