Having just watched it I think it works. By narrowing the focus to just two characters in the first episode and using flashbacks (Fran is just kind of there so far, so doesn’t count. I expect and hope she’ll get her “focus episode” later), they’ve given themselves a lot of freedom to hit the important beats of the…

Stephen King’s rejection of good taste is probably the key to his appeal, but he misses the mark it leads to stuff like Spearchucker TV (which I guess was meant to be ironic? I have no fucking idea - it was "sewer orgy" levels of whatthefuck). 

You see that a lot in books of a certain age, even when you can tell that the author is on their side. In the nuclear war classic Alas, Babylon, you can tell that Pat Frank likes and sympathizes with black people, putting them pretty far forward in the story, but the portrayal is still cringeworthy to modern eyes.

I loved the original miniseries and read the book. I was on vacation with my 3 year old niece when I read it, and she would see the paperback on my nightstand and called it “the book with the big and the many words”.

Considering how much the first episode jumped around in time, I’m guessing we’ll see some more of Captain Tripps’ spread, but probably not as much as I had hoped.  

My big concern about this is that the book has some rather, shall we say, dated depictions of black people, and after New Mutants I REALLY don’t trust Josh Boone to get that times have changed.

“Now Walmart is back to remind you it exists”

“Now Walmart is back to remind you it exists”

NO, I work hard for my sleeves. I’m a small business owner who earned every sleeve I have, and no one helped me other than the bank giving me favorable loans (used partially for sleeves), my parents floating me cash/sleeve money, and the employees that I underpay (and undersleeve) to get a nice vacation. I’ll be…

Yes, shows like Hoarders are built specifically to allow everyone else to look on in abject horror and judge them mercilessly (really, this is the basis for most reality television).

Yeah, yeah, I get it. No true Scotsman would ever call that poor, etc...

I got a Community notification for this?

The director’s not wrong. The guy can’t even afford sleeves.

I get the sentiment here, but I think it’s more about the gall of a potential employer thinking it appropriate to be talking shit about an applicant *actively during their interview* like a Simon Cowell aside, regardless of if he got caught or not. And particularly the horrible optics of pitying their perceived…

I could get you a Chromebook and a 43" flatscreen delivered by Friday for $30/mo so it’s not exactly like any of that is proof that he’s not poor, either.

“He has a flatscreen TV instead of a $10k projector setup? He must be so poor!”

He must be listening to all those commentators on Fox going about how all poors still manage to have a flat screen TV and iPhone (which is why they are poor apparently). Obviously he could tell he was poor because the flat screen TV isn’t big enough.

I heard it the way I heard it from the embedded video and clicked-through to the TMZ link described as the director saying he had no reason to apologize, before he apologized for not giving the actor his full attention, presumably after he had been internet shamed. So, the information was all there. You just had to…

The repetitiveness is a fair criticism, but the use of blackmail in lieu of powers is working for me (for now). Yea, Vought’s spins can be a little frustrating, but the fact that the Boys’ best weapon against super powerful people and super powerful corporations is the same thing (leverage) speaks a lot to how our…

Not sure if I’ll ever see this. The first one hit me in just the right context - I was graduating high school (like Bill and Ted!), the movie was filmed where I live in Phoenix, and the soundtrack was absolutely stellar late-80s pop rock.

69 is general considered a D+ grade in school though