Meanwhile, The Algorithm™ sets full steam ahead for the Rosemary’s Baby prequel on the same network. 

does the marketing machine not understand that bob odenkirk is a huge star? obviously cross has always been a little niche, but i’m a little surprised odenkirk’s name doesn’t get it past the goalie.

They all thought they could be Tesla on day 1.

Honestly, the dude needs life in prison w/o parole or death penalty.

I like how these folks want all the perks of a governed society but none of the responsibilities. Isn’t there a patch of desert or tundra or a vacant Island we could move them to so they could be free. 

Right? When he said “I thought everybody wanted this,” my first thought was who the hell told you this?  That’s why you have to listen to people other than your management staff.

i see the (flawed) logic.

no kidding, nobody “wanted this”, as Stiller assumed (still assumes?). by the time - fifteen years later! - it came out, Zoolander 1 was already reduced to meme status. what did he think would happen.

Also, for the sake of your fellow motorists, if you have one of these dials and you typically drive in well-lit urbanized areas, flip that about as low as it’ll go.

The problem with Wiig’s sketches is that while she’s funny and versatile, they almost always boiled down to “hey, do this one silly thing over and over and over for five excruciating minutes.”

Beck Bennett was the glue guy, in the same mold that had previously been filled by Jason Sudeikis and now seems to be coalescing around either James Austin Johnson or maybe Andrew Dismukes.  Sometimes the loony one in the skit, but most often the straight man reacting to what the christ is going on around him.

Their annual Christmas joke swap is all-time for WE. It’s fun to watch comedians get to cut loose more than the confines of the show will usually allow. I’d love to see a full-R, don’t-give-a-fuck episode of SNL.

Kristen Wiig was fine but I think Poehler, Rudolph, and especially Shannon were funnier and more versatile 

People complain about them a lot but I’ve rarely been disappointed in an Update segment of theirs.

I too would put Beck Bennett. Probably over Jimmy Fallon or yeah maybe over Moynihan. For a conventionally handsome guy, Beck really committed to the ridiculousness when he could have gotten by on his looks.

To each their own, but I would have Molly Shannon, Amy Poehler, and Maya Rudolph all ahead of Kristen Wiig 

Another good reason for Tina Fey to run SNL:  she loves NYC, never once left for LA.

Will Forte should be higher and I’d fit Beck Bennett in there somewhere - I feel like in the last decade or so of SNL, he was the most underrated cast member. Get Moynihan outta there, maybe. Otherwise, pretty agreeable/predictable list.

I don’t get why creatives announce retirement, you never know if you will change your mind. Just stop making films until an idea comes to you? And if another idea doesn’t come to you that’s fine too.

This makes total sense. Tarantino is the kind of guy who is narcissistic/confident enough to write some masturbatory bullshit but also self aware enough to realize that it is bullshit and scrap it for something a little less masturbatory. And I say that as a fan.