It’s a bit disappointing to hear about the stiff animation, because that’s arguably been one of the LiS series biggest achilles’ heels, and because they’re supposedly going back to redo some of the facial work in the first game with the upcoming rereleases.

I was a-ok with the length, because it gave us a ton of space to move almost all the storylines forward, which I’ve felt have advanced more piecemeal than last season (which at this point is my only major gripe with S2.) I especially like that we finally got stuff from Sharon that allowed the actress to show some…

Of course, which is why the conceit in show was explicitly that she had a cheap price inherited from a relative (so rent control, not rent stabilization.) But acting like it would still the equivalent price back then when factoring in inflation is misleading to the point of just being flat incorrect. No one, and…

It’s kind of dumb to go after the Friends apartment from perspective of how much the West Village costs these days, because while it was always unrealistic, prices in the 90s and early 2000s were much, much different than now. He tries to pretend like the difference in price is solely inflation, when real estate…

Like Sam, I’m pretty down on the Marvel Zombies concept, so the What If? was the right amount of entertaining a concept about as long as it should. Although if all your episodes are bleak endings it starts to undercut the actual bleakness.

Dan will always excuse cheating versus leaving a relationship and then “having your cake”, it’s kind of the price of admission with Savage Love.

I just can’t understand these letter writers who understand that their relationship has critically ruptured and then decide to prolong it out of some misplace desire to be the long-suffering one. If it wasn’t the pandemic, there’d be some other reason to feel guilty about tossing him, and it’d probably be equally dumb.…

The whole vibe of the headmistress cracking down and the inevitable student rebellion feels ripped from the amorphous never-was period of teen films past, and given that the show has always been a mix of eras and cultures thrown together (for a school in the UK it’s clearly wearing its US-focused background on its…

I can’t really say Ted’s standoffishness with Sharon is that surprising. We have seen her in the background the entire season, but lurking is a pretty good descriptor for it (the visual gag/metaphor with her getting closer every time Ted looks back being a prime example.) And despite a few glimmers of her interior…

I kind of hope that there isn’t really some “Dark Led Tasso” at the heart of his therapy journey, because that kind of just fuels those cynical “that person is only acting so happy because they’re overcompensating! I knew it!” takes that I hate (no, person, not everyone is as black-hearted as you.)

Why bother? Judging by the most-watched list on Netflix, their viewers are totally fine with mediocre or bad filler (and I’m not excluding myself: their output can often be so hilariously phoned-in that’s a ton of fun to watch, even if you forget the details two weeks after watching.) Since they own the distribution…

I live in New York, thanks, and I’m well aware of the school system’s terrible deficiencies and segregation. Framing it as a question of “I want my kids to go to a local school” ignores how local schooling is used to redline poorer and minority children from better schooling opportunities (leaving aside the issue of…

Bee benefits from a fundamentally unfair and racist school policy. That wasn’t debunked, that’s the reality of where she sends her kids to school.

While she’s not wrong, it’s kind of tough to take any sort of sermonizing about schools failing minorities from Samantha Bee considering her outstanding effort to make sure NYC schools keep failing minorities.

I think a major issue some people are having with the show is that this season has tried taking characters in a different direction, and while I have faith the show will land it, it’s totally reasonable to be sort of annoyed by those directions in the moment.

The secret weapon of this show isn’t its heart, it’s the facial acting on display by almost all of the main players, but especially Waddingham (I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actor who makes every muscle in her face put in work), Hunt’s Hush Puppy eyes, and of course Goldstein’s “the imperceptible facial twitch I…

Yeah, the lesbian period film genre is so saturated that Saturday Night Live is making jokes about it, and none of them are particularly good at actually demonstrating what it was like to be LGBT in those eras.*

I think people are so used to treating history as a continual progression from “bad” to “good” (or at least…

I’m confused why the setting is the 1840s, given that the tribunal aspect and the costumes look like they’re from 200 years earlier.

Eh, I think the Spider-Man films have suffered for it (along with making the vast majority of Peter’s character stuff stem from Tony) but I agree that in general, it’s been a strength of the MCU.

While I agree Lewinsky got a raw deal at the time, I don’t think “we created a ‘true crime’ story where we let one of the involved parties have a huge amount of creative input” exactly endears me to watching this. It’s just a new round of mythmaking to fashion on top of the old.