There are times when non-linear storylines work. Yellowjackets is an excellent example where it does. But for this series, it’s a mistake. I’ve seen the first three episodes, and I’m convinced the should’ve played it straight, linear, from beginning to end, showing how these two meet, and how their relationship…

I watched most of the true crime media around this case, because I just found it so baffling, and you can really see the journey Lynn Roy took. In the Dateline episode she’s still in full “lock that bitch UNDER the jail” mode, but by the time they made the HBO series she seems more resigned and sad. At one point she…

“Where is the defense of Lebron James whose hairline was the source of a joke like an hour before this? His hair loss could just as likely be medical.”

You don’t need to be portrayed as being frail and sick to be worthy of compassion. She shouldn’t need to meet some weird standard of “being sick enough” to not have her condition cruelly called out. She deserves an apology too. It was unfunny and just a generally shitty thing for Rock to do. The slap wasn’t OK, but…

So no professional writing experience, just an arrogant armchair quarterback. It's well past time to grow up boss.

How much professional writing have you done? Do you understand that you and everyone involved are fallible humans? These people are writing thousands of words a day, have deadlines to meet, potentially distracting personal lives, etc. That’s why editors are a separate position.

The idea of transforming a 2D character into CGI being a cosmetic surgery is such a delicious plot detail. I hate how much creative effort constantly goes into reanimating the dusty corpses of all-but-forgotten IPs from my childhood, but fuck it. This one has my blessing.

For DC neighborhoods, Adam Morgan would be a good one. I'd be surprised if no porn actor has yet named themselves Foggy Bottom.

“I don’t care what other people think” can have an array of meanings. Like “don’t let other anxiety about other people’s judgments ruin your life” is good advice, but I find a good 80-90% of people who make that line part of their public persona actually mean “I don’t give a shit who my actions hurt because I’m…

and I think there’s something to be said where there’s a difference between just being an asshole and being a toxic asshole. It’s one thing if you’re just brusque and insensitive, it’s another when you make others you work with actively miserable and hurt because you can’t control your own behavior. I’ve worked with…

Chevy Chase basically does some version of this interview (link below) every few years, in part as a way to wonder aloud why he isn’t getting work. He also trots out that line, “I know who I am, I like who I am” and then wonders why that doesn’t fix everything. Why isn’t Chevy Chase getting work? Because there are…

Thing is, there are plenty of comedians who can play a smarmy asshole without actually being one.

even back in season 1 of Community, long before any drama blew up, if you watch the DVD special feature “cast evaluations”, you can see Dan Harmon and Donald Glover sarcastically joking around about how “not” racist Chevy Chase is.

I have no doubt that Chase had a miserable childhood. That’s been fairly well established. But dude seriously trots this out every time someone wants to talk about his also well-established pattern of being an unmitigated asshole. Dude, you’re 78 years old and rich and famous. Get yourself some therapy. At this point,…

Yeah, natural languages are living things and really cannot be controlled in the ways some people want to control them. Meanwhile, “whiteness” is a deeply problematic concept to begin with, so typically there is no great loss in recognizing when something like a way of speaking is not specifically “white” but rather…

LOl yeah! All fat people are lazy and eat like shit! It’s about time someone stuck it to them with a new and fresh joke that isn’t older than time itself! Right on!

Move slowly, make sure mistakes are not made.
Bill Cosby’s conviction was a slam-dunk...until it wasn’t, due to a mistake on the prosecutor’s part.  And...now he’s out.

Too soon!

The movie was great, the book was okay and Chuck is a total whack job.