I don’t know, I think people are overestimating how tightly intertwined the previous phases were, and are asking for too much from this grouping. Like, I do not think that fans who complain that there isn’t more happening with the multiverse would actually be happy if like Shang Chi and Moon Knight had multiverse…

There are many more opportunities now than there were 20 years ago for an SNL alum to have a standup special get picked up somewhere, have a sitcom air on a streaming service, or just generally get around in their friends’ projects. At the same time, there are many fewer opportunities now than there were 20 years ago…

Sometimes I sit down to watch TV on a Friday night and I’m not quite sure what I’m in the mood for. Or I know that I’m in the mood for let’s say an action movie but don’t have one clearly in mind. And so I might think “hey I know Netflix has a bunch of kickass kung fu movies, let’s go there.” And sometimes I find a…

Well yeah if you have Criterion and don’t care about a bunch of the stuff that HBO Max has then obviously you would not be upset about it becoming unusable. But as someone who does not have Criterion but appreciates both the TCM hub on HBO and many of the other things HBO Max has (I am a parent of small children) I am…

Between the HBO library, Cartoon Network shows including a bunch of Adult Swim cult classics, Studio Ghibli, Sesame Street, and the best collection of classic movies this side of Criterion, HBO Max might have the best library of any of the streamers. It is so frustrating and disappointing that rather than double down…

I’m still enjoying the show but I do wish they’d let the characters age a bit. Puberty lasts throughout your teenage years and has a lot of awkwardness and confusion and big emotional swings beyond just the initial shock and confusion of it all, and it would be nice to see these characters dealing with this stuff as…

I am not personally defending any of it. Those are all musicians (Kanye included) whose music I have enjoyed in the past but who I rarely if ever listen to anymore because of the horrible things they’ve said and done. But I think there’s a big difference between me, as an individual music fan, deciding that I’m not…

I really enjoyed Rings of Power despite it’s uneven pacing, but one thing that really sticks out to me now that I’m doing a re-read of The Silmarillion is that I think it kind of hurts the show that they can only use the appendices from The Lord of the Rings to tell this story. Like, Galadriel is one of the oldest…

I think that’s a perfectly defensible position - we do not want corporations deciding which public statements by a musician do and do not merit restricting access to their music. Should Hank Williams Jr. be pulled from Spotify because he’s said crazy racist things about Barack Obama? Should Megadeth’s music be pulled…

“How dare you make new art based on comic books that I created?” asks the man most famous for his alt-universe take on the Charlton characters, several issues of Superman, and run on Swamp-Thing. 

Eh. Mulaney is not under the level of tabloid scrutiny as Wilde but since all of that happened with him I have not seen his name come up on twitter or an article with an open comment section published about him that was not swarmed with people acting as if they were wronged parties in his divorce. Celebrity culture is…

It’s not that I don’t have any sympathy for her - I’m sure the last few months have been brutal for her mentally and emotionally - but at the same time I don’t recall her facing particularly harsh tabloid scrutiny or twitter jokes until she left her family to have an affair with one of the most famous pop stars in the…

Putting an actor who weighs 180 pounds in a fat suit to play a character who weighs 280 pounds is offensive because there are talented actors who actually weigh 280 pounds who are perfectly capable of playing the role. But there are not any working actors who weigh 600 pounds, or even particularly close to it, because…

One correction, Derry Girls is very firmly set in the mid-90s, not the late 90s. Bill Clinton’s visit to Derry, which is fictionalized in the finale of Season 2, was in 1995.

There’s also a way that internet fan culture likes to build someone up to ridiculous degrees, obsessing over how cool but also normal and relatable but also omg totally epic they are, and then viciously tear them down for sins real or imagined or exaggerated out of all proportion. I think it’s not a coincidence that…

I love the telling on yourself “oh so you’re calling me a racist just because I don’t like the show” and “well I haven’t seen very much racism directed toward this show” comments. It’s the same shit as the racist backlash to Obi-Wan Kenobi - you’re well within your rights to not like it because you have issues with…

This is why I’ve kind of already given up on the show. I suppose it could still turn itself around but right now I’m only sort of watching and I probably won’t be back for season 2. It’s a show about dull, cruel, selfish people that is almost entirely lacking the charismatic performances, cleverness, and sly sense of h…

I don’t know what he was like in the 90s, but I do think a lot of actors who have a big role and then spend years struggling to get work again afterwards are particularly susceptible to this kind of shit. Because when you mentally have to accept one of the following: (a) you’re not a very good actor, you lucked into…

This is exactly it. The first episode or two seem to be setting her up to have her father’s kindness and even temperament but her uncle’s ruthlessness, thereby establishing her as a worthy heir who would make a better ruler than anyone else in her family. Since then though she’s been selfish, short-sighted, incurious…

The show has not done nearly enough to show why Alicent is so bitter and mean-spirited or why Rhaenyra is so reckless and seemingly ignorant of how to play palace politics. I think my problem with the show to date is that the frequent time jumps ask us to just trust that character development happened offscreen and tha…