I want to see how fast a pit crew can put on chains.

My guess it that it became a game to him. I’m sure he didn’t mind the thought of getting his license, but after a few years he probably thought “I wonder how long I can get away with this?” The answer was 50 years.

And how many drivers who have passed the test make it fifty years without getting pulled over?

The first rule of Unlicensed Drivers Club is you don’t talk about Unlicensed Drivers Club. 

This is the perfect encapsulation of ‘libertarian thought’: Our whole motto is ‘free choice’ but the second it impedes my ability to dictate what you do, it’s gotta be stopped!

High school definitely explains some of it. BUT ... I remember my dad also being pretty darn convinced D-FENS was the good guy.  hoo boy!

Hmmm ... while I want to believe that people had varying takes on this movie (consistent with the Newsweek headline) my lived-in experience was definitely different. I was a senior in high school when this came out and my recollection is that everyone in my orbit viewed D-FENS unequivocally as the hero. I remember…

I can think of one precedent. The infamous Home episode of The X-Files (s04e02) incorporated the Johnny Mathis song “Wonderful! Wonderful!” in a pretty violent scene. Mathis refused to let them use his version because of the graphic nature of the scene so the producers recorded a cover version with a singer that…

I’d never even heard of it but, regardless, pretty dick move.

A new era of tv where renewels don’t actually mean anything anymore.

That is just a staggering level of false equivalency. So much so I don’t even know where to begin.

yes, that’s the joke

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Yeah, I have to admit, HBOMAX is/was great. (I feel like your the first person to admit that out loud!) Their originals all felt like they had the same handpicked quality level of HBO proper. I was a subscriber back when it was an Amazon “channel”. Then they cut that off, making it harder to access.

HBO Max has been great. What the new guy who only knows reality shows is doing is not great.

Who do you think is responsible for turning Discovery into lowest-common denominator reality trash?

I’ll give ya ONE guess...

Zaslav was head of Discovery prior to the merger, right?  He’s the one that transformed it from high brow education stuff to cheap-as-dirty-reality-trash.  He’s a one trick pony trying the same method on HBO?  Maybe?

I find it incredibly hard to believe that Westworld costs more to have on the channel than it generates in subscription revenue.

Love Life (which was great, btw), sure. Infinity Train (also great), probably.

But Westworld? There are people signing up specifically to see that show.

It’s starting to look like this isn’t…

Zaslav’s strategy seems to be the equivalent of “why don’t they make the whole plane out of the black box?” That’s a hacky punchline and so is he.

Jeez, is HBO gonna start charging for blue check marks now?