Nah.  I find that when I feel that way about a phrase it’s more about what I’m bringing to it than the other person.  I have to acknowledge that just because I’m receiving it with a certain tone doesn’t mean they communicated it with that tone. 

Only tangentially related, but does anyone else loathe the phrase “do better”? Even if I agree with the person, it’s an instant turn-off for me. It comes across as super smug and condescending to me. Might just be personal hang-up though.

The difference between Jezebel’s reporting on this and the Root’s reporting on this is pretty hilarious.

Taking the international tourism part of the first season of Killing Eve (agreed it was the best season), and marrying that kind of style to the adventure serial (Lara Croft started as basically a female version of Indiana Jones) could have the kind of creative spark that I would hope for in a new PWB project.

Actually, this would be a pretty good spin on the reboot. A married couple fighting Lesbian Bed Death is actually made of two frumpy at home, sexy in the field operatives who find themselves on opposite sides. Big set piece in the third act with “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” playing in the background, bam, that’s…

I like Dern for Ma Kent. SO in a fun, joking way how about Sam or Goldblum for Pa Kent?

Making an origin film for this character yet again would be lazy. I also would like to suggest doing something different for the Lois/Superman dynamic: not making Lois infatuated with Superman. Have an end credits scene where Clark is nervously about to reveal himself to her, and Lois just goes “yeah, I know”- she…

This season has been uneven in my opinion, but the show still gives me bigger laughs than anything else on TV right now. Shuli saying “your album was so bad I created the insurrection” just about killed me.

Ratched was hilariously greenlit as a two season show, but season one was years back and even Sarah Paulson has expressed being completely in the dark as to what the hell is going on with a second season. The funny thing is how nobody, including me, particularly cares about the ratched show. I only remember it…

Venom only works because Tom Hardy is cool, the relationship between him and Venom is funny, and #2 has Woody Harrelson chewing up the scenery like a maniac.

Stan did his best work with Jack, Steve, and John.

Jack did his best work with Stan. Steve did his best work with Stan. John did his best work with Stan (but also with anybody, because he was John Romita).

All of these dudes were essential ingredients in the magic of the finished product. 

This. It’s hubris for a show creator to think they’re going to get multiple seasons to tell their story.  Better to focus on telling a damn good first season that can stand on its own.  At least then if it gets cancelled, it works as a miniseries.  There was so much stage setting going on, that as I was watching…

Bad Trip was great in its own right but also the kind of dumb fun people wanted in a pandemic. It’s telling that everyone made money but its creative lead. This is why residual pay structures need to change.

He keeps makin’ em, I’ll keep watching. 

I like Bad Trip way more than I thought I would.

On the one hand, it was more or less exactly what I expected the finale to be, in terms of how everything resolved and the sheer amount of sentiment dripping from it. On the other hand, it did not really fix my biggest problems with the season as a whole, although I did not terribly expect it to by this point. On the…

And Emily Dickinson.

5 seasons confirmed by the creators.

I understand that people don’t like National Anthem because it makes them uncomfortable but that’s exactly the point. That’s why it is such an amazing episode. I’ve never watched something that made me think, “They’re not going to do this” to “Are they really going to do this?” to “Holy Shit! They’re doing this!” I…

I feel like “The National Anthem” should rate higher. As a statement of intent for what was then a brand new series, it’s jawdropping: the dramatic equivalent of walking into a bar and immediately punching the biggest guy there. And then it actually pulls it off.