Today I discovered that Renee Elise Goldsberry is 51.

I love this show & the entire cast but especially Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa. I really enjoy that she and Barbara, the veteran teachers, are wise & practical, but not cynical & they do care about their students. 

Me too! I re-watched Season 1 in preparation of season 2, and I think his joke ratio is so high but more subtle than Ava for example. I love the whole cast, but he just slides in casually and usually gives the biggest laughs. When he does the “that’s trash” callback and tosses the kids’ breakfast club essay I just…

From my own experience with 0ther AE fans, the tone and style of the show “works” because it caters to an audience who likely never watched The Office or whatever. I’ve never watched any “documentary-style” show before Abbott Elementary, so it feels fresh and funny to me.  If you’re someone used to that style already,…

Sometimes its good to be basic. So like pizza and Gritty everyone.

Janine getting the hug from Gritty actually made me go “awwww,” but my favorite moment of the episode was probably the quick cut to Ava inexplicably hula hooping during her presentation.

Unless I read the opening credits wrong (I wasn’t paying a ton of attention), William Stanford Davis-- Mr. Johnson-- is now a full regular cast member, which is a good move.

The two shows had a ton in common - the nursery/playroom setting, the Nanny character (who is, indeed, only seen from the neck down), the focus on imaginary play, including having the setting appear as whatever the babies are pretending it is.

After more than 20 years you just shrug. it is more of a wow that is humorous and accurate. Execpt for the principal, just scary perfectly accurate.

It’s a charming show and Quinta Brunson is a ridiculously enthusiastic performer. It’s catching. The writing is decent even if the concept is more than a little derivative. Pretty solid cast, although I think the show would benefit from leaning into its influences and featuring an antagonistic kind of Dwight…

Hot Take Alert:

All the K-12 teachers I know find her either triggering or hilarious. There’s absolutely no in-between with them.

I am struggling so much to get through season one because the Principal on this show is such a perfect nearly exact copy of my current principal that it is triggering.

You didn’t need to make this about Marvel. We can tell you’re trying to rile people up, and frankly it’s embarrassing.

Woody Allen?

I like Scorsese’s movies, except for that nervous fella who always directs them.

This seems like a lot of work for a film that’s already received largely poor/dismissive reviews, will come and go without most people noticing, and seems to not even be getting a wide release in the US.

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Thor made $144 million its first weekend (the metric for the $19 million quoted in the article). Considering these articles have been bemoaning $10m or less weekend winners for the past month or so, it shows some improvement, but it’s not great. For comparison, Bullet Train made $30m its first weekend and Nope made…