On the one hand, I think this is deeply stupid. On the other, it isn’t hurting anybody, it’s employing a bunch of people, and if folks who aren’t me like it then I’m happy they have a show to like.
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A few random thoughts:
* Oh, are we mad that the fifth male lead of the fourth-best movie in a franchise where 11 movies total didn’t make what Endgame/Infinity War/Black Panther made was underused? Puh-leaze. Peters’ Quicksilver was fun and had two good scenes, but he wasn’t the cosmos.
* Notice how all the clamoring…
Monica’s “they’ll never know what you gave up for them” moment really rubbed me the wrong way. Wanda has my sympathies and she absolutely does the right thing in the end but the show has been very careful to point out that her spell did to these people what she most feared for herself - it separated them from their…
So it’s my responsibility to have a baby because I’m supposed to support other people in retirement even though I’m never going to get to have one?* I mean, I’m not one of those people who’s unwilling to pay taxes in to support the public good. I’m happy to pay a higher tax rate (obviously based on income with…
Also a fun time to remind everyone that we’ve never actually seen a generation retire with the 401k system rather than pensions, and the general assumption is that it’s going to go terribly.
It goes beyond using her personal life for song inspiration, though, which everyone does and no one should be criticized for. For me it’s that she directly plays into the narrative by leaving clues and hints in her liner notes begging people to speculate who she’s talking about in any given song, then behaves as…
OMG yes.
Imagine becoming rich and famous because you wrote songs about your past relationships and then getting pissed because people talk about and joke about your past relationships.
It’s stupid, not particularly funny and is definitely outdated, but Swift absolutely had to know what her rabid fanbase was going to do once she sent out that tweet. She just created her own Streisand Effect giving global attention to a dumb joke, dredging up the last decade of gossip about her love life, and…
Bruhhh this is so embarrassing. Imagine being as rich and successful as this and still giving a shit about a throwaway line from a not very good netflix show. Just go take a bath in diamonds or something, Taylor.
She should know by now that her extremely earnest, extremely devoted, extremely online fanbase will go into attack mode over things like this and therefore directed her ire - if she felt like she had to say anything at all, which evidently she did - either in private or at the appropriate person namely the writer, or…
I had no idea how much I missed a classic AA Dowd scathing review.
“sweat and curse and jerk off and fire a gun and slide a needle into his arm,” known colloquially as the “Florida lunch break.”
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About Ronan being Allen’s biological child- while he is listed as such, and nobody in the family has ever definitively said otherwise, go compare his features with Farrow’s and Frank Sinatra’s. He looks so much like young Sinatra; almost an equal combination of Frank and Mia. There is not one shred of resemblance with…
It’s not one of his more talked about movies (it’s truly awful,) but he had one that came out in the early aughts called Hollywood Ending where circa-2002 Debra Messing, Tea Leoni and Tiffany Amber Thiessen were all absolutely head over heels for circa-2002 Woody Allen. Technically, only the first two were in love…
The comment about “Woody Allen the steamroller” (as opposed to the public image of Allen as a neurotic) reminds me of how Orson Welles absolutely pegged him for what he always was decades ago.
I have NEVER understood why he is lauded as some genius auteur. I, since I was a child found him repulsive and scary. I couldn’t understand why it was believable that beautiful, very young women would date him in his movies, and why anyone thought that was a story that made sense. In my opinion, the reason why several…
Does the series touch on the fact that Allen tells us repeatedly, in film after film, who he is? How many movies has he made now about a young, barely legal woman getting ensnared by a creepy old man (often played by Allen himself)?