I like every Tammy-centered episode, but loved it when Lucy Lawless, as Diane, at her wedding to Ron, said her middle name was Tammy, then quickly said she was joking. Ron’s expression somehow said that even if that was true, he was still willing to marry Diane.

Clarkson was impressed by how “brilliant” the SNL team was, shooting on Friday and getting the finished video on screen by Saturday night.

Honestly it’s been very striking how dismissive people have been toward Egyptian reactions to this in every single article. Like there is absolutely racism and antiblackness in North Africa, at the same time it seems remarkably shitty to lump Egyptians who push back about the portrayal of their own history in with…

academic discussion of ancient history

“Why do some people need Cleopatra to be white?” the show’s director, Tina Gharavi, wrote in an op-ed piece defending the casting in Variety online last month. “Perhaps it’s not just that I’ve directed a series that portrays Cleopatra as Black, but that I have asked Egyptians to see themselves as Africans, and they…

Important thing I’ve learned since the last post. This is the SECOND season of African Queens. The first season was on Njinga Mbande, queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo, who I will confess I wasn’t aware of. I’d never heard of this series until now so I’m going on a limb and presuming it wasn’t the most popular…

I’m still waiting for a multiverse crossover event, the Council of Bens, where every martyred Spider-relative comes together in an afterlife nexus to dispense folksy wisdom from beyond the grave.

Truly cannot believe that no one has made a joke about her singing in Beauty and the Beast, with that headline.

I liked her as Meg in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, I thought that movie did a better job fleshing out Amy and Meg than earlier versions. I loved the scene where Meg basically tells Jo, just because I’m boring and don’t want what you want, doesn’t make what I want less important.

She made a shit ton of money from the Harry Potter films. She still makes residuals on the Harry Potter films. Her and Radcliff and Grint basically had to live their entire lives in a single franchise for a decade. If they all want to fuck off and do nothing for the rest of their lives (which, she’s doing other…

Really wishing he was in an egg instead of a cocoon right now.

It wasn’t a big deal when Superman died, because everyone knew he would come back eventually. When Adam Warlock dies, it’s explicitly not a big deal because it’s baked into the character that he will come back.

“Adam Warlock, Marvel’s best comic book character.”

This is exactly the right move to do, to be fair. Just don’t engage with it at all. People will move on a lot faster than you’d think.

I’m surprised you didn’t link to the Wikipedia article, where I assume you began your research:

The Expanse is the best get Amazon has besides “The Boys”. They reached the point in the story where there is a major timeskip so prob gonna be a few years before they finish the series.

The problem is that so much modern-day spy stuff just isn’t visually stimulating.

SIGINT is pretty boring to watch, hacking usually gets embellished to shit (save for something like Mr. Robot), and the paramilitary aspects of spying are now usually taken on by PMCs.

The other thing is that Cold War spying was…

If you thought he was bad in Eternals, try to find Bodyguard somewhere. It’s utter nonsense and there’s not a single moment in it where he is plausible as a human being, never mind as a bodyguard.

Ugh, this sounds relentlessly generic. My pet theory is the golden age of the spy drama was created by people who were actually, you know, spies. John le Carré certainly. Even Ian Fleming worked in intelligence during the war. The current crop comes from screenwriters whose only passing experience of that world is…

And they’re pointing to Bodyguard as an example of emotionally complex characters?!