Online polls for audience scores for popular culture are not accurate. It only counts votes from those that decide to participate, is easy to manipulate via ballot-box-stuffing, are extremely vulnerable to brigading and are awful at nuance.

Yeah, these munches are strictly amateur hour. The latest story I’m seeing is that Chabon is leaving Picard over a creative rift, when a simple Google search would show that he and his wife are showrunning a CBS adaptation of Kavalier & Clay, his beloved, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that he’s been trying…

“in the run-up to its release next week”

I was saying Boooooooen Schwartz. 

When he said, “The other thing is, I get to hold up to nature the insane self-involved hypocrisy of artists and what they think they’re allowed to do on occasion, just my opinion,” I honestly wondered if he was thinking of his recent recurring cast mate Johansson.

Not just blackface. 

Not only that...but playing a role whose entire thematic purpose within the movie is to criticize the presumption of people who do blackface.

RDJ more talks like a machine gun. He says a lot and not everything he says reaches the target but you get the general idea of what he’s trying to say if you step back and look at the overall pattern.

Joe Rogan is a curse, so I’m not surprised something bad came out of this.
1) He “got to be black” for a summer: this actually makes sense. If I were an actor I would love to play the King in The King and I...and 20 years ago I could have...now I can’t. I would have deep-dove into history, into costumes, into accents.…

Spot-on with the observation on West and Elba. I was a little surprised when Luther started running in the U.S. and I realized Elba was actually British. While most Brits go with a standard Midwestern accent, both West and Elba are capable of doing some pretty good regional American accents as well.

This show is terrible. 

So the show can happen! 

The MVP of the show is clearly Laurie’s hair piece.

I’ve noticed a lot of Brits do that along with adding a touch of gravel. It’s the calling-in-sick-to-work-voice.

For some time now I’ve noticed that Peak TV, sorry, “Prestige” TV, was essentially following the path broadcast TV took decades ago and I suspected we were due to hit a Fred Silverman era any day now. Congratulations, everyone, here's your "Supertrain."

As awful as Malcolm was, he was competent (ridiculously so). Awful and incompetent just reads as annoying, which is what Gad came across here.

The Brink was one of those shows where you hit the TV to try to make it work right.

and as a (presumably) rich passenger, Karen is very comfortable throwing her weight around.

Yeah, this sucked ass. It was awful and if Ianucci’s name wasn’t known to be behind it, I think most reviews would call it “kinda shitty.”

I’ll give it another week, but I felt it was pretty uneven as well.   A few laughs here and there, but largely a bit uninteresting.