A couple of additional things I noticed on a rewatch:

Well according the Entertainment Weekly, Luke Cage is the Woke-iest superhero, because EW talks like that now cover to cover.

Yep. That was pretty good TAI.

Whoa! Live Journal! I remember that. I was not popular on there. I mean, I liked Donnie Darko and Fight Club, but I wasn’t into Alkaline Trio and vaguely inferring I was suicidal, and apparently you needed all 4 of those things back in the late 90s, early aughts to be a good blogger. Or George R R Martin.

Yes. Like that grenade they kept showing in The Sopranos (they had one in a secret column at the house). That sucker never went off, or got used, but you knew it was there.

I miss the heyday of TWoP (it was probably Mighty Big TV at the time) when reviewers would cover Sopranos, The Wire, The L Word (someone should let Cameron know!), Six Feet Under, and the reviewers would note every background song, TV clip, or references, because, like you said, they actually bothered to bring…

Yeah, I’ve never liked her comedy, and I always read her “Where in the World” articles on here because the comment sections were so polarized. I personally didn’t find her funny, but expressing that was tough since so many people didn’t find her funny (or took that stand) that I got lumped in with the people that…

He does have “masterful tweets”.

Have I starred you out of the greys yet?

I understand that there is a need to get these reviews out in a timely fashion after they air, but all too often with his reviews he meanders around repeating the same general observations week after week.

He’s constantly got his guard up thinking everything is Ford fucking with him. The fun part is whether Ford really did plan for this and to what degree.

You should review this show. Maybe we’d get better insight into the show rather than:

The part that irks me the most is the “Why did the show choose to do THIS, I’d have rather seen THIS.” Then write your own show. I hate that shows are so eager to please their online critics. Every thing the internet doesn’t like, shows often have to “course correct”. We need our entertainment to parrot our views,…

It’s not right, but it’s what he should do.

Alex, and most of the crew here, always take the “I don’t think the show can handle this subject properly. Grade: C” approach. It’s almost like they have to preemptively hate things that make them uncomfortable.

Get Out Of Africa

Wow. Very well said, and very true.

Exactly. I like to think I have some self awareness where I acknowledge that my opinions are not infallible, merely my opinions. I think I’m a very tolerant, accepting person. I’m an advocate where I work for LGBTQI rights, my office is a designated Safe Zone, and I attend diversity and inclusion workshops.

We had a campus wide sexual harassment training where I work and after we took a break, we re-convened in the auditorium and the presenter had to make a few apologies for the first part of the session because people accused him of “mansplaining”. I always thought that was such an overused word, but good lord, can we…

It’s baffling that in a CON movie, they had to make sure not to have any double crossing occur lest the reviewers have to worry about “icky female infighting” or some other antiquated notion Hollywood apparently has to push back against.