I do not sanction this disrespect against Quibi, who did nothing wrong and was too good for this sinful Earth

That’s more or less what I think. When the streamers inevitably implode at some point, Disney+ will likely be one of the survivors. But I do find myself wondering, in idle curiosity, if there was a theoretical number out there that could make Disney buckle.

I wonder how much shit Disney would theoretically have to eat to finally shutter Disney+ and start releasing its IP into the wild again. It’s not doing stellar, but it’s still eating the lunch of basically every streamer except Netflix and Amazon*


*excluding the Chinese ones I don’t know about

1) The prosthetics just further serve to vindicate the crowd of folks who rightly pointed out that Debra Messing is right fucking there

I appreciate your optimism, but Netflix does not do “many seasons”

Or maybe he finds out there’s already an anti-Games movement and he joins up with them. In eastern stories, the hero is rarely just some exceptional loner. They’re usually part of a team. And even when a character is a loner, it’s something like Zatoichi where it’s treated as sad that he can never be part of something…

My off-the-hip pitch for season 2 is to do a contest of champions: bring back every surviving champion from the previous games, as well as the ones from the international games that were hinted at. Gives Gi-hun a neat entry point, and it gets Lee Byung-hun’s Foreman off the sidelines and down in the muck with the rest.

…

If anything, One Piece has more in common with the kind of fantasy written by Robert E. Howard, in that the crew is engaged in an endless journey and remain more or less the same from adventure to adventure (with some exceptions).

I can’t imagine what a logistical nightmare it would be to do a show like this, heavy on FX with few to no standing sets and a very young cast...and to make it all look good on a Netflix budget. But if they insist on going ahead with this, these kids seem alright. And Mackenyu in particular definitely has the…

This show was a pandemic discovery for me, after years of languishing on my to-do list. I’ve rather liked it, and I’m glad to see it going out on its own terms. I hope its availability on streaming ends up vindicating it in the long run, because it feels so underappreciated. And if not, then people will just have to…

Setting aside all the other discussions to be had about the ethics of spotlighting Rowling, especially when the site’s avowed journalistic stance would dictate otherwise:

On one hand, I tend to agree with you. On the other, though, you have Mayim “I’m not antivax, I just believe in my specific case that vaccinations are bad for nebulous hippie reasons” Bialik

...you ever have an embarrassingly belated epiphany that makes you feel like the world’s biggest doof

The best part of the post is how obviously Vin edited it to make himself bigger than the Rock

I explain Penny Dreadful by saying it was bad and fulfills my formula to a T. I explain Twin Peaks by pointing out its second season makes it the absolute poster child for “only sustainable for one season,” and if the best Showtime can do is another network’s thirty-year-old reheated leftovers, it’s in bad shape 

it turns out you only need one year to answer the eternal question of “what if there was a big c”

let’s replace Gordon Bombay with Gordon Ramsay with absolutely no explanation

What do you call the doctors Emilio Estevez has been consulting?

quack, quack, Quack, Quack, QUACK, QUACK, QUACK, QUACK

So glad to see an actress resisting the industry pressures to keep working, and instead rely on medical wisdom to care for her body. Now to take a gigantic sip of coffee as I google this rising star

This is the formula for a Showtime show:
-a known actor who makes you go “oh hey, look at them getting their own show”
-a premise that can only sustain its quality for a single season
-eight more seasons after that