I think we’re both getting to the same point.

There’s plenty of characters where a certain group identifier isn’t particularly relevant to how the character is written. The script might call for a Jewish woman, but unless being Jewish is instrumental to how the character is written or portrayed (and you can replace…

I should have clarified. By behind the camera, I didn’t mean specifically directors and/or cinematographers, but anyone involved in the production of movies or TV, so crew members, makeup artists, stylists, management, writers, and the like.

As I responded to someone else, just looking at the end credits to a…

Serialization was due to the fact that printing an individual novel was very expensive, and thus limited the potential purchases to the rich and very wealthy. So, if you were someone who wanted to be a writer, and also wanted to earn a living, you couldn’t risk working years on a novel just to get the door slammed in…

That form of release had more to do with the fact that printing individual books was an expensive undertaking, made all the more expensive by the fact that most people couldn’t afford books. However, a newspaper publisher had the money and machinery to do printing, writers could certainly use the work, and readers…

I hate to use the same response I used to you on another comment, but the movie industry is more than just actors, so while you’re right that Hollywood has a lot of Jewish people in the industry, if they are disproportionately non-actors, you can’t simply throw people in front of the camera simply because they’re…

You brought up something I touched on awhile back (the centrality of a group identity to the character) on an article about gay actors and the roles being written and offered.

As much as we talk about representation (I’m black and gay myself), the reality is that historically, there aren’t that many notable people…

I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the issues is that, for many Americans, there’s not a clear understanding that being Jewish isn’t merely a religious belief or affiliation, but for many people, an ethnic one. So you have a lot of people making these decisions who think that being Jewish is a much more fungible…

Not to get needlessly political, but it’s a bit naive to think that all of the billions of aid sent to Israel ostensibly for Iron Dome went to Iron Dome. Not only that, but the aid also functions as backdoor funding for companies such as Raytheon who are part of the co-operation agreement(s) that are baked into the…

You’re right about the pacing.

One thing I hate in TV shows is when there’s a bad or utter lack of transparency into how much time has passed in between events, particularly when these events are significant.

Hell, the first episode had Yaya’s family moving to MV, meeting up with their friend, the Franklin-DuPont’s…

Unless I’m completely misreading and misinterpreting your statement (in which case, I apologize), aside from the fact that Jewish descent in most Jewish communities is conferred matrilineally, Martha Wayne is Kate’s aunt, so Martha being Jewish would have no bearing on Kate being Jewish by birth (unless she’s a part…

Raising Kanan started slow, I can admit that, but it really picked up in the later episodes although it was difficult to get an exact sense of when the story took place. I enjoyed Emprie for the first two seasons, but it was clear that none of the characters were actually going to grow and change, and it made all of…

I think what Dave, and a lot of other stand up comedians, are facing is a demographic and technological shift that’s resulting in pure stand-up comedy just not being as popular as it once was.

Looking back at the last 15-20, all of the highest earning stand-up comics at one point or another shifted between stand-up and…

I love them both, but this really should’ve been Big Daddy Kane vs. Rakim, and then KRS-One vs. Kool Moe Dee. 

The weird about comedy isn’t just the matter of intent, but also the matter of whether the joke or bit or scene lands.

Plenty of people intend to say something funny, but it doesn’t land, so the criticism is leveled at the fact that not only did they say something that, without comedic intent, it would be seen as mean…

People like Sage are the ones who don’t realize that the same people who were mean to you might also be the same people who have your back because they, unconsciously, feel a bit of comraderie. Plus, as children, showing any attention to another kid is, in many cases, an explicit sign of some care and concern.

It’s the…

The only argument I can envisage as a black man myself as to the insistence on identifying as not just biracial, but making clear that you’re outright opposed to identifying as one or the other, is a personal sense of avoiding what might appear as a dismissal of your other contributing ethnic lineage.

The issue with…

Power actually had some genuinely good seasons, and Raising Kanan was a much more enjoyable spinoff than Book II: Ghost (I hate Tariq with a passion, which I suppose is a combination of good writing and good acting to have a character be so loathsome in every way). I can’t speak on Greenleaf as I’ve never watched it,…

In this new technological era? Audi or Bentley.

The new Continental GT is smaller and sleeker, and would hearken back to the original books, but might be a bit ostentatious given certain design cues. Audi is just cool, but unfortunately, unlike BMW and Mercedes, they don’t have a flagship luxury coupe on par with a…

Doesn’t he still essentially do that? Hiring a writing staff but every episode is ultimately written by him? Maybe that’s why, since The Newsroom, he’s stuck to movies and plays.

Must be a weird position for the staff writers. A nice paying gig but you have to put up with both Aaron Sorking being Aaron Sorkin and…

Licensing is a big issue.

It’s such an issue that the ports of GTA V from 360/PS3 to PS4/Xbox One/PC were missing tracks, and there was only a 2-year gap between those releases (and for much less popular songs, no less). And apparently, more songs have been removed through various other updates due to the rights…