Those sketches are SNL creating its own mythology. I’m not saying I enjoy them but it seems to work and if nothing else trotting the celebrities out will always get applause. Plus they seem to get tons of entertainment media coverage before and after whenever they do the 5-timer club episodes.

Yeah but that kind of casual cruelty to anyone with the faintest whiff of being an outsider was everywhere in kid and teen entertainment in the 80s so it’s hardly out of nowhere. 

I guess, although that probably describes my fate too and I didn’t really do anything wrong except waste a lot of time dawdling on the internet. 

Keanu’s a special case because he’s such a unique talent. He doesn’t have a lot of conventional acting range so it seemed like he was just a stoner/surfer airhead at first (and was comically miscast when trying to be serious and emotional) but The Matrix showed how great he was at being cool and detached— and not in a…

The post-Once Upon A Time period has been a relatively fallow one for Tarantino.

Still waiting for the gritty Small Wonder reboot. 

Tech journalists seemed a lot more fascinated with Elizabeth Holmes, WeWork etc than the general public (or possibly even their own readers.) Hollywood FOMO may have caused studios to snatch the stories up thinking there was massive interest.

I mean, sometimes the old timers are right. Complaining about what Coachella has become is pointless because that’s always going to be aimed squarely at what a 19 year old thinks is cool. It’s safe to disregard complaints about music festivals being different than their day from anyone over 35.

I watch the show because I like me some trashy pseudo-prestige TV but yes, I did forget that. In fact I barely ever remember anything about what I just watched at all when I finish an Ozark episode except that everything was really moody and blue.

Still, I think we all wonder what Jared Leto or Shia LaBoeuf would have brought to the role.

I see what the problem is. To properly get a hair metal station you needed a Mazda RX-7.

You can cover that Baba O whatever song all you want but don’t touch Teenage Wasteland.

Age is a big factor too. Cats chill out over time.

I think you have to accept that Euphoria is as much as fantasy world as Middle Earth. It makes that stuff go down a lot easier.

My favorite is when they rip stuff from the headlines but make the person who’s guilty in real life falsely accused. I’m sure that always goes over well with victim’s families. 

Considering how completely useless the character is it might be possible Finn is bringing the NYPD down from the inside.

And at the same time think how many extremely popular shows are about terrible men. I mean if it was a cable show in the 00s the “hero” was guaranteed to be a charismatic asshole who serially cheated on his wife.

America has a lot to answer for but at least we’re one of the very few countries that beats ourselves up over our racism. 

I don’t think GoT was a “silent majority” show like Yellowstone where the audience isn’t who’s vocal on the internet. The GoT fanbase had a massive internet presence.

Chapelle’s an asshole but wasn’t the housing deal more complicated than him saying NIMBY? Like the developer was bait-and-switching a tiny portion of the lots as low-income housing and the vast majority would be above market?