I think it’s the combination of two things: (1) Celebrity/class worship and (2) the English language. People are going to be fascinated by the extreme wealth of royals, but most royal families seem especially foreign. The British royal family is more accessible because they speak the same language as Americans. (Did…

Twelve is quite a number. If it were five, we’d say, “Wow! Big family!” But when it’s twelve, it has gone into the territory of, “Is he a cult member? Is this more of that quiverful bullshit?” He sounds like a dumb Duggar.

It’s fun to have strong reactions to characters! The problem is when it transfers to the real world.

I wouldn’t put a lot of weight into their morality clauses, or at least don’t assume that the clauses are always strong. The Nickelodeon guy who raped children is still a host of a show that you can watch on Disney+. Even while there’s a new documentary about him with interviews from at least one of the rape victims.

With so many movies each year, and only one winner per category, there’s always going to be some claim that a person or a movie was “snubbed.” That will always be a hard case to make.

She’s basically a grown-up child-star. Did she ever do homework?

The measurements definitely aren’t apples-to-apples. Netflix counts each click, but they don’t report the number of accounts that actually finish the movie. I clicked play on Rebel Moon, but it was so awful that I had to stop. I wanted to tear my face off! But I actually finished Barbie. I’m counted equally in these…

The anonymous sources are the ones jumping back and forth. The only way to correct it would be to change their quotations and add in bracketed comments... which isn’t really any better.

“She’s been in a surprising amount of mediocre Netflix stuff in the last several years.”

He keeps asking AI to make more books for him, and Amazon keeps selling them. Again and again and again and again. 

When they dyed her hair, do you think someone also asked her to stop using tanning and makeup to appear African? I wonder if that was a conversation that they actually had to have out loud. She’s swinging dramatically into the white arena after such long theatrics pretending not to be.

No, that binary extremism is just in your mind. There are plenty of “middle ground” people right here in the comments. The episode was rather bland, people were disappointed but not outraged. Nobody wants him to go to prison, but at the same time, we’re allowed to not like him. People are allowed to just not like an…

In a world with WAY too many franchises, there are still (apparently) people who are surprised to learn there will be another movie.

I talk to dogs and cats. That example seems like the least weird line among that very long video. But even if “average” people like me speak that way, it doesn’t belong in a movie. It all comes off as too plain and boring. Superheroes and supervillains should be more exciting than that! Show me something captivating.

That very long clip of awkward scripted lines has no mention of women or gender or femininity or any of what you say. It’s purely source material.

Thank you for sharing the distinctions. That’s exactly what I’m getting at. There are many kinds of sentences that can “punish” a person without necessarily sending them to a prison cell that requires housing, food, etc. There are people here on this website who don’t understand that very basic thing. 

Also, almost every leap year is an election year. (The exception is another little glitch that we introduce every 100 years.)

Maybe we don’t need to hear clips of this one particular song, but I do think more outlets should be covering the weird way that these reality/competition shows play a role in “laundering” dirty politicians. (Sean Spicer also comes to mind.) If the piece were more expansive, that would be beneficial, don’t you think?…

Where did I say that he should be stuffed into a cell that’s already beyond capacity? You set it up as a strawman (one that I never said) so that you could attempt to dismiss every other thing that I actually did say. Lame. There are many, many other options other than the dumb thing you assume I said.

“Halls, a film veteran, took a plea deal last year on a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon, and has already fulfilled his six months of unsupervised probation”