Rhea Seehorn could read the phone book and it’d be appointment t.v., and I’ll watch anything written by Vince Gilligan. This is great news. 

Like Abed’s doc about the making of the dean’s commercial.

I’ve read the book and, without spoiling much, it combines a frame tale with a found document style-narrative. There are multiple points-of-view included in the different narrative threads, one or more (all?) of which are at least somewhat unreliable. (They often contradict each other).

It was especially disappointing because 1) most of the cast were born to play those parts (e.g. Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane), and 2) of all the titles that could do an inspired take on a Marvel horror film, the New Mutants were probably the best bet. It's a shame.

Star Jammers, Shi’ar Empire, the Brood... X-Men in Space has so much potential.

All of this plus, during Claremont’s run, especially, the X-books were the comic book equivalents of a soap opera. You need a television series just to tackle who’s all sleeping with/has slept with/wants to sleep with whom, who’s secretly related to whom, what other deep secrets they all have, etc.

Apologies in advance for the inchoate analysis, but season 1 (and early season 2) seems to have more on-location shooting of the campus exteriors than later seasons, with the characters walking about and even extensively doing stuff outside (in film studies speak, it has more of an open frame than later seasons). Seaso…

I remember reading years ago that Chris Claremont’s inspiration for Fenris* came when he watched a Pink Floyd video that featured two actors with bleach blonde hair. Seeing that screen grab for “The Fletcher Memorial Home”, I’m guessing that, if the story is true, that was the video.

1. I love Community.

From listening to Martin Short and Steve Martin in interviews—like on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s podcast recently—they know Chase’s reputation for being difficult, but they also both seem to have fond memories of working with him. I could see Chase landing a guest spot or even a recurring character on Only Murders…

I thought, “That looks like the mom that Britta tells Jeff he has to bang to get back at the Schmitty kid in that episode [‘The Art of Discourse’] of Community.”

Yep. And as stated above, human memory is frighteningly fallible.

I mean, he used the word articulate, which in the context of race is about as loaded as you can get.

“I thought better of him!” At press time, we don’t know why she thought better of a guy who posted a picture of the bras thrown at him at concerts...”

Franken probably could’ve stayed in the Senate. There’s a decent chance the ethics committee would’ve cleared him with a little more than a tsk tsking. The most salacious charge came from a model who was on a USO tour with Franken where she behaved in a similar way to Franken (she had dry-humped Robin Williams on…

If it’s fake it’s pretty lame. Why not go all out? Just set up a green screen and have him break up Godzilla and Mothra going at it or some shit.

I said this yesterday in the comments for the post about the Louis C.K. doc, but, again, to me Dan Kois’s piece doesn’t read nearly as acidic towards Short as people have made it out to be. It needed a clearer thesis, an editor, and a much better title, but even as is it’s not a takedown piece by any means. It’s more…

I almost mentioned that while Kois seems to enjoy Only Murders, specifically, even there he still takes a shot or two at Short. Again, the ambivalence is on full display. This is how Kois ends the piece:

Having seen the piece in Slate before the backlash to it began and having warm feelings towards Martin Short, myself, I remember thinking that the headline (“Why We Keep Putting Up with Martin Short”) seemed odd. It seemed even more so after I read the piece.

I’m guessing that you’re mostly calling attention to the word salad, which is indeed quite bad. Assuming you’re interested in the basis for the tortured analogy, too, though, I happen to somehow know the following: