The Michael Jackson story has me wondering at what age MJ’s acquaintances felt comfortable specifically calling him a man rather than a kid or some other diminutive name. Not sure whether Eddie is dismissing MJ as a flash in the pan, so much as someone who doesn’t come across as a grown-up.

It feels like what’s about to happen is akin to a game of musical chairs where 80% of the seats disappear during a single round.

“Daenerys’ creep-ass older brother, who was definitely not warm or kind or decent”

Lynch’s DUNE is totally worth watching, especially if you have the opportunity to catch it on the big screen. I have seen some irredeemably bad, boring, and forgettable films, but this is not among them.

Not sure if it’s supposed to be Tweedle-Delilah, or one of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

When he showed up onscreen I wasn’t even sure who he was supposed to be playing. Looked like Paul Giamatti as the Keebler Elf.

To sidestep controversy, all black characters on THE SIMPSONS will now be voiced by Bill Cosby.

THE KNICK was a great show - oftentimes it came off as “history as horror”. There’s so much squirm-inducing stuff about medicine, race, class, corruption, etc in NYC from just over 100 years ago, and you could always count on this show to provoke a ton of OMG moments per episode. (Unshielded x-rays treated like a…

Why not reverse the JOHN WICK formula and have *the dog* go on a killing rampage when his beloved owner is murdered by gangsters?

I had totally forgotten that they killed Hooch at the end. In a buddy comedy film!

The classics are already in the thread (Lucy, Ronaldo, Fonzie), so here’s a lesser-known statue that makes Mr. Fred Rodgers look like either a skinny Chet-as-turd from Weird Science or a skinned/burnt extra from Hellraiser:

Hopefully Jeff Bezos or his relatives really liked the show, because he has the influence and deep pockets to make it happen at Amazon even if it was only breaking even.

Gibson’s profits from the first film should be able to cover the de-aging CGI bills for the sequel.

If the major platforms like Disney and Amazon decline to pick up a series they could immediately market as winning the Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program, then there has to be something else afoot. Seems very weird to frontload all the work on this series . . . and then drop it the day after it gets the highest…

Whichever platform picks this up would have a day-one marketing advantage of being able to pimp this out as “the Emmy-winning series.” Seems weird to just drop this property back into the void right when it gets Emmy validation.

Assuming that McConnell railroads through a replacement before the new Senate takes over on 3 January, it will be time for Biden and a Democratic Senate to pack the Supreme Court.

Agreed, the only reasonable option for Democrats is to threaten to pack the court if the GOP pulls a fast one here, especially if the Senate and/or Presidency flips in November and the GOP still tries to force this through a lame duck session in November/December.

I have heard many well-connected journalists say that RBG was supremely confident that Hilary would win election, and that she declined to retire before the 2016 election because she wanted to be replaced by America’s first female president. Oops.

The roughness of this heel turn reminds me of the parents who named their daughters Khaleesi or Daenerys before they saw the final few episodes of GOT.