“Throwing big name stars at a comedy is almost counter-productive”

Santa Clarita Diet. Covid wasn't even happening and they can'd it.

Uhm Steve Carell, Ben Schwartz, Tawny Newsome, Lisa Kudrow, Aparna Nancherla and Jane Lynch are all comedy folks and known for that first and foremost. They are also actors as things go. 

And not just once, but twice!

I feel they had this show conceptually all wrong. They should have focused the show around Ben Schwartz’s character, a washed up PR guy desperately trying to put a positive spin on a disaster of a space program, as those are by far the most entertaining scenes. The fact is they have no idea what Carrell’s character…

Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin should kick Steve Carell’s ass

I think this is good. I mean Parks and Rec had a super rough first season but slowly became awesome after that (although King of the Hill was hilarious from the start). Now I can just wait to see what kind of reception season 2 gets before I decide if it is worth it to power through the half of season 1 I haven’t…

I feel like you really shouldn’t be expected to risk asphyxiation just to make a shitty James Cameron movie?

Really? They’re going to renew the Trump joke that’s already dated, but not GLOW? Netflix needs to get it’s shit together. 

The memoir was popular because it contained any number of sharp observations. The racism and cultural snobbery on display in the review and on this thread is amazing and enlightening.

Does it end with Vance taking a job at a venture capital firm run by Peter Thiel, like in real life?

The rush to Hillbilly Elegy was just 2016's version of What’s The Matter With Kansas?, the main difference being that Thomas Frank wanted to help people, rather than grift and sneer when not hanging around such luminaries as Peter Thiel and Amy Chua. This film will mostly just be remembered as the latest version of…

Reminds me of the film What’s the matter with Kansas?

so it strikes me that Amy Adams is playing the evil Mirror Universe version of her character in “Junebug”where she was also faced with economic and societal problems, but kept her optimism

Also it’s sometimes used an anti-semitic dogwhistle, especially if the words “costal elites” or “globalist” are used in conjunction as synonyms.

This same source says Trump doesn’t have a “concession speech ready and [has] no intention of recognizing Joe Biden’s presidency,” even by attending his inauguration, and that Melania and Barron have “stayed in their private quarters” throughout the stinky hamburger conferences.

I’m honestly surprised to learn that Fallon’s Tonight Show has writers.

Seems more like an excuse to leave a miserable show.

To be fair, the main bullet point of her job description is “Make Jimmy Fallon funny”. Even without the Trump thing, nobody can deal with that level of job stress.

I believe Tina Fey was the first head writer to also do Update, so she started that trend, then Meyers and now Jost