All right, I admit it, I based some of the details of my character “Juffy the Scranitor” from my hit series Juffy the Scranitor is a Baby-Eating Arsonist on you, including your age, relationships, place of residence, occupation, and distinguishing physical characteristics, but when the writing muse strikes...

Charles” died last year, which led to Nowicki finally reaching out to Roupenian to ask how she knew so many details about the relationship. The answer isn’t wholly surprising (there’s no huge twist or mystery)...

Some people are defending it by saying, “Well all writers use real life stories to inspire them” but come on, this is such a different situation. She used very real, noticeable details about a real person’s life whilst also changing their relationship dynamic into something grotesque and horrible. I think it’s pretty…

One of the major problems with Cat Person was that the guy was an obvious stereotype.

The Slate essay is a lot better written than the original.

“I don’t know; Roupenian changed many of the details and used the relationship to express a different dynamic than the real one.”

Pretty crummy thing to do to Nowicki, but a crummy thing to do to “Charles” as well, who comes across as moderately sketchy for dating someone 15 years his junior but was apparently nowhere near the abusive asshole portrayed in the story. Maybe if you’re submitting a piece of writing to a national publication you…

She was excellent in The Middleman, but otherwise I can’t remember her being a real standout anywhere.

Fuuuuuck yes to the voice actor thing. Like, do people even know or care enough who the fuck Natalie Morales is to merit choosing her over a trained vocal professional? I’m familiar with her. She’s not even an interesting actor, let alone voice actor. 

a straight couple where the woman is more “butch” and in charge are also good

Wha? Why? Betty and Howard were a cute couple together! It was actually interesting seeing the “tough, manly” one being the wife with the husband being the “meek, submissive” one. And it was made clear during the original show that Betty did indeed adore Howard.

Came here to say this. He’s an anti-vaxxer. I’d ask to see his vaccine card before reporting this without any checking. Where did he even get it from? Is he going to parties with complete strangers and tasting their breath? Hospital workers with breakthrough cases I get. They are surrounded by COVID. Pampered…

It should survive Bill Maher but I’m worried what will happen to it if Dennis Miller catches it.

unfortunately the fact that he was vaccinated and still got Covid is probably going to stoke his vaguely antivax views again.  On the other hand, maybe this will completely kill his bullshit “if Americans would just go vegetarian like I am, we wouldn’t be this affected by Covid” narrative.

Guess you didn't exercise or eat healthy enough, Bill. 

I read that as Real Time canceled and got excited.  I cannot remotely believe I used to like this show.  If smugness could become sentient, it would be Bill Maher.

Nice

My God! No! Is the Covid okay?

Have you sampled Apple TV+? It’s a bit cheaper than Paramount, but outside of their still pretty paltry amount of original content and some Peanuts cartoons, there’s literally nothing. No back catalog at all. If you want to watch anything else, you have to rent it.

Paramount Plus has got to have the least ROI of any of the streaming services. The content you get for the price you pay is so not worth it.