watching jon favreau’s eyeline is.... ya know, I don’t blame him, but it’s pretty sweaty

Do you have a problem with the literally dozens of directors who have never or very very rarely casted a black lead? If not, you can see the door

I feel like this was the Tidal of video streaming service announcements. Trot out a bunch of big names, gloss over the details of what we’re actually getting and whether we’ll actually want it, and then inevitably launch with a bloated price. They don’t stand a chance against Disney+

Tbh how much do you think $10,000 is worth to a famous television star who is about to get a sweet book deal?

Plea deals happen all the time, although it doesn’t appear based on everything I’ve read that Smollett actually got one as OP said (happy to be proven wrong here). Either way, a plea deal as described would not be the type given to the average defendant, who would obviously be much less wealthy and famous than…

I mean, nearly every dark and gritty cop show will have the detectives going over the line at some point. As someone whose pretty invested in restorative justice, it takes a bit of a remove for me to watch a cop show, so maybe it’s that I’m already just not engaging with the work at that level. I think the show is…

So I’m gonna ignore the numerous statistics about racial difference in the criminal justice system and the reports of extreme racial bias from the DOJ, bc I assume you can find those by googling, if you’re not already aware. I grew up mostly around white people in a pretty white suburb. No one I grew up with ever had…

I haven’t looked back at the older reviews since they were posted, so I can’t speak to those, but I will say that some of the racial analysis in her graph about the major scene of the episode is... confused, to say the least. On the one hand, she seems to have wanted the show to place more culpability on Wayne and…

So, I generally disagree with Emily’s take on this season, but I think her writing is great (loved the Twin Peaks reviews), and am reeeeeeeeeally fucking sick of the attitude she’s getting in these comments. First of all, art can be criticized and analyzed through any lens based on any criteria. Emily is at liberty to…

ah yes, “you’re with us or against us, so if we think you’re against us we’ll surveil you, discriminate against you, lock you up, torture your, and invade your country.”

I’m just a little confused as to the distinction between “tricking” the audience and giving them a proper mystery. It’s definitely a little different than the first season, since with three timelines and more going on in the first two, there are more places where characters might naturally mention something that…

I’m really curious how The Last Jedi somehow went against what we expect from the brand? Is it because the Jedi are painted as having been ineffectual against the dark side? Because that’s the whole point of the prequel trilogy and one of the only interesting/good things about it (even if it’s portrayed rather…

I just think this is a really poor example to prove he really views women beyond their sexual desirability and looks. You can point to his art for that, but his marriage has always been a little skeevy. Sure, he and Soon-Yi presumably want to be together at this point and hopefully she has agency in that, but the…

The reality is, like most things related to the behaviors of humans, the science is unclear and messy and points to divergent answers. This nytimes article is solid https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/health/men-rape-sexual-assault.html

Sometimes it is about power and there’s a lot of interesting writing on it. I…

To be fair, if the point of that scene is that the 5/9 hack and Elliot’s actions unleashed a lot of discord in the world, late 2015 is exactly the time when Trump picked up steam off of his muslim ban comments and the paris attacks

I don’t wanna make assumptions based on one comment, but it sounds like where you’re from is somewhere the government has an undue amount of control over individuals’ speech and respect for democratic norms is pretty thin. That’s ok, because the vast majority of countries are like that or heading in that direction,…

I think part of the perception that violence has increased has to be with our modern media culture. Everyday you can see stories, videos, and pictures from war-torn regions browsing news sites, watch fights on social media, and hear about all the weird, scary crime in your area from nightly local news anchors. The…

I don’t think you have to be less appreciative of the show’s (and book’s) nuance and subversion of fantasy tropes in order to also enjoy the CGI blockbuster HBO aired every Sunday this summer.

this is one of those theories I enjoy more as a thematic subtext than if it was ever spelled out in the show for us

I think reshoots assembled by a trailer production company are liable to be a littleeee worse than Joss Whedon's, but who knows