That’s because it cuts both ways. The true danger of nepotism isn’t really the occasional black sheep who gets to coast (well, maybe if they get nukes...) Rather, it’s the creation of a quanitifiably superior overclass that widget-producing businesses would be foolish not to tap instead of investing more resources…

A ceiling got put on Louis’ career after this broke. That ceiling is still there. The dude was utterly killing it just prior. Now, he’s not getting the calls he would’ve gotten for big TV and movie projects. He’s not going to, either. He gets to do his comedy and be on podcasts and whatnot. He gets to have a career.…

Lower Decks  was very loud to start. It’s probably still loud; I’ve probably adapted. I don’t fault anyone who tried it out for a few episodes and didn’t enjoy it.

>Exactly, if they can do the job who cares who their parents were.

It wouldn’t be all that hard for them to cheaply tie everything up. Sage dies, but Sage wins. She knew she was dead the moment Homelander remembered she existed and decided he had a use for her. As long as her plan isn’t completely idiotic and full of plot holes, the audience will be okay with it, provided she dies.…

It’s too late in the game for a training montage to be satisfying, but honestly, FFS, where was her Will Ferrel to tell her, “Absorb energy harder! Use it smarter?” I feel like it’s too late for anything, honestly. The obvious payoff, though, was Homelander falling for the rope-a-dope, nuking her to death with his eye…

An R-rated Borderlands would’ve been trivially easy to make, granted, but I’ll stick my neck out and say this: a Borderlands made by people who actually gave a shit about the IP would have been rated R as a natural consequence of thinking about how best to show the audience the truth of the world in which the stories…

“Dwayne Johnson is going to completely shake up the Scientology hierarchy.”

That’s a really bad argument, dude. You’re saying it’s impossible for some anti-Israel group to use “from the river to the sea” as basically a “no u” in response to this rather specific instantiation of it?

I’m almost disappointed that the show already did the whole “Girls get it done” thing, because an absolutely perfect ending for The Boys would have been an Andy- Kaufman-level commitment to advertising The Girls.

Supernatural always had good episodes, and its cast was ridiculously good for its budget/ratings level. Number one problem? 22-episode seasons. Shrink that to 13 and the show’s legacy jumps up a couple of notches instantly, no question in my mind.

Steve Buscemi is #1. Kevin James is #2.

You’re describing why it’s such an amazing performance, though. At a bare minimum, a director got Sandler to unwittingly do a postmodern deconstruction of his own career — and I contend that it simply would not have worked if the director had gone “guerrilla filmmaking” and tried to build that kind of a film concept ar…

I think he does, but not for his comedy. Dude’s actually got a point, though. Way too many critics dock his dramatic work points because of their opinions on his comedic work. That’s flat-out not fair.

Sandler had a moment. Is that all it should take, though? This is a comedy award, specifically, so the stuff I would most want to see him lauded for — Punch Drunk Love, Uncut Gems, and Hustle, to name my top three (and, yes, to throw some shade on his remaining dramatic roles, including Reign Over Me, so fight me) —…

You’re asking if one part of something wholly unnecessary was necessary. That reeks of bad faith.

Nothing can save you from bad jokers early in the higher stakes. Also, uh, I don’t know if you know this or not, but it’s pretty inherent to the most basic RNG of the game’s moment-to-moment play that sometimes you just flat-out get RNG-fucked to not get the hands you need to pass the early stages.

It makes a ton of sense that Jedi would be trained in nonlethal techniques, but it does raise the same old questions: why are you bothering with physical bullshit at all if you can just use magic to immobilize your opponent? I’ll give The Acolyte a little bit of credit, here, though: I think that Lee really acts the…

And yet, the overwhelming majority of core Star Wars lore involves the Jedi failing in some way. There have been many, many bad movies, shows, novels, and comics released over the decades, of course, but the cream that rose to the top represented a rich collection of failures, ranging from the instant and personal to…

Balatro is fresh and fun for about exactly as long as it takes you to realize that the dev leveraged the hell out of the simple preemptive retort of, “Well, yeah, of course it’s all about RNG. It’s video poker, dipshit.”