That’s the problem, though. It could range from “Don’t ever say anything bad about me, ever” (which, fuck that) up to “hey, don’t tell people what we’re willing to charge you so we can negotiate each artist separately.” (which, isn’t great but not the worst thing in the world)

It’s not the MOST promising thing (and I don’t fully trust him) but Taylor has legions of loyal fans and she is not shy about using them to put pressure on people. (Ginny and George... and during WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, PEOPLE.) In some cases, I might bring an NDA as well to avoid some unneeded trial by public. 

I’m more surprised we didn’t believe the “her” side* of this since Amber Heard’s ex-girlfriend accused her of abuse before dropping the claims when lawyers got involved.

I support this plan.

Let’s see... do we trust the guy who ended up with the master recordings as part of a deal with a label, or do we trust the lady who notably rallied her fans to attack a little seen TV show and then said nothing when some of those same fans hurled racist insults at the show’s minor star?

We’re really not going to be satisfied until an old video surfaces and someone dies by suicide as a result.

I really wish this show had taken an anthology approach instead of trying to position June as the Most Important Handmaid in the World. Part of the point of the book was that she wasn’t, and that Gilead was a chilling place that took away your humanity to the point that in the end we didn’t know if she was going to…

I thought one of the jokes was that Jessica does have a personality - she’s rarely standing around waiting for Morty. She’s usually active, has friends, has been on dates... The joke is that we see her through Morty’s eyes, so we, the viewer don’t see that. 

I see both sides of this, and I’m a little more on Mackie’s side right now.

My theory is that the “sacred timeline” is the one that makes Kang who he is. We won’t see Kang, but we’ll get bits and references to him to set him up as the next big bad.

DC did the multiverse stuff with Crisis on Infinite Earths, they embraced the movie/TV universes, and they didn’t spend time setting up a character to be a dick joke.

If not for the pandemic, this would be one of those films that comes in the middle of the summer that the Simpsons so rightfully parodied as “Free Air Conditioning - with movie!”

1. I liked the movie a lot. I liked the musical back before Hamilton, so I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for this particular musical.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Mobius M. Mobius a clone of one dude in the comics? So, the whole “he might be another Loki variant” makes a lot of sense here, they do what the MCU movies do a lot: They keep the idea, they just tweak it a little bit.

I mean... by changing the ethnicity of the character, removing her from the most iconic elements, doesn’t this just become a TV Show about an East Asian detective with tacked on recognizable elements designed to push nostalgia button for some while still generating enough outrage among others to the point that it…

But this kind of hyperbole only makes things worse. They “fixed” the headline, but they didn’t just say, “she took part in a formerly racist ball” at first. She put it all on her, despite the fact that there’s a ton of evidence that she wouldn’t have known at the age of 19 that this place had a problematic past.…

I’m not going to say anything new here. I’ve been avoiding the comments section in general thanks to some personal attacks, and I’ve just been dipping my toe back now that I’m in a better space mentally.

I’m very happy to see that the AV Club watched the Britney Spears documentary, thought long and hard about how society treated young women celebrities, then decided that none of it mattered the second they got some hot goss.

Maybe he is, but just likes a writer you don’t approve of?

The Harry Potter franchise would have both benefited and suffered from finding an adaptation 10 years later when it could have been picked up by Netflix or something as a series that covered everything. (or a streaming service that produces more than one season of a show.) But this is tailor made for a deeper dive…