I’m sure Sam feels better having gotten his pound of flesh lol

I’d rather watch Edward the Penitent.

Someone said “it’s fair to say that given the US and its penchant for obfuscation of the truth, that she could have participated and have no idea of the history of the organization she represented at the time” and that sums it up for me. She was 19 in a white privilege bubble (and when you’re that rich that bubble’s…

I saw this on The Root, where people don’t seem to be making much of it. Unless she’s still espousing racist ideas or keeping a close connection to this dumb pageant then I’d raise an eyebrow, but this isn’t the same as being the KKK princess. She came from rich white folk and rich white folk are what keep the…

Rhea Perlman didn’t deserve that cast.

I’m old enough to remember when having a kid who happened to have two moms showing up in a kids show documenting actual families was grounds for national uproar. And their family wasn’t even the focus of the show, it just happened to show up. Cuz... that’s just reality. Some kids have two moms.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair (ostensibly centered around star Phoenix), the filmmaker opined about why he chose to move from broad comedies to something as dark as “Joker.” Turns out, he just couldn’t hang with the current culture. “Go try to be funny nowadays with this woke culture,” Phillips told VF.…

That’s not an apology. He didn’t own up to anything specific. “My joke didn’t land” is not an apology. “Mocking someone for being Chinese is mean and not funny and I’ll try to do better” or something like that, is.

I don’t think it’s possible to consistently uphold the standard of, if you made a joke about the ethnicity of your future co-worker, you can’t work here any more.

I saw her play the bartender in that one episode of “Community” (early season) and I was immediately like, “who is THIS queer darling?” I immediately looked her up and was struck by her unusual name, but I couldn’t really find much about her at the time. But within the next year or so she pretty much staked a claim in…

Since Bowen Yang (Chinese and openly gay) was also joining the cast, and had been a staff writer at SNL already, I’d say it was more a case of the bosses not doing their due diligence and someone actually stepping in to do that.

What “Guy fired from SNL” do you mean? The one who said this?

This Superman cartoon definitely has a SATPOP look to it so I’m utterly unsurprised Josie Campbell is involved.

Now now, don’t you think that such a narrow view is a little biopic?

I get that the conflict during the Civil War was slavery, but the system that allowed slavery (systemic racism) still exists in every single state in the form of prison labor, et al... not exactly as big a divide as you think.

The thing is, Eurovision is meant to sublimate centuries of intra-European international strife so that instead of resulting in wars or violent annexations it results in people cursing at the TV or screaming their heads off in an audience. Does the US have that kind of internal conflict, ready to be harnessed?

Ellis can be blunt and her answers can be sharp, but misgendering is not something I see in her MO. That’s the kind of spiteful bullying tactic that isn’t her style. If she used the wrong pronouns I suspect it’s a mistake or ignorance.

You already made your personal dissatisfaction with Lindsay Ellis’s thorough apology video quite clear in a previous unrelated thread. What’s your goal here, to convince everyone else to also come down on the side of your opinion of it?

This slight dramatization is distracting, as are the abrupt needledrops of songs like Billy Joel’s “My Life,” which come off as jarring in an otherwise serious documentary.

Lesbians weren’t as taken with yet another psychotic WLW character as you might think. Maybe they were popular with gay MEN. that’s different than being popular with the Queer community. I’ve seen how those movies represent bisexual women - as misanthropic bitches who use their sexuality as a weapon to manipulate…