Anyone writing a letter to gain a lighter sentence for a rapist who could one day be released to victimize the public again should absolutely be expected to answer for their decision — by the very public who could be targeted in the future. Writing a mitigating letter is an entirely elective act. You buy the ticket…

The thing I keep thinking about is how many shows they’re going to decide to scrap or retroactively cancel. At some point they may wonder if audiences still remember certain shows or even care all that much if they return. I don’t think that’s the case with everything but I can see streamers focusing on new content,…

Everything I learn about him makes me love him more. Most of all I love that a “master of horror” is so enamored by silly pop music. Would give anything to watch an “At Home with the Kings” show on Bravo.

Birds of Prey is one of the few enjoyable DC films. It has so much visual joy and panache. It helps that HQ is a relatively new character, born out of a complete accident of fate. There’s so little baggage involved, allowing the character to just exist on its own terms. No question that film was a financial…

The streamers don’t want anyone to notice that the legacy shows are the core of almost all of their platforms. Legacy shows with 100-plus episodes drive most of the month to month “stickiness” in subscriber numbers. Quick binges don’t -- those subscribers are essentially short-lived spikes in viewer numbers. The truth…

Honestly, even if the script kinda sucks, just go with it!

Comedy is a lot harder than drama — so why are people always so shocked when a comedy writer pivots to drama? The reverse would be the true head-turner. Just picture Todd Haynes is doing a roadtrip comedy.

I laugh every time there’s an extended pause following one of John’s subjects saying something absolutely jaw-dropping after which John eventually goes “wow.” Gets me every damn time!

I loved Sue, Mel and Mary, but I have to say this show has generally done well with the host changes. Lucas and Fielding aren’t inherently gentle personalities, but they, like everyone else, seem to have bent to the vibe of the show, rather than the other way around (Paul is basically contractually obligated to be…

I guess the thing that sticks with me is the fact that every streamer knows that their most watched shows are almost uniformly legacy titles with hundreds of episodes banked. The Office, Suits, Gilmore Girls, etc. From a strictly greedy POV you would think at least one of them would attempt to produce their own…

I’m wondering how many of the cancellations we’re hearing about are about audience numbers or budgets and how many are due to the fact that execs anticipate year-plus gaps in seasons due to the strikes, rendering shows out-of-sight-out-of-mind. It could potentially be easier to clear the board than it is to remind…

Have any streamer shows attempted to run on a more traditional schedule? It seems like it could be a great solution to the cancellation bloodbaths. 

I also wonder if, by ordering 20 episodes, they were hoping to generate a high-count streaming-native binger show (like The Office, Friends, Gilmore Girls) that they could own outright.

I appreciate Anderson’s avoidance of becoming some anti-woke icon or edgelord. His answer is fine. There are perfectly valid reasons to alter work (especially under the direction of a writer’s family) or for leaving content alone. In the first case, the work can continue to be embraced without a bunch of asterisks and…

If one of the most inventive working filmakers can thrive with intimacy coordinators I don’t want to hear anyone’s griping about their inclusion. 

I’m just glad we didn’t let Helen Baxendale live her life without experiencing a public piling on about a 25-year-old performance. 

As a fellow Gen Xer, I get it — we don’t get talked about much. But the Silent Generation thing is misleading thanks to their weird rebranding. Until relatively recently, they were called the Greatest Generation and had epic amounts of ink spilled about them. They dominated every element of business and politics until…

I want to see a transcript of the meetings involving the design team. These issues must have been voiced at some point, which I’m guessing were ignored by the CEO who thought, “oooh, a DeLorean had a baby with an El Camino, let’s get this into production.”

OMITB makes me crave more cross-generational casts that aren’t necessarily familial. Selena Gomez isn’t even the 100th person I would have selected as a perfect scene partner for two boomer comedy legends but it works so damn well. It’s good that people called out the post but it’s pretty clear from Gomez’s collective…

Leave The World Behind was a great book. It certainly had eerie timing with the pandemic. Too bad the film seems to channel the book’s one weakness -- explaining the world-stopping calamity rather than allowing it to be unresolved. The relationships among the characters and the power dynamics are what made the story…