Yeah, seems like you could just as easily frame this as “we’re not quite back to pre-pandemic levels, but we’re definitely trending in that direction.”

“And if you take out the nearly $600 million made by Barbie and the $300 million earned by Oppenheimer since both films were released on July 21, this summer actually falls below 2022.”

I think the first couple of seasons are actually pretty sharply written—never gut-bustingly funny, but there’s a lot of clever one-liners and the cast and their chemistry are enjoyable enough. It was only after the writers realized they had a hit on their hands and that they would have to spend an indefinite number of…

“Tough scenes, literally, for Ross’ doomed relationship with Emily.”

*diction nazism

I’m in my mid-30s and not that far into my decrepitude, but I really appreciate: 1) subtitles, because contemporary sound mixing sucks; 2) large fonts, because I insist on sitting 10 feet away from a 50-inch screen rather than 13 inches away from a 70-inch screen, as seems to be the norm with gamers these days; and 3)…

Apologies to the grey who made the same joke two hours earlier.

Nah, YA fantasy tends to not be so stuck up its own ass exploring DEEP CONCEPTS like REINCARNATION and ORIGINAL SIN. Most YA fantasy has competently written female characters as well.

I’m not exactly sad to see him go. If I recall—and jesus, it’s hard to remember anything about this show—the original actor played him as kind of a joyless sourpuss, when Mat is supposed to be like the one character in the entire series who isn’t a joyless sourpuss.

[Nynaeve tugs on her braid]

“The fact that I am not especially interested in seeing Florence Pugh’s nipple in the normal course of my day doesn’t make me anti-woman or anti-nipple, any more than not wanting to see my neighbor’s ball sack hanging out of his shorts while he mows the lawn.”

I love how these idiots act like its a slur while paling around with lunatics who quote Mein Kampft and adore Donald Trump.

Please don’t call me a terf [trans-exclusionary radical feminist], please don’t keep using that word against women [praying emojis] I beg you!

But they dId ThE rEsEaRcH.

Those sure are some ugly attractive people.

The Heartstopper kids exclusively communicate through Instagram DMs. It’s confounding—at least to me, a ‘90s kid almost a decade out from my own angsty high school days.

It doesn’t help that Diamonds just wallops you in the face with aggressive 1970s-ness. Colorful go-go jetsetting 1960s cool? Nah, that’s passe--make everything brown and orange, dim the lights by 20%, and give all the villains ridiculous muttonchops.

...Is Sophia Coppola considered the “patron saint of teen girls”?

If quotability is our only metric then clearly the prequels are clearly the best Star Wars movies. I mean, who could beat:

Man, we’ve well and truly lost the battle against unnecessary slideshows, I guess. At least this is a mildly more interesting topic for a listicle than the blatantly search engine optimized “Ranking the Top 30 Romcoms Streaming on Hulu Right Now” posts which seem to crop up every other day now.