In general the “foreigners” tend to do fine, don’t they? The real danger is if they hit some technical involving something no-one British or otherwise under 40 makes or eats, but there’s rarely a bunch of native bakers who do well those rounds either. 

As was underlined last season with the young Scottish chap who’d been watching this show a good chunk of his entire life and made Paul seemingly age two decades in the span of a two-second realization, at this point people should really know what to expect some weeks. Has there ever been a contestant who has done a…

I definitely can’t see the character breaking down the absurdity of what’s going on in the end working as well without Farrell in the role. The “crazy pills” lampshading helps sell how preposterously fun the climax is (also: the further and further we move away from 2000, the more hilarious the fact that a ZIP disk…

Despite Zoolander being an over-the-top comedy, there was enough serious criticism of, at the very least, how dumb the fashion world is (and how cruel and exploitive it is at its worst) to make it resonate. The Esquire piece brings up jokes that are dated, but I don’t think that matters to most viewers, because it’s…

The comics point out that while running around as a guy is obviously noticeable, running around with a gas mask after it’s clear that it affects Y chromosome carriers is also drawing attention to yourself. Given that trans men exist, and this show is putting in work to update the understanding of gender and sex from…

We’re old and out of touch, man!

My first thought is... I don’t like it? From a pure motion design standpoint it feels like it’s awkwardly straddling the 2D graphic->3D photoreal divide. The stuff that’s most directly ripped from the original title sequence feels the worst, because it loses the dynamism that comes from hand-drawn, hyper-kinetic…

I’m definitely game for a fourth and final season. Switching up the format will probably help with some of its issues (although further breaking apart the plausible reason all these people can have scenes with each other won’t.) 

Yep. One of the things that bothered me with Hope is that they conflated progressive and open-minded sex education (and just acknowledging nonbinary/trans people do exist) with “well fuck, do whatever the hell you want, I guess, orgies at school.” As generally shitty (and specifically racist, although I think that was …

Yeah, it might be a case where the show leaning so hard into its classic 70s/80s inspirations was a false start. For the most part they’ve been pretty good at starting with stock archetypes and richly exploring them, but Hope never gets to go beyond her role.

Yeah Otis has his fair share of shitty behavior but being honest with Ruby wasn’t one of them.

While the will-they, won’t-they stuff was drawn out, the season had enough twists in it I wasn’t much bothered. I wouldn’t say I shipped Otis and Ruby, but their relationship had a surprising amount of depth for something that could easily have been stock, pulled-off-the-shelf “nerd gets the hottie” dross.

I definitely see where people have felt S2 has been much slower on moving all the balls in the air than S1 (which was stupendously paced.) But I thought this episode did a great job moving most fronts. The interleaving of Ted and Rebecca’s stories and the acting Waddingham and Sudeikis did here were definitely good…

It definitely shouldn’t, but I can’t fault the lady for being pissed that the writers didn’t even bother doing a solid Google session to write an accurate line (since they bothered name-dropping her in the first place.)

It’s nice to see Gerard Butler in a film where he seems to be having fun? Among the worst parts of the Stuff... Has Fallen film series is that they make Butler look like he’s constantly fighting constipation while delivering the terrible dialogue.

Eh, I think that would (or should) limit how you integrate your characters into the real-life history, because otherwise you substantially rewrite it to feature your characters either subsuming or overwriting real people, or they’re constantly on the periphery. While that is a choice you can make, I can’t imagine The…

And they already did it with Manchester City last year (of course even with home field advantage it seems kind of ridiculous a Richmond with “two aces” loses far worse than they did against the same team last year, but I get the dramatic point.)

After the brief glimpse we got in S1, I assumed we were just gonna’ get raging asshole Tart dad, but the reality is much more plausible and much, much worse at the same time. His deliberate provocations immediately followed by the “it’s a prank, bro” defense is such a smarmy and inspired move for the character. Really…

I’m definitely being a little loose with the definition for the sake of the joke (I’d include Oxenfree in that subgenre, for example, where Alex’s possible sexual orientation mostly comes down to interpreting a comment in a Bang, Marry, Kill game.)

But I think what you’re saying leads back to the issues some people had…

This is a solid theory, and I’ll be happy if it comes back to it. I’m definitely in disagreement with Myles that the overarching football stakes are super-important, but having it come back to haunt a specific character relationship would justify it.