All I can think is that the smell of those meatballs would keep me up all night.

 I think the idea that a cisgendered person being cast as a transgendered person steals a job from a transgendered person is a fallacy, though.

I’m happy for Aziz Ansari, but it also makes me realize that the last person you would want to cheat on in our tech and social media driven era is a forensic data scientist.

Chris lied to his bosses, and he lied to his viewers, on air.

Collins’ statement, like much of the rest of her career, is cravenness shrouded in performative concern.

At this point in cinematic history many cisgendered women have played characters going through pregnancy, and I’m fairly certain those ranks have included women whom, for various reasons, are unable to conceive or even go through biological processes like menstruation. From an audience perspective imo, the real life…

Tyrone Power gets underestimated imo because of matinee idol good looks, but he’s great at playing sociopathic types in this movie and films like Johnny Apollo and Witness for the Prosecution. He was also great in swashbucklers like Black Swan and The Mark of Zorro. 

Added together with resolving the mystery of Kate Bishop’s Dad and what her Mom and Jack are up to, as well as introduce Yelena, it all seems like a hell of a lot for three episodes.

Renner definitely got to shine in Age of Ultron, but I still don’t feel the MCU films have been as good a showcase for him as they have been for Natasha. It’s just great to have this intensive exposure to multiple aspects of Clint — his humor, humanity and badass skills.

Clint thinks he deserves to die for what he’s done, which is plenty of reflection.

I’ve lost track of the comment thread so I’m not certain to what is referring directly to what I said, what I edited for clarity or what someone else said. I don’t think Maya being in the tracksuit gang is surprising, I think her motives are sympathetic and I’m not sure how the show can resolve this if Clint did…

It really depends what the MCU wants to do with the characters. Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne aren’t old in the comics, Agatha Harkness has gray hair and is kind of heroic, Jimmy Woo is a super confident bad ass. Given that most of these indigenous characters are unfortunately minor and/or obscure, there is a reasonable…

Red Wolf or American Eagle are possibilities right now imo. Shaman, Forge, Wyatt Wingfoot are possible too, but they are intertwined with franchises (X-men and FF) that haven’t been introduced to the MCU proper just yet.

(the weird note with the flashback is that none of the people killed appear to be Eastern European or are necessarily wearing tracksuits, though all are wearing at least tracksuit-compatible tops? so again, not conclusively the same but incredibly coincidental if not)

* I know that he is likely to show up in flashbacks in Echo’s own show, but I was very annoyed to see Zach McClarnan — brilliant in Fargo, West World and Reservation Dogs — dead two minutes after he was introduced. His scenes did pack the required emotional punch, but I would have loved for him to have a bigger, more…

I mean,  it was never expressly stated, but I think it was meant to be assumed that Dr. Abraham Erskine was Jewish.

I mean,  it was never expressly stated, but I think it was meant to be assumed that Dr. Abraham Erskine was Jewish.

Damn it, I’ve been Out-Nielsened!

“I feel like they should just keep their mouth shut and stop criticizing the greatest nation in the world …”

It sounds like McConaughey has figured out the best way to control the country is not politics. It is make billions and feed people on an ideology that is compatible with capitalism. I mean, the Koch bros. knew this decades ago.