It’s also likely to better stand the test of time than Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

High school history failed you pretty badly if you had to Wikipedia the Bolshevik Revolution or what happened to Russia’s monarchy. I understand not knowing the finer details... but, yikes. Pretty major 20th century history there.

Being English and living in London at the time, I think I and the rest of the country did enough cringing back then.

Came to say this. Dalton was the bright spot for me. Great casting choice for “the one that got away.” 

Honestly, Rollins was never a good character. From the jump, she was supposed to be some white trash country bumpkin stereotype (despite having come from Atlanta). Every attempt to flesh out this character—by creating a storyline around her sister, her parents, and her Atlanta-based frenemies—fell flat. The Carisi…

Great comment. I’d tell anyone who’s just starting the show to stick with it for a few episodes. It was jarring to me how much I disliked some of the characters in the first couple of episodes, but it softens up once they start fleshing out why many of them are so dysfunctional.

Yeah. My first thought is that C. Tolkien is not wrong, but my second thought is to wonder why the family might believe an Amazon series would yield any different result.

In Georgia, where we will be voting for the same U.S. senate seat for the third time in 3 years (special election, runoff, election), the GOP/dark money people have been running some of the same ads, wall-to-wall, nonstop since 2020. It truly approaches brainwashing levels. Doesn’t help that broadcast channels are…

The AR part of the game is the only thing they seem to invest in. The battling system, for example, is absolutely broken and has never worked properly. A lot of simmering discontent right now because after 3 months of claiming a fix was coming, absolutely nothing improved. I don’t think the company realizes the game…

Just about sums it up. People care about disinformation when there’s an insurrection, but not when young women spend decades being bombarded with nonsense about emergency contraception being “abortion pills,” about the health risks of abortion, 6-week “heartbeats,” “fetal pain,” re-implanting ectopic pregnancies, etc.…

It’s fucking laughable. NPR reported that reps from the companies who make some of these pills have no current plans to increase supply. Arguably, they already had about two months to plan for increased demand and didn’t. Of course, the real concern is that states will move to outlaw emergency contraception next and…

I liked the series enough, and I think that’s the point: It was meant to be the type of summer blockbuster that you don’t overthink. In some ways, the story might have been stronger as an adaptation of the JJ Miller novel Kenobi— But I believe they cannibalized too many aspects of that book in Book of Boba Fett.

I’m also guessing based on the casting choice of Olivia DeJonge and the reviews I’ve heard so far that the movie sidesteps the issue of a 14 year old girl being courted by a man in his mid-20s.

Am I the only one who thinks her real target is Vader and not Kenobi? Since she’s clearly one of the padawans from the opening sequence, my thought all along was that Obi-Wan is bait to get her unrestricted access to Vader, so that she can attempt to avenge her slain friends.

I thought this series made for an interesting comparison with FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven. The Staircase chose to focus on the couple’s children so much, ironically to demonstrate how their lives were turned upside-down by the media focus. Banner of Heaven meanwhile chose to change/obscure the identities of some…

Coming soon: Paleozoic Park. A thrilling trilogy in which Chris Pratt must save humanity from being mildly inconvenienced by genetically engineered trilobites.

There is a certain irony to the fact that, at the moment, this story is running on Jez’s front page next to the story about women escaping a misogynistic cult.

I had the same problem with Michael/Holly as I did with Leslie/Ben on Parks & Rec. Couples with a brother/sister or “goofy friend” chemistry that I never fully bought as soulmates.

Prince William filled in for his mom at the ceremonial opening of parliament, after Queen Elizabeth missed the event for the first time in almost 60 years, citing mobility issues.

To me, it seemed like the show was hacked to death. Season 2 was terribly edited. There were clearly missing scenes and other things that made no sense. Knowing Greg Daniels, they probably filmed at least 45 min of content for each episode. It’s a mystery to me why a streaming service would insist on keeping these…