Sub-De Palma?  That’s an intense burn.  What does that mean?  Worse than super-hacky and overrated?  Are there bands that are sub-Creed?

Is Kenan the Phil Hartman of this era?  Relatedly, is he a top 10 all time SNL guy, somewhat surprisingly?  I think yes and yes.  

Clarence Thomas!  (Admit it, that would be KILLER.)

Is that Thomas Barbusca!??  YES!

So... are we hating on all bazillionaires? Or just this one? Cus it seems like there’s a lot of anti Bezos venom and I’m not seeing it for the other myriad bazillionaires who are not donating shit to climate change.

Other than reality peeps, does he have the most inexplicable career in entertainment? I can think of a LOT of better standups and comedians who don’t get his support. And I don’t even think he’s from a connected family... Maybe he found the portrait that Lorne Michaels keeps hidden above the set of SNL?  

Great interview.  Next time, can you ask him about Last Temptation though?  

To be clear, I hated Alphaville (and maybe some stuff from that era) but it was presented to me as Godard’s best. I don’t know if that’s accurate, though, and I think I may have formed an opinion on bad facts (and listening to morons). I’ll check those out.

Yes, that’s a great sequence.  I’ll admit, I like the FNW of…

I love FNW, and I adore Truffaut, but I got burnt out hard on Godard and Resnais because I knew too many NYU kids who were “obsessed with” Alphaville and LYAM.  I watched both and got my first experience hating “classic” films.  (I think Alphaville is a genuinely bad movie standing on its own.)  All that said, does…

I got a French Dispatch for ya! “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même Wes Anderson.”

Does anyone else feel like they’re copying Chris Ware’s style on the art for this?  (I don’t believe he’s involved.)

I dispute that he does “the one thing” because his “the one thing” has really modulated and grown. In fact, he’s one of several “one thing” artists who have done a nice job expanding what that “one thing” is in the past 20 years. (GBH and MK are also his best movies.) Wes’s schtick is a lot more elaborate, deep, and…

Counterpoint - it doesn’t matter if we try to understand them.  It won’t lead to any more success.  And it’s boring.  I don’t care about Michael Myers’s backstory, it doesn’t justify his mass murdering, and it’s  boring.

Timothy Chalamet - The Adrian Zmed of today!

I know I’m a distinct minority here, but I’m quite excited for this season.  Homeland is a strange show, but one that has shown a great willingness to adjust to the climate and stay relevant.  (I also think the show got better when it killed a central character that overwhelmed it, early.)

That endgame was sublime. The best part, by far, was the jump from Angela to A View from Halfway Down. For the entire run of the show, Bojack had developed an internal view of his life as follows:

1. He had a horrible childhood marked by terrible people. (When he’s thoughtful, he realizes that those terrible parents…

Oh for sure, he’s profiting on the back of labor. Like... nearly every capitalist icon. I’m not sure how Amazon is different from, say, Apple, the garment industry, the food industry (production or service, your pick!), the jewelry industry, energy, or mining. I’m not sure that Bezos can be “the worst” when people…

Wait, why do we hate Jeff Bezos now? Because Amazon is an evil service we all use? Or because he’s a rare plutocrat willing to repeatedly attack the disaster in our White House? Or just cus he’s not cute?  

Shit.  No judgment, but I hope you’re in a better place now.  That is truly unacceptable.  I say this as a straight dude.  Just, no.

I feel like the Bernie base wants to pretend that, if they keep insisting Bernie is likeable enough, that everyone will like him. IDK. I won’t. And it’s not his policies, it’s him. I think he’s annoying, ineffective, and has no track record that lets me believe he’d be an effective president. I’m on Warren all the…