This sounds like it's heavily indebted to the fantastic, underappreciated British anthology series Inside No. 9, in which every episode takes place entirely in a room/house/cubicle/booth/etc no. 9. If nothing else, I hope this show prompts people to check out that one.

He does draw the biggest, most superlatively d-listy of d-listers, so I'm sure he views that as an accomplishment, of sorts.

So many Shakespeare adaptations rely on all-star casts as their draw, and I wonder if part of it is that it has fewer juicy roles than some of the more frequently adapted plays. Brutus and Mark Antony are great parts, and good actors can do a lot with the comparatively small roles of Octavius and Cassius, but it…

The ever-responsible Fox News' response to the shooting has been to tell its viewers that "The Left" is full of violent, hate-filled maniacs who would cheerfully kill anyone who doesn't buy into their ideology. Because in opposite world, riling up your base with scaremongering and demonizing the opposition is a…

I'm sure this has been obvious to others for months now, but it's only dawned on me the last few weeks: Trump's only interest in the presidency is adoration - of the masses, of a few, it doesn't matter. All of his public statements are directed at an ever-dwindling clutch of far-right faithful. It doesn't matter if…

The unacceptability of using that word is self-evident to most rational people, so I don't see the necessity of stating the obvious. My comment isn't refusing to acknowledge anything; I think I made it clear that it was a profoundly stupid thing for Maher to say, but since others seem to think it warrants his being…

This was an idiotic joke, but as a black person, I'm not particularly offended by it. It's when comedians double down on their feeble jokes and claim that they're just too edgy/real/un-PC for liberal snowflakes that I take real umbrage. I'm not a fan of Maher's by any stretch, but I don't think he's a racist. On the…

It would've been a treat to have seen Don't Look Now and The Wicker Man as a double bill as they were originally screened in '73. They're two of my favorite horror films, and to think that audiences got to see two masterworks back-to-back in the theater, presumably knowing very little about either, is enviable.

I don't know anything about Alexa's methodologies, but the VF article does address the odd shape of the graph:

They're in Israel. The Netanyahus are walking right beside them, holding hands as couples do. I fail to see what's so nauseating or presumptuous about that.

"I look forward to this matter concluding quickly so I can focus on gutting healthcare, stripping regulations, giving massive tax cuts to the rich, and building a big, beautiful time machine to transport my beloved coal miners back to 1918 so their jobs can be viable again."

This is a bizarre deflection. I don't think anyone expects penetrating questions from Fallon, but if your show is the late night equivalent of Kids Say the Darndest Things, maybe don't have Regan MacNeil or Damien as a guest? The resulting uncomfortable dissonance is - unsurprising.

This isn't the sort of thing I'd usually be drawn to, but I've really liked most of Wheatley's films, and he always works with genre tropes in a really stripped-down, smart, witty way. High Rise was a miss for me - I think he and his writing partner, Amy Jump, fare better with original material, or maybe that novel…

I understand where he's coming from. Lately I've been having trouble telling dangerous, impulsive authoritarian leaders with stupid hairstyles apart, too.

I agree with you that race is a construct, but by that logic, I don't see how you're defending Dolezal's assertion that she was somehow born the wrong race, and is "actually black". That just reifies racial categories. This is fundamentally different from transgenderism, because sex is a biological fact, but gender…

Supporting something because your homogenized vision of "the working class" supports it even though it's demonstrably bad for the working class is a pretty shallow and condescending show of solidarity. If Lydon's intent is to prove just how out of touch he is with the working class he hasn't been a part of for at…

Trump, pleased with himself, honks loudly, mugs for the camera, and pretends to do something he isn't qualified to do. Supporters laugh and cheer.

I haven’t seen The Exorcism of Emily Rose (it looked preposterous), but as a counterpoint, I thought the German film Requiem, based on the same story, is sensitively and tastefully done. I don’t necessarily think there’s anything wrong with fictionalized horror/thriller adaptations of tragic events - films have…

So the host asks him about attending the inauguration, which is a pretty benign topic for late night talk show banter (and aren't all of these questions vetted ahead of time, anyway?), and he immediately dives down the "You get beat up if you don't tow the party line!" and "It's like 1930s Germany!" path. It's a…

No one in their right mind thinks Trump is attractive. So I imagine Trump probably thinks he's attractive. Since he's not a woman, I also imagine he sees his indisputable attractiveness as an extra asset rather than a value-defining trait.