It can get like that when peoples’ fortunes diverge sharply.

If the fact that *she* couldn’t balance work with family as much as she’d want to is proof that you can’t have it all, what do we say about the many artists who do both?

The cast has to stop breaking in these “Temecula” sketches, because that means they’ll keep doing them. “Cook my meat” sounds like a catchphrase from an ‘80s sitcom.

In the meantime, Dune: Part Two co-star Austin Butler’s total commitment to gonzo insanity and—most importantly—using a silly voice all the time 

Has the stripper thing actually been verified beyond a blind item?

Reactions to things like this make me curious: is it just sort of accepted when women refuse to get over the end of a relationship? Taylor Swift writes songs about people she dated for a month like a decade ago, and no one even acts like that’s strange. I guess if the art it leads to is good enough, people will go…

In general, I find his line readings fun like everyone else. It just felt like a missed opportunity, and not consonant with the rest of the performances.

What would a knock against her sound like if “everything about her is average” isn’t one?

Saw it. Not to be glib, but it’s what I think many people would expect: extremely impressive technically, but made with a certain dour humorlessness that can’t help but feel a little silly. I also don’t know that I believed Chalamet as the “man” by the film’s end as much as I believed him as the “boy” at the…

Okay, I guess this well-meaning, but this is the latest in a long string of supposedly progressive commentators putting Israeli citizens (not leadership, citizens) last. Because “surround yourselves with Arab armies” is not going to make anyone in Israel feel safer.

However you measure it, the attention paid to that show constitutes a commercial success. A lot of people watched and engaged with it.

Again, I feel like “hate” is a spectrum. People enjoyed getting to actively dislike them. This would be in contrast to, I felt, Christina Hendrick’s husband on Mad Men, who was played by a pretty bland actor and not given much that was interesting to do when he wasn’t raping her. Other than the actor, who was at all…

Fair enough, but I have to ask: did you watch both seasons. Because I did. And the first was infinitely more entertaining, albeit not as the gripping backstage drama it was meant to be.

You mean when it was the embodiment of blinkered, insular white privilege? It’s almost like you don’t want the show to be constantly apologizing for being the version that people actually liked.

Obviously this isn’t the kind of show that they want to make, but I think this is a mistake. The character generated a lot of strong responses, and was a big reason why people were talking about that show, not in spite of how misguided it was but because of it.

I don’t know how dumb it is; everything else aside, when something comes first, it makes sense to hold that up as the standard. Not always, of course, but that’s often the default. I don’t know that it shouldn’t be. Although he could probably be a little classier.

Hopefully we’ll get Greta Gerwig’s take on this soon. The work won’t be done until she’s forced to respond to every on-record slight against her film.

Okay. I appreciate the exchange.

I certainly agree that, from the outside, Pizzolatto could have been classier, and that Lopez seems to be taking the high road (again, from the outside; who knows what communication was like not in the media?). I just found season 4 pretty overrated (mostly liked the ending, though), and can’t help but feel like, as…

One of my biggest complaints is that Navarro’s acting was wildly uneven. I don’t know that that could have been said about the first season.