Partridge’s is absolutely a failure. His most iconic mode is living in a shitty travel lodge while doing regional radio. When they brough him back, he was on an even more obscure digital regional radio station, and that’s the mode the film sets him in. Up until This Time, he was a guy who had one TV show decades ago, t…

I saw them three years ago and they were great. Jaggers voice is a little thin at times but they know how to cover that. Like a lot of those guys who’ve been around for decades, they seem to genuinely love performing. And if they don’t, they’ve gotten good enough at faking it that it works either way.

There is more original TV being produced now than at any point in history. Up until about a decade ago, American scripted TV shows were measured in the dozens. There are now well over 500 TV shows. Even if half of them are reboots, remakes, adaptations, etc, there are still hundreds of original shows. (Admittedly…

You're tearing him apart, Lisa!

The cut is probably not picture graded or sound mixed and likely has vfx missing. It probably wouldn’t cost much to finish it off, but I doubt it’s in a form most people would find watchable.

We live in a democracy. That wouldn’t stand. Choosing the PM is a job for 1922 Committee and Australian billionaires.

Yup. The production I’m on shut down all last week because one person got covid. We are back this week, but the company’s other show is down this whole week because one person got Covid over there. (I’m in the UK)

This looks like someone accidentally turned a lazy Family Guy cutaway gag into 6 hours of content.

Our current PM didn’t feel obliged to attend 5 meetings on covid at the start of a global pandemic and famously lied to the Queens face, I’d say he’d be happy not bothering to read the ramblings of a mad King. Especially one who is duty bound to stay apolitical.

Yup. Blockbusters aren’t great fun to shoot for an actor. Even ignoring that the characters usually aren’t that well written, the shoots are loooong, you spend a lot of time repeating boring mechanical movements and then you have to spend weeks or months on endless 8 minute press junket interviews. Obviously there are…

I’ve been on a lot of film and TV sets. I’ve met arseholes, pyshcos and weirdos, but I’m struggling to think of anyone not bothering to do their job at a professional speed.* Of course there’s a lot of standing around, that’s how TV is made. You can’t move lights that are being used in a scene or touch up makeup while…

Every fandom has its fair share of horrible people, even when the show/movie isn’t dealing with complex morality. It constantly amazes me how many racist, sexist, bigoted people are fans of Trek, Doctor Who and X-Men, despite all 3 banging the audience over the head with “bigotry is bad” messages.

It seems to me what you’re mean when you say character growth is the characters having a worldview you approve of. I was using badass as shorthand, but Morty’s personality and world view are totally different than the perpetually scared, confused child he was in season 1. Summer is not the vapid stereotype she was in…

That’s true of episode directors, but much less true of pilot directors. Pilot directors are expected to set the visual style of the show that everyone else follows. (Working with the other execs and writers.) But she’ll have approved sets, costumes, casting etc. For example, it’s not a coincidence that the actress…

Yeah, it seems like everyone’s ignoring all the other characters’ growth. Morty is now a total badass, capable of murdering countless beings and driving stories (while wrestling with that in a way Rick doesn’t). Beth and Gerry’s marriage has shifted and evolved. Summer now has her own space adventuring with Grampa…

The English once genocided half of the population of Ireland. HALF. And Ed Sheeran’s Galway Girl is still the worst thing the English have ever done to us.

That’s a fun theory, but seems like a great emotional beat to not reveal in a finale slightly lacking in personal stakes.

Not a great idea for a director on a promotional tour to slag off his employer’s cash cow.

I’d love to see a lighter Joker, someone more in line with the Hamill TAS one, or even Nicholson. The fun of the Joker is that he’s the opposite of Batman. Good but sad and dark VS evil but happy and silly. As great as Ledger and Phoenix were, I'm very happy to take a break from sad Joker.

That’s a good point. And as a Northern Irish person, there are plenty of people who wouldn’t even consider me properly Irish anyway.