I get why they want to keep Sam Waterston around but let’s face it, he’s at the Patrick Stewart level of mileage now where it’s kind of uncomfortable watching him.

making him the longest-running male actor on any series in TV history.

Yeah this screams of ageism to me.

Inspiring when a child so effortlessly assumes handling of the grift machine following their parent’s deaths.

Who was that, Confucius?

99% of articles about him leave out how his manager threatened these women into keeping silent after the fact. To me this is crucial to understanding what he did and why he was cancelled (sort of). He never exposed himself to, say, female execs at HBO. It was strictly comedians, female actresses and other women with…

You know, there is an interesting documentary that could be made from this that explores the effectiveness of MeToo, the myth of cancel culture, and how the makeup of CK’s audience shifted more to the right when he returned. But this sounds like they’re going for an inspirational comeback story that’s borderline…

You know Hollywood, always trying to reboot shit.

Remember in that episode of Louie when he tried to rape that woman he had been crushing on, and he chased her around his apartment trying to force himself on her until she just gave up and said fuck it?

You expect context and nuance? On the internet? At the AV CLUB??

Me going through these comments:

Bill Hader?

“I find myself just really wishing him health and evolution”

So maybe we don’t have to say goodbye to THOSE! Woo Hoo!

I got a Reboot notification for this?

Tyson biting off part of Holyfield’s ear is honestly one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever witnessed. How was he ever allowed to box again after that?

The lesson here is Jared Leto ruined method acting for everyone. Andrew Garfield is 100% right about how internal it is, and the last thing it should be doing is getting movies bad press. I love method acting, and I’ve got the same guidelines you do, which is why it’s important to have that third:

Zaslav knows how to turn educational on-in-the-background TV into hyper-profitable trashy on-in-the-background TV, but it seems increasingly clear he doesn’t know how to handle projects and IPs that people actively care about and engage with.

They may have cancelled Batgirl, but at least they’re fully committal on any Batman project. Let me just take a big sip of coffee and read this article about the new Batman animated series! 

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the modern kings of method acting but every story about him is that he is not hard to work with and very nice to the crew. He just gets really into character. That is fine.