Stanfield has a bizarre energy I find really engaging but it’s not like that means he’s actively protested against working for major companies. He was in that Netflix live action Death Note (granted I didn’t enjoy the movie enough to see his take on the weird lead detective) and it seemed like he whisper campaigned…

I don’t know if I ever tried the apple flavor one but you’re in luck— https://thetakeout.com/lime-skittles-are-coming-back-permanently-1847751818

I’m not sure if it was mostly the ghost effects, but it also seemed like there were essentially no sets built for this special and everything was just bluescreened into a CG background?

I read about the tete a tete in the second episode and how it was originally a 12 minute exchange between the two characters in the rec room, but it got cut down to 8 minutes by the final episode and I didn’t realize it was that long.

Oh good point, I guess whatever initial press release there was didn’t spell it out one way or the other, but I figured they would have used the word “animated” at some point. (Also typically I thought animated projects announce co-director teams where necessary to have someone more familiar with the medium help out.)…

I remember reading and digging it too, but I don’t really recall it being particularly action-focused?

Was Be Cool well received? I remember a lot of buzz about Mystery Inc right before it for its serialized storytelling so there were a bunch of die hard bon-child fans. After a bunch of initial disappointment for the Be Cool character designs being a lot more contemporary animation, I don’t think I ever really saw…

I watched a weirdly celebrity packed* late Simpsons episode yesterday with Martin Short. Like in Only Murders he plays an effete and insane visionary Broadway director, but skimming his IMDB I couldn’t figure out why that’d be a recurring interest. And even though he and Martin apparently work together a lot, I can’t…

I do wonder what’s up with whatever South Korean tourist boards or tax incentives went on. I think Black Panther and Age of Ultron were two of the Marvel movies to shoot in Korea, yet each of them only had about one or two Asian actors with multiple speaking lines?

For whatever reason didn’t they take Lupita Nyongo’s previously all CG character and make her a practical effect in the last one? I forget if there was a reason for doing that (cost? curiosity?) but having a more limited movement stand in still might help.

I surprised myself with the vehemence I felt the 7-ish minute version of Untouchable is leagues ahead of the still fun single version, and the idea I would ever care enough to about really any music to be that kind of “album vs radio vs other edits” person. (But “We’ve been doing pain for so long” is a much more…

The Protege seems like it’s close enough to the specifics and even came/comes out this year yet somehow it doesn’t seem to be on anyone’s radar. Was I the only person who got banner ads for that?

The songwriting and production was so bonkers and occasionally nonsensical— yet the members all managed to totally own their particular niches. Harding was amazing at selling the feeling behind her lines and was so vivacious, I’ve apparently been in a funk about this all day.

To be fair, I assume that’s since she worked with Lisa Joy on Westworld. I figured it was some combination of a favor for a directorial debut, they like each other, and they’ve liked the work they managed to produce together in the past. 

There’s also Naomi Ackie’s non-entity former stormtrooper who’s sort of ambiguously Lando’s daughter or potential love interest, and Erin Kellyman’s masked Solo character I think— though I may have just assumed the actress is mixed.

I just started watching the Harley Quinn cartoon and I really love their take on Ivy as a level headed person who doesn’t consider herself evil but just really really into botany.

I see enough appeal in how Paquin’s Rogue was more withdrawn, whether through crew fiat and/or acting choices. (She can’t really do anything about the series never evolving the character a bit closer towards the bombastic popular version of the character.)

While I side with those who argue Not Another Teen Movie did She’s All That but better and could have done with more analysis or thought than just the two nods to that version—

I don’t know the specifics but it’s a visual signifier of the cost/decay that goes hand in hand with the ability to bring life and power (also the desiccating and veins trope they also used in Wandavision)? I also wonder if it has to do with the recurring tradition of the virgin, mother, and crone archetypes to see…

I did not know that was a different company from apparently rentboy.com, where the CEO got arrested. But it seemed like a lot of companies go pretty far to protect themselves; even those “missing connection” style blurbs were too much for Craigslist?