I feel like it’s more someone *just* watched Taxi Driver, looked up the Wikipedia page for King of Comedy and thought, “Yeah. I can pretty much imagine what watching it would be like.” Because beat-for-beat, Arthur Fleck and Travis Bickle have an extremely similar arc. And the things Joker has in common with King of Co…

I guess I was mistaken by what you were implying.

Who’s calling a $42-44 million opening “tons” of money?

You know, for reference, the 2016 Ghostbusters opened to $46 million, $2-4 million more than Frozen Empire is projected to open this weekend. So I guess this installment wasn’t woke enough. Or something.

This is “tons”?

The move has introduced more people to great stuff like Insecure, sure, but it also been accused of being a somewhat shady way to squeeze money out of these shows without necessarily looping in all of the people who are initially involved.

I’m not sure what the response would have been had Bell made a workplace complaint about the abuse he received.

I agree. Keep sipping the conservative kool-aid.

Never said it’s the government’s fault. I would like to see the government step in and do something to improve people’s lives - the entire point of having a government to begin with. Sorry you politically disagree with improving people’s lives by discouraging toxic workplaces. And if you don’t think democracy is…

I have to pay for my own therapy, I have to figure out what — I mean if there was anything, if there was any truth behind them actually caring, there would be something more than quotes on a page by obviously a legal representative telling them exactly how to tailor a response.

But wouldn’t the immaculate conception of Mary have been 2,000 years ago too?

There was, but I think the people who called Joker a “remake” of King of Comedy vastly overestimated how much.

So all we have to do is bash Jim Spanfeller to put the AVC out of its misery?

Was White Lotus more widely seen than Euphoria? They’re both on HBO, and I think Sweeney’s part on Euphoria is bigger (it’s certainly more revealing), and it was released first.

I think the word “committee” implies a group that includes stakeholders with little-to-no artistic vision or creativity. Professional movies and TV shows are already collaborations, so I don’t think sneering at “made by committee” devalues collaborative work at all. Rather, it recognizes that the starting point, the…

Maybe it’ll win over people who never liked Timothee Chalomet?

Starbucks is a capitalist company. Stop blaming the socialist boogeyman for every problem in your life.

I don’t mind talented artists using prompt-based generative A.I. I don’t mean just typing something into a prompt box and calling whatever the generator spits out “your” art, but using it as an element of a larger work? I don’t have a problem with that, though I think most people would, especially here.

I’m probably overestimating most people’s office experiences because I regularly read the Malicious Compliance subreddit, but in a production office, it’s not uncommon. Most people put up with it either because they’ve accepted that’s the culture or because most jobs only last a few months and then you could be…

The plan: get people excited for a revival of The Office by convincing them that they’ve been cast on a hidden camera version of The Office.