I posted this above, but there’s 5, uninterrupted minutes of a fiddler on roller skates just being a fiddler.

That, and I feel like critics were beginning to sour on some of the tropes of the New Hollywood. We look back on it as a golden age and it was generally pretty good for movies but some of the relentless dourness was wearing on people. Like the downer ending on this one feels kinda like it’s just there to be a downer-…

It reads like a talented man high on his own success.  The Greeks themselves couldn't write a better morality fable then this.

The part that’s interesting to me is that all the dailies looked great, because yeah, in isolation all those scenes look really good, in combination it’s just too much.

there’s absolutely a case to be made that the 80s Satanic Panic is right there in the Q-DNA.

Yeah, I’m all for difference of opinion, but if your opinion is that some people don’t deserve the right to have the same existence as you, then you can fuck right off. It’s like if people defended Hitler for saying he has a right to express his opinions on Jewish people.

Starz is airing the show but Sony TV is selling the show to big streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime where the show is havin a life of it’s own. Starz’s niche audience doesn’t really matter anymore.

Hey they have other shows! Shows like Power Book II, and the upcoming Power Books III, IV, V!

Like Princess Di?

I love Rilo Kiley. The only concert I’ve gone to was a Rilo Kiley concert that happened at my college. And I fucking love Under the Blacklight, but their best song is still probably “A Better Son/Daughter.”

It’s like Utica not wanting to wear an afro because another white man (who was appropriating nothing but his own genetic code, and a refusal to use hair straightener) had an afro is like what you’d expect from a parody of being overly woke. And yet...here we are.

I kind of expected more from Tina

I think the problem here was that this was a perfect opportunity for Utica to be...Utica, and she didn’t grab the opportunity. I watched part of Ross’ ultraboring PBS show this morning, and marveled over the fact that she and Ross are pretty much the same person. Utica had so many great points of departure, but miffed…

“I’d at least say that Hayward is probably the hero in his story.”

It’s not even that I actively dislike Tina, it’s just that I’m not impressed by her drag at all, yet she’s been coasting all season. 

That is the mark of a good villain, or at least a more believable one, that they are the hero in their minds. Sometimes it is refreshing to have a campy villain who just is bad because it is fun, though in a more serious show like “WandaVision” I think he was an understandable, if a bit bland, secondary villain. Then…

The writers really have perfectly selected the sitcom scenes and the later (after we know the past) echos in her created world. I am going to be watching this season at least two more times to pick up things I probably missed.

I think he wants all racism and sexism to go away, which is not a bad goal, but what a mess he has made of it.

I'm guessing that Whedon's general snarky abusiveness turned what could have been a decent teachable moment about just such an issue into some assholery. If it had been a less jerkhole director, maybe... But who knows?

I was a lot more willing to think there was something more to Dottie when I thought the twins were Agatha’s (or someone’s) goal the whole time. Because then the whole cultish “for the children” section had a lot more depth. Now that Agatha is not there specifically for the children, and thus, probably did not trick…