I hear you.

I think another issue I’m having, and maybe this will be rectified once the show drops, but the color gamut/saturation seems a bit off and that’s where I’m getting the cheap-feeling from. It’s really off-putting, and somewhat reminds me of what they did with Speed Racer (the movie) in order to make it more c…

Man, when I saw Mad Pierrot, I literally let out a yelp.

It’s my favorite episode that doesn’t deal directly with the main storyline, and I (along with many others), wondered if and how they’d adapt it.

My God, my body is ready.

That being said, the intro does look a bit, dare I say, cheap? It’s really hard to pull off a…

I would say that, in terms of Shakespeare movies being Oscar bait, there’s a difference in a movie being Oscar bait, and a movie being good (regardless of whether it’s Oscar bait or not).

There’s been plenty of Oscar bait movies that have been absolute trash, but because of how they were made, the type of films, the…

The expectations of the efficacy of the vaccines was explained clearly to anyone with a basic understanding of statistics. The issue is that too many Americans are stupid and don’t understand statistics. Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J provided clear statistics regarding the efficacy in terms of chance of infection, as well…

The last time a sitting president had a primary challenger on the ballot was 1992, when Pat Buchanan challenged George H.W. Bush, and the last time a primary challenger won a primary state against a sitting President was in 1980, when Ted Kennedy ran against Jimmy Carter (Ted won 10 primaries, Carter won 24). His run…

AOC would never win a Senate race in New York.

She’s far too polarizing even in NYC, and she wouldn’t stand a chance in the exurbs and the north of the state.

Gillibrand is still young, and Hakeem Jeffries will probably try to follow Schumer if he doesn’t get the nod for the House Speakership after Pelosi retires.

It’s entirely straw man, for one simple reason that has been present in healthcare since time immemorial: non emergency-room doctors have a great deal of leeway to refuse care or services.

The reason it’s a straw man is the implication that a woman seeking an abortion is going to go to the nearest doctor of any kind…

It’s trying to apply economic logic that’s reserved for goods and services and applying it to labor.

The theory is that, like the price of a good or service with a strong substition effect (the ability for near substitutes to be acquired for a similar price), a price floor (or salary floor, in this instance) only…

It wouldn’t surprise me if one of the main conditions for being able to work the Emmys (and other award shows) is to be vaccinated. I know a lot of the workers in various capacities are unionized, so it’s likely that the producers of the Emmys went to the various unions and said, “Hey, we’ll hire union workers on the…

If the speeches only lasted 30 seconds, it’s because they were pressed for time for other reasons. Again, they have to fit all of the scheduled sections of the production in between the hard-set commercial breaks. If anything goes over, not just speeches, it forces everything else to either get shorter (such as…

Nor are they being paid to give a 30 minute speech on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

Going long on your speech is rather selfish to all of the other potential winners, as well as the other performers, the host(s), the advertisers, and the production crew who work crazy hard to keep the production flowing smoothly and…

The executives and the advertisers (along with the specific voting and union committees) are the ones paying for these award shoes. It’s literally in their interest to keep things as short and on schedule as possible, because financially, the nominees aren’t paying much of anything to be there.

It’s not about not…

That’s the ironic part.

Of all the people in the world who should know how expensive it is when production schedules run over time, it should be performers on multi-million dollar productions where they work 16-hour days just to finish a production in an allotted time, lest they want massive budget overages.

Say thank…

I don’t think that any significant amount of the home audience would give two shits about the risks of the events.

People opposed to Hollywood glitz and hypocrisy wouldn’t watch, and people who legitimately enjoy the awards shows wouldn’t care.

Also, college and NFL football have been back for weeks. I’m certain that…

These events have carefully timed commercial breaks, where companies have paid them a significant amount of money for their advertising time.

A person’s speech goes over the time, and that has a knock-on effect for everything down the line. So, if they’ve paid performers for a musical number, or a skit, and those get…

The 24-hour “news” cycle has made it so that what were/are primarily “news” outlets have to financially earn their keep in ways that, prior to the advent of CNN and the proliferation of cable TV and the internet, they simply never had to contend with.

There’s only so much “news” that happens in a given day, even less…

And there is apparently deep concern at the way the duke’s well-paid advisers on both sides of the Atlantic have been ‘outwitted and out-played’ at every turn in recent days by David Boies, the street-smart attorney employed by his accuser Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre.

This.

Dealerships don’t make a lot of money on any individual new car. They most certainly get bonuses for selling most (if not all) of their new allocation on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis, but on a per-car basis, neither the dealership nor the salespeople (those on commission) want to be hawking a bunch of…

That’s exactly what happened. In 2012, Cranston was nominated for Lead, Paul and Esposito were nominated for Supporting. Paul had been nominated the prior seasons, and this was Esposito’s only nomination during Breaking Bad. Paul won.

The irony is that they could’ve dual nominated Paul and Cranston, and it wouldn’t…

The fact that Giancarlo has only been nominated for 3 Emmys, hasn’t won one, while some of these milquetoast performances are lauded is absolutely beyond me.

Also, Aaron Paul robbed him of his Emmy win for Breaking Bad. There, I said it.