the fact that they don’t have to rush these out anymore has completely ruined them. the show was great when they were forced (largely by themselves) to fly by the seat of their pants.

Honestly it happens to Yi so much that I wonder if they are in the wrong line of work.  

I would take these allegations more seriously if they were made to the police and not on Instagram. 

But is she abused on every project, or is she someone with untreated trauma who keeps transferring that trauma onto every project she works on?
She often tries to leave projects that are underway. Not every set is a happy set, but not every set is a miserable hell-hole, either. She’s also typically working on projects…

I was just going to say, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any story involving this woman which hasn’t been about her claiming something horrible happened to her behind the scenes.

Ben Platt was an okay decision, but the make-up/special effects, and most importantly, the wig, just made him look like play-doh.

^Exactly this. There is good reason that filmed live productions of Into the Woods (first one that comes to mind) et al. continue to be discussed and praised far more than their clumsy movie adaptations. Studios, know who your audience is and cater to them, and let the experts and professionals who made the stage…

I’d like to see more musicals get the Hamilton treatment: just film the stage show. No need to moviefy it.  Give some thought to the camerawork to keep it from being static, but just let the stage players do their thing.

It blows my mind that they were referring to her skin color. I don’t know this factually but there’s definitely been at least one stage production of Wicked where Elphaba was a Black actress. There is no doubt in my mind that there’s been at least 2 north American actresses that have played this role. Again I don’t…

Oh because she's Black? Oh come on is this 1940 Jesus christ. My mind didn't even go there because that's straight up silly. Elphaba's skin color has zero to do with plot here. 

Please don’t encourage trolls.

I think Jerry Seinfeld got the message to stop bombing Gaza, as zero deaths there have been attributed to him there in the last 72 hours.

You want to know how you can tell that these college demonstrations are purely performative?

Someone doesn’t understand corporate agency or entities.

Yes, Apple still exists as an entity. Its past deeds still belong to it. 

So I totally get it if you don’t like his shtick or whatever. Not everybody likes the same thing and that is fine. But the idea that he is not likeable in general is silly. His whole hugely successful career is based on his likability, and his IS still hugely popular and followed. Sure, his recent relationship issues…

I generally don’t see the point of criticizing criticism, but “thing wasn’t what I personally expected it to be” isn’t a critique so much as a kneejerk reaction. It’s something a good critic accepts and interrogates before subsequently writing something more thoughtful. “Why were my expectations so misaligned?” “Did…

What a bizarre critique. The special was funny;  like, really fucking funny. He revealed as much as he needed to in order to make the jokes work. Not every special needs to be doing some sort of Hannah Gadsby style confession.

The Elephant Man thing was a really, really long walk to get basically nowhere. Dropping in an anachronism is not inherently funny, and the fact it wasn’t even explained made it worse.

JK Rowling isn’t behind on this issue, she’s ahead. The NHS has stated biological sex is real, experimental treatments being carried out on children are being rolled back throughout Europe due to the fact there’s no evidence supporting it, and sporting bodies continue to pull away from allowing males into female…

does the marketing machine not understand that bob odenkirk is a huge star? obviously cross has always been a little niche, but i’m a little surprised odenkirk’s name doesn’t get it past the goalie.