This is a great write up, but I have to disagree with you about the courtesan scene. He wasn’t trying to avoid making it seem like he thinks all Japanese women look alike, he was trying to hide his disappointment that it wasn’t (he is lead to believe) Mariko.  

This is actually an enjoyable and fairly well written article on what’s turning out to be the best show on TV right now. Whoever decided to saddle it with this asinine title should be fired.

Yeah, like...I’m all for felons being hireable once they serve terms (that’s kind of how serving a jail term is supposed to work), but FFS the crime and the context have to be considered. In the case of a sexual predator who victimized kids, YOU DON’T LET THEM WORK AROUND KIDS.

Richard III isn't political guys, trust me.

Right. But he did MAKE a choice. He CHOSE to set it in a country with highly partisan rhetoric, lots of armed jagoffs, a free press routinely under attack moreso now than ever before, etc. Holding him responsible for that artistic choice is not asking much.

If he didn’t have anything to say about America, and he’s seeing “the same stuff happening” in Britain, then I don’t understand why he set it in America. I think he could have better avoided people mapping their political views onto his story if he just made up a country, or used analogs of American cities and states…

“Garland explained that it’s about political divisiveness in general and our insistence on ‘talking and not listening.’ He said there are politicians and people in the media ‘on both sides of the divide’ who are ‘wonderful’ and that ‘left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state’ and nothing…

Well you’ll find both sides doing it today.

Shakespeare made the same claim about his War of the Roses series. “Nah, nothin’ to do with present-day England, nothin’ at all.”

American media loves to put out political satires that aren’t actually satirizing anything, they just have the tone of having  something important to say. See also: The Regime. 

So basically the exact same bullshit the guy behind Three Billboards threw out when people called him out on making a movie with the message that racists can be perfectly decent people.

Alex Garland, “both siding” political violence and domestic terrorism

The electoral college is the only thing that gives the Republicans hope they can get back into the White House. They haven’t won the popular vote since 2004. And they probably wouldn’t have won that one if it wasn’t for the Iraq war mongering assholes scaring the shit out of everyone, and that John Kerry was not a…

Guessing he means Nolan

Electoral colleges were already on the decline globally before our constitution was written. (It’s more of a medieval thing.) When they decided it for us, it was already dated and strange. That’s why today, we’re the only country with one at a national level. The only other ones remaining anywhere are for social clubs,…

You have to wonder how the morale is at The Daily Show. I can’t be the only one who watches the Jon Stewart episodes pretty quickly after they are available, while I sample and decide whether to watch the others sometime during the week. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ratings for Jon Stewart’s episodes are multiples…

They didn’t recap the Best Original Song list either, reminding people that they were performed throughout the night, so of course they wouldn’t recap the Best Picture list

Shameik don’t like it...

I’ve been thinking on it because although we enjoyed Kimmel’s swipe back, we were like “don’t give Trump any oxygen man!” but after thinking about it more.... his crimes are honestly so steep that I kinda think paying zero attention to him is actually being more humane than needed here. It’s kinda like how people…

I can’t speak for WW, but my family would rob me blind much faster than a stranger. I’d be in the cheapest home they could find inside a week while they sold off or stole everything I owned. And they would feel 100% justified I’m sure, but fuck them, I’ll set my shit on fire before they get a fucking penny.