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A Romeo and Juliet sequel that’s Sherlock Holmes is just so weird to me. Like, I get that “rhymes with gnomes” thing, but also...Romeo and Juliet sequel that’s Sherlock Holmes. It’s like a bizarre fanfic mashup. Why not a Hamlet sequel that’s Die Hard?

The pushback is mostly “streaming is the future! Get with it, elitist old man!” But he has a point—Netflix is pretty contemptuous of theatrical releases, and only goes through with token theater runs to go after an Academy Award. They’re intentionally exploiting a loophole.

I think Earn’s problem is that he’s too passive—when he puts in an effort, he can get Alfred some good opportunities, like the streaming service last week. But Alfred is on the fence about if he really wants to go all in on making music his primary career and all that entails—dealing with clueless white execs, for…

re: the Clarke County manager: It’s probably both. I’m sure the manager being a white douchebag who fits in with the bigwigs in the industry helps, but also, Earn is kind of a terrible manager. Earn has no long-term ideas for Alfred’s career—just chasing the next gig or appearance. If Alfred is going to be getting…

This motherfucker wants to start wars in space. Maybe with space? Who knows.

Good news...for him

Ari Aster went to the same obscure southwestern art school as me, but graduated a year or two before my freshman year. Also, the school has shut down and doesn’t exist anymore.

non-joke answer: They are filing in actual, massive water tanks.

I mean, James Cameron has already said the sequels will explore the oceans of Pandora, and talked about the technology they’re building to shoot underwater.

That was perfect. Listening to demos and mixtapes is their job, but they don’t have a CD player because I guess the high-tech wireless system is too sleek to have a CD tray. Such a rich white young person thing: assume literally nobody ever uses technology that is even slightly outdated.

They didn’t explain how he would double the money on the card, but that was the scam: put $4,000 on mall gift cards, but use it to buy $8,000 worth of stuff. Somehow, it didn’t work, and Earn only had 10-20 minutes to spend the gift cards.

Dropping the full $4,000 on a gift card scam was so dumb. Isn’t Earn trying to find a place to stay? You can’t pay rent with a mall gift card, no matter how much money is on it. God damn, Earn.

A Wrinkle in Time: It is 100% committed to what it’s doing, but overstuffed. A lot of the concepts aren’t really explained—in particular, The It isn’t really defined much, except as the abstract concept of bad feelings; what it wants, or having Meg or Charles-Wallace would further it’s goals isn’t explained at all.…

A year late.

Isn’t she in “New Mutants”? It’ll be that.

Telling that he specifies he wasn’t “blackout drunk.”

Life-Support Music!

That’s probably the heart of it. The problem is that it ends up creating a quantity over quality dynamic, that may not be what gets people to subscribe. Without a big hit driving the conversation that people are interested in, you end up with endless lists of recommendations, which can vary wildly in quality. They…

Yeah, I was thinking of season 2, which had their biggest, most conventional ad campaign. Season 1 I heard about entirely through word of mouth and online reviews. I didn’t even see a trailer for it until I went to the show page.