Honestly, Hader seems super well adjusted. If you ever hear him interviewed, he’s incredibly grounded, which maybe allows him to tap into the psychology of Barry. I think it’s less about personal trauma than it is great acting. 

The way Jim Moss looks at Gene. If looks could kill...

The spiral iconography is back, big time. Is this season going to finally connect back to series 1? I always regretted that the entire Carcosa/Yellow King thread wasn’t ever exhausted. Allusions to a larger network of worshipers was just tossed aside. 

Yeah, I think Kerry is almost like Ryan the temp on The Office. A person who is hyper competent on the climb up but who also somehow falls apart once they’re in proximity to the levers of power. And I’m not convinced she’s out of the running yet (the will has yet to be read). 

Love Cox (no notes!) but this isn’t a Steve Carell leaves The Office type shift. First, this departure was a creative choice, not a forced personnel change — there is an internal logic at work, not a mad dash to compensate for real-world issues. But more importantly, Logan was a fully realized person — essentially the…

For anyone who loved this episode and hasn’t seen it, I cannot recommend Death of Stalin enough. It’s a savagely funny film about this exact moment: what happens to balances of power when a tyrant dies suddenly?

Actually, he’s always been and forever shall be HATED: GG ALLIN & THE MURDER JUNKIES director Todd Phillips. He’ll never top it. 

That’s how I read it, too. But, as a manager, when you’re given an enlarged pool of $, any given writer’s salary (white, Black or otherwise) could be attributed to that chunk, right? So any given white writer, for example, could then be considered the “freebee” because of the diversity money that offset expenses. But…

Donald Glover has had an amazing career but it’s also true he’s had to deal with a lot of white nonsense — he was Chevy Chase’s favorite punching bag on Community and to have your writer’s room boss on a comedy show tell you you basically don’t deserve to be there but for your race is something that would irreparably…

I think that’s an interesting interpretation but if you look at his speech from the latest episode, he was very clear about the tone and envelope pushing he wants to see.

The gulf between Logan and his children and his employees is simple: he has a vision and they don’t. When Logan stands up on those paper boxes (LOL, it still makes him only as tall as Tom), he quickly articulates a vision and is able to get his team to genuinely share in that vision. Not a single hanger on or Roy…

At 20 years old this show is the perfect post-9/11 time capsule. If you weren’t alive then, don’t let anyone tell you all Americans were brainwashed by the call to invade Iraq. Plenty of people knew it was a joke, especially the AD creators. The relentless mocking of U.S. foreign policy using testicle jokes truly is…

MI is pretty great from film to film. But has anyone been killed with a book? 

Crank is so great and truly something all its own. 

Maybe we’ll get a Seinfeld-esque ending and Joe will end up locked in his own cage.

Literally no one said or implied you can only get insurance through an employer/union plan — but it is the way in which 50% of Americans get their health care. They simply stated they “needed the days” to maintain health care insurance continuity. Simple fact based on union rules. What on earth is so wrong about that?…

Has any other action series ever lived up to the consistent (if not escalating) quality level JW has set?

Guaranteeing a theatrical release, plus cable-like streamer rights to ad-supported platforms could certainly make streamer projects more attractive to top talent (and more lucrative for everyone).

DGA health care has specific requirements about work days logged (as indicated in the Tweet). It’s great health care that anyone would bust their ass to keep. Some of the wealthiest people in Hollywood use it for good reason. So, just because they weren’t destitute doesn’t mean they had no motivation to keep great…

The Hawley series is supposed to shoot later this year but with everything in streaming so fragile (and execs freaking out over budgets) I honestly think there’s only a 40% chance of it ever happening. They should just hand it over to Blumhouse and let them take a crack. Low financial stakes + greater creative…