Impact vs. intent argument. You can’t separate prevalent social norms from personal culpability. There’s a self-righteousness to our current culture that has trouble recognizing that. But part of the trouble comes from the fact that, on a moral level, it doesn’t really matter. Harm is harm. I am less personally…

Claiming he had custody just makes it worse, morally and legally. Him being in a position of trust, like a foster dad.

Then I hope this empowers more of those many victims to come forward.

Right, but power is power, and if this makes other victims feel more capable of holding their own abusers accountable, isn’t that how we make sure we don’t turn back?

I’m not sure how Murry Chang would answer, but the point I take from it is that the net can be cast far and wide because there are a lot of guilty people out there, so you can’t stop at Tyler, and there are many more victims.

*girl in the front row in a Midsommar flower dress*

1) The Penguin - a capitalist supervillain with a large nose - is Jewish in the show. He is not-Jewish in LITERALLY EVERY OTHER ITERATION. The writers specifically created this detail for the show, so that the Penguin’s son could have a bar-mitzvah… themed around money. (This ties into old stereotypes about Jews being…

What’s really starting to hit is how we’re rapidly approaching six degrees of mass shootings. So much footage of people who were in mass shootings showing up on the scene of completely unrelated mass shootings in completely different states.

Someone brought them back to life and attached their bodies together? I guess genetic engineering really has gone too far.

Somewhere, Mary Shelley and Michael Crichton are shaking their heads in disbelief.

He desperately needs to collaborate with someone who is not Roman Coppola.  I wonder why he doesn’t co-write with Owen Wilson anymore?  Those collaborations are still his most well balanced films, after which Anderson just spirals further into his own style, to where his last few films really feel like parodies of his…

Hugh Grant has never really been an upstanding guy over his history - it’s just that the times have changed and he hasn’t.

I even like the boring ones ... but yeah, French Dispatch was a bit of slog, highlighted by the luminous Lea Seydoux.

I absolutely love the arc of his career; around Darjeeling I would’ve said he was done, the wheels have come off and the thing is out of control. But he’s just leaned into the skid. Most other directors would zig and zag, trying to recapture past glory and public approval, but he’s just doing his shit whether we like…

Agreed, but the last one was just....boring

I’m not sure if it qualifies, and I’m sure it’s not intended to be camp by anyone involved, but the way every one shields themselves from bullets by holding up their bullet proof jackets over their face never stops looking insanely goofy. They look like Kronk trying to hide.

The Meta ads (which run constantly on Hulu but nowhere else, as far as I can tell) are hilariously vague and inept. Think the metaverse is stupid? Yeah, well one day a farmer is going to be able to pop on his old augmented reality googles, conclude that his soil is “dry,” and then turn a little floating dial thing to…

friendship with faze clan ended, nebulous AI investments are my new best friend.

We recently rewatched it with the kids and it’s a real good movie. I think it’s overall tone is a bit melancholy which turns people off 

My interpretation is that Tom never had any intention of betraying Shiv, until he realized she was telling the truth in the “I don’t love you” scene. I think it was a snap judgment and not a long con.