Rosenthal is on a tour right now promoting the book, and just this week I bought a ticket to see him in Nashville. I’m not actually on Netflix just this instant, although I’ve been meaning to re-up to see “Glass Onion,” and so I’ve got some catching up to do. What a terrific show; I’ve watched it since the PBS days.

That’s nice. It’s a very pleasant show that’s a very enjoyable binge on a rainy day. It’s the show my wife and I like to watch when we can’t decide on anything else 

Something can be not malicious or targeted and still break the rules and some of the communications in support of Riseborough that came from academy members may have broken those rules.

Allegedly, there are social media posts and emails that arguably broke the rules about naming other nominees. Francis Fisher posted on social media, but allegedly there are also emails that effectively said “Viola, Danielle and Michelle don’t need your votes because they’re locks.” So that verbiage + two of the three…

There are claims that emails and social media posts specifically named other nominees which is against the rules.

Except that it has now come out that someone connected with her hired 2 separate PR firms to promote her.

I think the issue is that when you allow people to personally pressure their friends and coworkers to vote for stuff, that can get ugly, fast. And the Academy is, generally, a small group of friends and coworkers.

a film that very people appear to have seen

Giving awards to films hardly anyone has seen has kind of been a thing for the Oscars for well over a decade, but sure.

Maybe I'm being an asshole, but shouldn't reviews be based on what a show does, not what you wish it did? I mean, the author of this review basically spent three consecutive paragraphs grappling internally about whether they understand the concept of the show or not. Do editors still exist here on this site?

Dear god, why have you seen “The Specialist” more than once??

“For much of her career, the roles offered to Stone either involved playing the psychosexual femme fatale.”

Counterpoint that Will Arnett may not be physically capable of being anything else.  

Pesci: “You think I’m sexy? Sexy how? Sexy like a bombshell? Do I arouse you?”

Stone deserved to be treated with respect on set, and it sounds like she often wasn’t. But I’m not convinced by her complaint that, “I came into this world looking like a Barbie, so it’s complicated for people to allow me the opportunity to be anything else.” Stone got a lot of opportunities because of her looks, and…

the audacity to film it as an almost dreamy, romantic moment between Tess and the infected host.

Weird take.

Tess is not being violated here.  She’s already infected, so it doesn’t matter that this Infected is spreading the fungus to her.  She’s using this opportunity to take out as many Infected as she can.  She’s playing for time by not fighting back against the Infected so it gives her enough time to light the lighter and…

This has always been a thing in Hollywood (with exceptions of course). Spider-Man wears a mask to protect his identity yet he keeps taking it off all the friggin’ time. It’s why any time Tony Stark was in his armour but couldn’t take his helmet off we got the shots that made it look like he was in a small spaceship.

Honestly the switch to a mycelium network just doesn’t work for me.