I've never watched a single minute of this show but I might have to tune in for Gillian Jacobs and Danny Pudi.

It’s telling that the comments mostly include slights against his relevance (he’s still a big name in Hollywood) and his profession (being an actor doesn’t disqualify your opinions) rather than his argument, which Schimkowitz couldn’t even bother to read up on before posting this stupid snark.

At least the debacle gave an overzealous conservative movement the confidence to reveal its terrifying and unpopular 2025 Project transition platform.

Currently, no one calling for him to step down has shown us what this process might look like because there is no historical precedent. There are no procedures or guidelines to follow.

No. Loren’s comment is spot on, actually. Hassenger writes hot take clickbait bullshit and then goes up and down the comments section arguing in bad faith with anyone who disagrees with him. All you’re doing is revealing your lack of familiarity with his M.O.

No shit. The point is that there’s been hand-wringing about exactly the number of sequels/prequels/spin-offs/remakes/reboots vs. original material out there for years now. Just do a Google News search; there are pieces going back to 2003.

The bad news, of course, is that Pixar is most likely going to learn all the wrong lessons from this. More thoughtful, funny storytelling that appeals to teens and parents alike? Of course not! More sequels and threequels that people will buy tickets to more out of habit than any actual desire to see the films?…

Agreed. I had to step in when two relatively laid back, thoughtful students began yelling at each other across the classroom at the end of last semester: One was convinced that it was obviously a fully polyamorous threesome and the other was convinced that the two guy were just bros who were chasing the same woman. I…

And Downey famously was actually considered a huge risk at the time because of his history as tabloid fodder.

But that the Dems looked around and said “yup, this is the best we have to offer” is atrocious.

Bit by bit, the multiverse is colliding. Patrick Stewart brought Charles Xavier back in Doctor Strange: The Multiverse Of Madness. In 2023's The Marvels, Kelsey Grammar appears in the mid-credits scene as Hank McCoy/Beast. But this is the first one to do a proper crossover and is considered a part of the MCU’s Phase…

I know, right? While we’re at it, why do public libraries exist? All they do is hold onto old newspapers, magazines, journals, and books from the past that few people use at any given time. Bulldoze those low profit bullshit sites and put up another Starbucks.

So how does Paramount profit from this? Is there a specific tax write-off that’s so large as to be worth the customer backlash?

The Bear just changed the music montage as we know it

I’m with ya. Over at Slate, Jack Hamilton has a piece about how he thinks the series has altogether fallen off in terms of quality, and for him the main culprits are lack of character and plot development (filling in characters’ backstories, he points out, isn’t the same thing as moving forward), as well as an…

I can’t speak for others, but as someone who really enjoyed Seinfeld, for me personally, “The Betrayal” (the “backwards episode”) was technically impressive the first go-around, but was light on laughs (in either order), and I haven’t returned to it all that often.

I’ve long said that they could set the first movie in the past and have the FF battle Annihilus and end up marooned in the Negative Zone, only to emerge by film’s end in the present MCU decades later, which would explain their relatively youthful ages, why most other heroes have never heard of them (or how they’re…

The Kids in the Hall was pretty revolutionary TV in general for me, personally, when it came to both representation and addressing LGBT+ issues head on. I have two moms, and growing up having a show like KITH was a godsend.

Yep. Outside of Courtney Love I can’t really think of anyone he’s feuded with. He’s known for making himself the butt of the joke, not going afrer others.

Actually I was thinking less of her fans and more about the pop culture blogs (like this one) and people who ostensibly should know better. Like it would be one thing to pass on that a fandom lost their mind about something; it’s another to presume that something must be true despite there being little to no evidence…