Technically it’s TV, so wouldn’t qualify for the Oscars. Fingers crossed for the Emmys though.

First we lose Lance Reddick, and now this? I just want phenomenally talented actors I like to be (1) alive and well, and (2) not pieces of shit, for more than a couple years. Is that too much to ask?

I think their reservations are more because it doesn’t seem “glamorous” to them, or something along those lines. Or “work, not art.” (Which is nonsense, since it’s just as much art as any other part of the process, but I think that’s the way they conceptualize it anyway.)

It’s pronounced “Count De-monAY.”

Well, glad we can look forward to another round of people not understanding the distinction between proving innocence and prosecutors dropping charges because they don’t think they can prove guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

I disagree. Many people are funny. It’s just almost invariably not in the way they think they are.

Mildly hot take: Garden State was a solid-to-good movie that had the enormous disadvantage of kickstarting a mini-genre of shitty twee films that made their inspiration look worse in retrospect. (Easy to look like you’re just abusing annoying tropes when everything in your film becomes a trope immediately after it…

Well played, sir. Take your star.

Plus, I’ve yet to meet a 16-year-old who actually is appropriately self-aware, rich or not. Unless they’re doing something actually dangerous (like driving drunk), we should all let teenagers be teenagers. And besides, I’m pretty sure it’s a “let he who is without sin” thing with regards to all of us as teens.

Wait, you mean I’m not the only person who remembers Space Cases? Loved that show as a kid.

Thanks, I appreciate it. Coming up on three years now, and it’s still hard to accept. Not much choice but to keep going though, of course.

On the one hand, the past several years have somewhat changed the context of living with one’s parents. I’m in my mid-30s and spent much of 2020-21 staying at my mother’s, and I’m a fully-employed attorney. (Granted, that was in part because my father passed from COVID and I was helping her adjust, and in part because…

“In his mother’s house”

I’m not sure Oscar Isaac, who was also in a godawful cash-grab X-Men movie and three Star Wars movies that were... let’s go with “wildly divisive,” thinks of “Moon Knight” - which at least did one of the better portrayals of DID and also gave him the likes of Ethan Hawke and F. Murray Abraham to bounce of off (not to…

I’m actually surprised this didn’t happen sooner. I thought they’d follow the Columbo model of doing a special every couple of years - it’s not like the format couldn’t manage it, and I suspect it would have been popular enough to justify it. At this point the audience may have dissipated, but I’m still looking…

To be fair, they became one, and Mike Nesmith was a great songwriter. I think of them as far more legit than Lavigne, low bar as that may be.

It depends on the film - I’ve seen him in a lot of non-creep (or at least “straight-man”) roles too. Glad to hear he’s a decent guy in real life though! It’s not an exhaustive list - I’m told Chris Evans (a friend knew him growing up) is basically Captain America in reality too, and Anne Hathaway (from my hometown) is…

If that is the correct interpretation, then it’s hard to figure out how it could the “end of [a] run.” A run of... what? 

I thought that too at first, but then looked at the links and it listed CODA as one of the worst winners. Hence some of my confusion.

One of the funniest moments of my life was back in grad school watching Archer with some classmates. One of them started saying that Jessica Walter must be a “real bitch” (his words) in real life, because she was good at playing one in both that and Arrested Development. I responded that she was actually incredibly…