I think it’s a hard sell for people to buy into a weekly blue sky show when there’s other things to binge. I mostly associate Monk with people watching the DVD’s or repeats on in the background and not tuning in at 8:00 every week. The streamers can compete with that.

kids in 2048 having to obsess over pop culture from seventy years before was just ridiculously silly.

Again, I didn’t accuse anyone of “cancelling”. I’m not making some stealth pseudo-argument about “cancelling.” I used the intentionally ludicrous example of white guys never getting a book deal again to highlight what I see is a flaw of viewing everything through the lens of identify politics.

Sorry, extrapolating criticism to “outside of proposing that straight, white men not be allowed to have books published anymore I’m not really sure what you want the poor guy to do” is maybe not accusing the critic of canceling, but only by the slimmest margin. It’s saying, “if the critic thought through what they…

I’m not accusing anybody of trying to “cancel” him. I’m saying it’s a bit ridiculous to criticize him for being too far up his own ass of straight white guy nostalgia while at the same time criticizing him when he clearly attempts to move beyond straight white guy nostalgia.

The core problem—that the novel’s vision of geekdom focuses entirely on the favorite media of cishet white men—is more difficult to address.

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I forget why I watched Hunters. It’s mix of faux-grindhouse and wanna-be elegy for the Holocaust and ham fisted examination of post war Nazi-ism’s burrow into American society left much to be desired. And was there an idea for Dylan Baker’s character or did they just think they would have a plan for him that they…

“Not good enough to enjoy for being good, not bad or self-aware enough to enjoy as campy” applies to a lot of Amazon shows, Hunters in particular.

I’ve watched the 1st three available episodes, and she is really good. I could get the Rachel McAdams similarity, but the comparison I keep seeing is Christina Applegate.

Well, c’mon, nobody in the Big Bang cast was really challenging the limits of acting. OK, Laurie Metcalf; I meant the main cast.

Jim Parsons won the Emmy four times for Big Bang Theory, which is the theatrical equivalent of submitting a paper you wrote in high school to your English 101 class in college.

Have I missed something, or does Next not have a motivation beyond endless propagation —like, what is its mission?

Well, I think the issue is that William or Charles’s desires don’t matter. It’s not about who William wants to be, it’s who he is supposed to be. The role of the monarch is to be pleasantly neutral. People are sexist, so they aren’t going to admire a man who dresses up, cuts ribbons, and is pleasantly neutral, when…

Imma say it- I never thought Diana was THAT attractive. Like, she’s good looking and all, but shit people act like she’s Cindy Crawford. But it’s funny how her beauty likely influenced how the public reacted to her. What if she was plain looking, nothing wrong with that, but just look at how terrible they are to…

Totally. And I think it touches on something they sort of brushed up against in the first season but never really explained. Specifically that, for admittedly sexist reasons, the role of monarch now is more culturally suited to women than men. People are comfortable with the idea of a pretty woman whose job is to…

Right, but I’m seeing a lot of people question why she would think he likes performance, music, etc at all, and in some ways, it does make a lot of sense, and it’s disappointing that even Charles has seemed to forget the things he likes. I mean he can still think she’s bad at it, it was dumb, etc. But there seemed to…

Not JUST that she was second place to the frumpy married woman, but that she was generally expected to be a minor supporting role under the Queen, Charles and his siblings, Margaret, etc. There for good PR but never to steal their thunder or spotlight, which is a generally fucking impossible balancing act. (“Make us…

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