Hold up, did this bullshit just cost Amber Ruffin her job as the voice of the purple M&M? Coz I will not stand for that.

Eh, this is a misleading story. It wasn’t too strange to get her cast. It was too strange to get her past the UCB showcase to try to land an actual SNL audition. Which describes roughly 15 years worth of content that was on the UCB stage...

Is it safe to assume that the judge will consult with a framed photo of her late dad, instead of one of Mel Torme?

Was I supposed to read this in Matt Berry’s voice? Because I totally did. 

This joke took me a second, but on reflection it is excellent. 

The pacing was confounding and atrocious. And I am someone who enjoys slow, patient scenes. The dialog in this show was interminable. The pacing paired with Miles Teller’s completely flat affect...jesus, what a combination. He is right, though. Amazon shouldn’t have buried it; They should have aborted it.

God, this show is fucking awful. I swear his direction was “pause for 3 seconds before responding to every line of dialog.” It was artificial and intentionally dull and bad. It cemented my general confusion about the persistence of Miles Teller’s career. As in, why does he have one?

What an amazing character actor. I just re-watched T2 and was reminded what a great screen presence he had. But as a huge fan of those old LucasArts games, I had *no* idea he was the voice of LeChuck! That blows me away! Gotta go back and listen to his voice over work again.

Smith acts too hard. That’s how I feel about him. He’s always seemed most concerned with projecting his celebrity on camera, rather than playing his character and telling the story. The post for Emancipation just oozes that to me. 

I’m not sure there’s any title that would alleviate that concern, having not seen the first film. Maybe “Glass Onion: A Completely Stand-Alone Story (You Don’t Need To See The First One)“?

I think it’s fine as a title, and it perfectly communicated to me that it would be another mystery a la Knives Out, involving a completely different cast of characters. It might be objectively kinda stupid, but it did the job well, and eliminated confusion. And it’s just a fucking title. Who cares. Titles and poster…

That’s the ultimate end game in Silicon Valley, anyway. The number of people I heard casually mentioning their “golden parachute” while walking around SF pre-pandemic was alarming. It’s all a bit of a grift. In that sense, Musk is getting *precisely* what he deserves, and I hope the people he laid off who did the real…

Ah yes, a real business genius decides the fate of a corporation’s leadership via public informal poll. What a twat. 

I predict that if this kind of thing continues (or maybe even if it doesn’t), SAG and the various writer and director guilds are going to get involved and make it more costly for streamers up-front. They’ll have to get their members more money up-front if residuals are effectively going away. This is going to amount…

I look forward to the book, or lawsuit filing, that will be written about this next-level bullshit Hollywood Accounting.

The Subtle Art of Claiming Stoicism As Your Own New Idea

1. “I think I’m 20% black and 80% comedian” *really* sums Chappelle up, doesn’t it?

It’s weird that we weren’t all overly enthusiastic to watch the latest season of a show whose central theme is Humanity Is Essentially Trash in the midst of a soul-crushing global pandemic...

Yeah, I’ve noticed this happening lately and it’s bizarre. They’re grabbing crap off the newswire even if it’s a summary of something they originated 3 days previously. Lazy click baity bullshit. 

This movie is objectively bad. I can’t tell if he thought he was making a bad comedy, or a bad horror film. But it looks like a series of the interstitial scenes from Mystery Science Theatre 3000.  The production value, lighting, acting...it’s all terrible and excusing that by calling it “camp” is just lazy.