That’s fair.

Was it really him, though, or her? Because I’d bet a lot more people know Sydney Sweeney than Glen Powell. I pretty much forgot he was in the new Top Gun. To me, he’s that guy that was in that Netflix assistants movie with Zoey Deutsch and Lucy Liu. And that was in 2018.

The Broadway play “The Shark Is Broken,” running last fall, was one of the most bananas behind-the-scenes looks at the making of that movie. Shaw’s son wrote it and played him, and honestly, I came out of it just wanting to watch the movie again to see the barely contained rage in, well, everyone, haha. 

There are a lot of reasons why this just isn’t feasible, but they mostly boil down to money. It actually costs a lot to film and edit a stage show, because you can’t just point a camera at the stage and call it a day. There’s also very specific language in BC/EFA contracts about paying the performers and other artists…

I keep hearing that they’re going to bring in book material, which is just the most pants-on-head crazy thing they could do. As a person who reread the book and saw the show again just last fall (and thoroughly enjoyed both!), they are VERY DIFFERENT BEASTS. The book is a political/spy thriller. The musical is an ugly…

I genuinely can’t tell if I’m too old or too young, but I have *no idea* what this sentence means.

I still don’t know what he’s talking about, and I don’t even know what to google to find out.

This is always my answer to “if you had a kajillion dollars to adapt anything, what would it be?” Because that book would be the most insane found-footage, talking-head “docu-series.”

... I have that sticker on my (not-Stanley) water bottle.

She’s pretty good, too, which makes it worse. I cringed every time someone called her by name.

This kind of behind the scenes info fascinates me. I read an interview ages ago with Diane Neal where she said something similar — that all of the legal and courtroom dialogue is overseen by attorneys for accuracy. I also have a lawyer dad whose part-time hobby is yelling at the various L&Os about how they’re nonsense…

I don’t know about it being brightened after the fact, but I do think that it absolutely depended on what device you watched it on. I’ve seen it on two different computers and a smart TV, and the shiny new smart TV was by far the easiest to see through the darkness.

Leaving aside The Color Purple, mostly because I haven’t seen it and I last read it in high school, did Maya’s grandmother actually disown her? I only watched the first episode, but it seemed in the hospital scene that she really mostly hated Maya’s father. She didn’t stop them from leaving, but I didn’t get the sense…

Didn’t they do that in a different state and it was vandalized almost immediately?

It probably has something to do with parody exceptions. I know he jokes about the power of HBO’s lawyers (and how he stresses them out) frequently, but I can’t imagine they’d really want to take on Disney. 

David Tennant and Catherine Tate happen to be my favorite, but I’m more stuck on the fact that we’re supposed to know that this is a Much Ado adaption. Like, that’s one of (if not my absolute) favorite Shakespeare plays, and not once in the onslaught of marketing for this film did I have any inclination that this was…

That is a weirdly bad picture of him. I saw him recently in the Sondheim show the article mentioned, and he looked much more like what you’d expect him to look like. 

Yeah, he seemed have some healthy skepticism about the whole concept in the last episode — I certainly didn’t think he was plunking down his entire fortune. Honestly, I thought he was in on something with Maud and the two of them were going to expose some shady biz. This felt like a misstep. But now I want to go back…

some kind of (probably ahistorical) tough but fair deal

Oof, I forgot about the kid. I sort of understand getting caught up in the “thank go we didn’t die” moment, but I’ll be perfectly content if it just stays a little awkward and doesn’t turn into a full-blown affair.