He kind of looks like you took a Clive Owen mask and stuck it over Bill Clinton, rather than the other way ‘round.

Yeah, but my point mostly is that this isn’t really a show that’s concerned about the finances of a football club (while some of it is undoubtably down to COVID, it’s not even much interested in the appearance of what running a football club would look like) so I just mostly think people expecting stuff like the Dubai…

In trying to reconcile the people who feel so much with these movies and the people who pass them off as mediocre trash, I’ve come to decide (besides, obviously, people love stating subjective tastes and objective truth) that a large part of what does or does not work for the MCU is how much someone is willing to get…

I don’t get some of the criticism about consequences here since, as you mention, they’re clearly setting up a confrontation with Nate. Ted Lasso has clearly set up a world where there aren’t global consequences, it’s about the personal relationships and conflicts of the characters. The effect of relegation I don’t…

The press release at least has “complex” in there, so I doubt they’re going to simply ignore that stuff. The question of how much one’s sins stack up against one’s accomplishments is always one for a debate.

It wins me over by actually presenting Miami as the flooded dystopia it’s due to become!

I believe the modern price per oz/unit stuff is a result of a 2006 Uniform Unit Pricing law, because a) that definitely wasn’t around when I was a kid, and b) they absolutely wouldn’t do it if they didn’t have to.

This is one of those things I think about every now and then when I read Savage Love’s roster of people who apparently can only have gratifying sex under extremely narrow conditions: yeah, what are you going to do when you get old? The jerk husband is right about one thing: the market for 50-something guys who aren’t…

Given that I’m *that guy* who has bought *Myst* three or four times over the years, I’m happy to not buy it *this time* and get it on Game Pass.

The fact that there’s not anything substantial in this teaser (a 30-second trailer? A few days before it drops?) to try and bait you suggests that the only “shocking revelations” involved will be the reality that Ross was a human being. His first marriage ended over accusations of infidelity, and it’s not really…

Obviously it’s immaterial to the film portrayal of the character, but Wu in the book is an interesting contrast—Hammond’s focus on “what’s real” with the dinosaurs is harming their viability as a park attraction, and Wu’s the one trying to get the inflexible guy to bend. And then he gets eaten.

I don’t begrudge BD Wong the work, because even as a kid I wished Wu had gotten more to do (in the novel he gets ganked by some raptors on the rooftop, at the very least if someone shows up in a dino movie have him get killed by dinos), I just wish the return of Wu in Jurassic World hadn’t been in the service of the…

Like the choice to not release the first three episodes at once, dropping the Christmas episode in the middle of August is one of those things that’s just not going to matter for the millions of rewatches that will happen at some point in the future. I know lots of people regularly pick out the holiday episodes of…

Oh, I would agree. There’s plenty of obvious and subtle criticism throughout, and I think those generally worked better than the ‘serious’ episodes because they didn’t feel like they were actively fighting against the sitcom’s character to do it (the same thing could be said for Jake and Rosa going to jail... you knew…

I read that scene as the whole cover for the “it’s Christmas, we’re not going to move those plot threads forward, but they’re there” theme that this review brings up. Higgins doesn’t strike me as someone who’s going to berate their kid’s admiration for their sports heroes because of his background knowledge of how…

We’ll see how this season goes, but from what I’ve seen thus far I’m not sure their goals, however well-intentioned, are going to work. B99 was from jump a goofy show, and it only got goofier. Probably the only really good criticism it gave the NYPD was early in the run when Chelsea roasts Holt over his focus on PR…

Antiheroes don’t have to be perfect, they don’t have to really be good, but there has to be some reason to root for them, and he’s nice to animals that unconditionally love him because they’re dogs seems like a really, really low bar. It doesn’t sound like they’re really addressing how screwed up he is, so it seems…

I don’t think it matters, really.

It’s kind of a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation. No one has to just be quiet and take false accusations lying down, but it’s always a good idea to be mindful that said false accusations are the minority of cases, and we generally have a bigger issue with people not being believed in cases of sexual…

I dunno if Colin is supposed to be queer, but he was probably my favorite of the second-tranche players from last season so if they give him more to do I’m happy (his “Doctor told me not to drink” line followed by an immediate swig in “For the Children” always cracks me up.)

I’m happy that the show is dealing with the…