I’m curious about that “male-identifying Lyndon played by a cis-actress” choice in light of Janet Mock as the senator. Is that in any way meant to reflect people making choices despite what their phenotypical biology expresses them to be? Is this supposed to just be an alternate, more progressive reality where gender…

That nearly sounds like how Dollhouse was meant to function when it was in one-off territory and how Community essentially worked. 

Until this year it did used to be best foreign language film, though there are a bunch of weird cases where the two are interchangeable.

I think Crazy Ex-Girlfriend somewhat did this, where the first season is a romp (from what I remember at least) and makes her incredibly sympathetic regardless of what she does, but as she becomes more self-aware and engages with her mental health then even the show itself seems a little exasperated when she…

That was my read too so I wonder if that was an intentional direction we were supposed to assume? Especially since we didn’t see how Tahani resolves that situation, even with all of her experience.

It is a weird title I don’t like, but I can see it aiding her transition from the stage name into something more serious if needed.

I think Charli XCX often makes some great earworms and I had no idea that Galantis is a Bloodshy project (nor that Bloodshy is part of Miike Snow) but at the end of the song I couldn’t help but think of that one Mario remix that was in that dancing cosplay Hermione video that went viral and how catchy that one was.

Nine days worth of movies doesn’t seem too far off from this generally positive review. I was surprised how stylish The Signal was when I caught it though so I’m curious how that guy handled a larger scale production.

Is that a Zack Morris reference or were multiple characters mixed race? I know the actor is but I don’t remember if his character was meant to be too in that case and I’m curious how that show would have dealt with that in the 90s when relatively recent things still stumble (Sort of like how KJ Apa from Riverdale is…

I think in the past they’ve said they reformulated that character in the time inbetween initial conception and Tim Blake Nelson’s initial casting, so they could only beef up the character so much.

I saw someone say that one of the final panels of the comic is a hand brushing against the manuscript, so in that sort of “remix” capacity the show ended on a foot?

Angela’s already had some trial by fire in terms of taking Will’s Nostalgia/sharing her mindspace with some else’s identity but still emerging out the other side intact, and the show seemed to pointedly throw so many terrible things her way that could make her want to reject everyday humanity yet she engages anyway…

Assuming they live. Will alluded to some sort of betrayal of Angela and we don’t know if it’s the death of Cal, the kids under his watch, or maybe setting everything into motion by having Judd kill himself. (Or maybe the clock somehow destroys Tulsa)

There were a lot of ellipses from her end of the story, but it seems plausible she would be enticed by the idea of stability and knowing a nominally safe future for at least a decade after all of the other shocks?

I adore the show but only have loose familiarity with the comic since I read it when I was much younger and out of a sense of obligation. (Sort of like Sandman except I came around on that one relatively early on in its trades)

I wasn’t aware of the connection between crawdads and Vietnam but now the Cajun pho place in my hometown makes a little more sense. (I assumed it was just a Francophone thing, aside from lack of Belgian waffles, or maybe someone’s weirdly specific life story in restaurant form)

If the complaint is that “the adaptation of a major American crisis in the 80s is now tackling a major American crisis in the 2010s” then it doesn’t make sense to accuse the show of blackface, when it is most interested in tackling that material in the first place. I feel like whiteface doesn’t apply either since that…

As best as I can tell it totally varies. Some of my cousins had English names bestowed on them totally arbitrarily since their parents with some English-learning in their background liked the sound of having twins names “Frank” and “Oscar.” Another one picked her own English name as an adult, after she also decided to…

He is going to be in Wandavision somehow, alongside Kat Dennings who is another prior Marvel actor who spent a lot of time in the sitcom world.

Yeah no worries, even by Kinja standards it seems like the network of sites have been a beast to navigate in the last couple weeks or months?