One of my favorite movies and one of the first ones I bought for myself. It came out when I was in high school and I saw it in my first year of college. I was floored by the tender way it treated same sex romance, loved that it didn’t fill its queer characters with stereotypes (even if they were themselves caricatures…

“The anvil of leftist ideologies” is famously hammered using the hammer from the USSR flag

Guess you never heard of Camden, huh

eh, I’m not worried about that. Female voice actors have consistently had long careers playing boys because their voices never deepen. The main mis-step I see here is having blonde haired blue eyed Kristen Bell play a biracial (half Black, half white) girl. If you want a white actor to play a role so bad, just make…

Adult Swim’s aggressively anti-humour, stoner dude vibe isn’t exactly what I think of compared to Tuca & Bertie

I really wonder if they’ll get backlash from their usual dudebro audience as a result. I could see a lot of them angrily pointing at the TV during an episode, huffing “Hey! I resemble that remark!”

Melanie Lynskey is a treasure. She’s one of those actors who pops up in something and you’re like, “she’s HERE, TOO?” I’ve never disliked a performance of hers, and I’ve seen her in a lot of stuff. Roles that stand out for me include her minor turn in “Shattered Glass,” the evil-stepsister-turned-friend in “Ever…

They didn’t earn that ending. People are crowing over it because it’s gay and canon and showed actual gay kissing, but it wasn’t earned. It was rushed. And I’m not going to give slack to a show that broke enough bounds to include they/them pronouns in a children’s show’s lexicon for taking the lazy way out in putting…

She didn’t have to. She just didn’t have to at all. Madam. Take the riches ciphoned from the hands of teens to young and stupid to know what a healthy romantic partner looks like and move along.

Apparently the people who made “Tiger King” wanted it to be the “Blackfish” of big cat owning? I saw both documentaries. “Tiger King” is glorified Reality TV. On screen we see a man so callous that he can shut a pen full of crying newborn tiger cubs into a room in his house. But people are enamored of how crazy his…

I think CXG needed the room for all their dense musical numbers to breathe, and JtV was more like a dramedy (which works well in an hour long format) but point definitely taken. I do fall on favoring the 30m length though - especially if it’s closer to actually 30m rather than the 22m that seems to be allotted these…

I’m Jewish, myself, so watching these episodes about Christians “opening up” their beliefs to such things as Buddhist philosophy feels like an outsider-looking-in activity. Why do Christians have to look to the East to get a sense of the mystical? Isn’t Christian mysticism a thing? Weren’t there any Christian…

C’mon, Don. Just come out and say you don’t like rap music. It’ll save us all a lot of time.

Our access to power as Jews in this nation only goes as far as the Christian majority will let it. Those of us who have European ancestry are only considered “white” with the blessings of white Christians living here.

His lone comment on my reaction to the show is a sarcastic missive along the lines of “If only Jews had some sort of access to mainstream media.” Thankfully it’s still in the greys, and I’m not going to respond to it lest it get promoted.

Although I probably won’t be able to watch it - this subject matter is just too close to home for me, a Jewish American woman with plenty of inherited family trauma - I’m really interested to see how Jewish characters are presented on screen. Too much of the time we’re Larry David-type caricatures or sneering bankers…

Apparently they were literally booing the poodle?

Except for Hans Moleman, who was saying “Boo-oodle”

No one is actually complaining about gender swapped voice actors. That is such a nontroversy.

This is spot on, all of it. It’s not even an exaggeration.

The world is dark, cold, and veering towards fascism. It’s no surprise to me these movies are flourishing.