As someone who has worked with live audiences for nearing on two decades, audiences, including you, rewrite shit all the time. You just think your personal rewrites are valid in a way other peoples’ aren’t, or are unable or unwilling to see or admit that you do. An upset stomach will make you think a good show is…

Thank you for this. It's very difficult to honest discus art that you didn't enjoy while also being respectful to those that did. You threaded that needle beautifully. Great piece!

I like how its big romcom (anti?) subversion is that the main character really does end up with the popular girl, who's perfectly nice, and he and his female best friend are just...best friends who aren't interested in each other romantically.

That would be “The Penis Song”, set to Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy”, which wasn’t in the theatrical release (or many TV airings) due to poor test audience reaction, but was restored for DVD.

That musical number in The Sweetest Thing is uhh fairly musical. 

What, am I the only one that watches Black Mirror? Didn’t see any discomfort when he was kissing a man:

This is a good breakdown. I think I prefer Sam & Bucky as platonic friends because like you say, showing actual healthy male friendships is still rare and them turning out to be in love undermines that, same reason I could understand Steve & Bucky shippers but wasn’t necessarily in favor of it myself (though I think…

I think you bring up a great point! I mean, yes, discussing heists as a “queer narrative” was really just a conversation starting point inspired by Bowen’s old tweets, which he would tell you were not meant to be read any deeper than as a joke (sadly I can’t find them anywhere since Bowen’s no longer on Twitter). But,…

The people need their clam news!

Huh. In one of those wierd moments of synchronicity I found myself, as a long time lover of a good (hell even a mediocre) heist film, wondering only this morning if and how you could make that sort of structure work in audio. I’m a bit skeptical - so much of the pleasure seems to depend on fleeting visual clues,…

Already love you, Lillian. You’re a champion too for adding that link to a source without a paywall. I have never seen anyone at G/O media do that :)

hi, i’m italian, and i live in a place very much like the one in “luca”.

Two young boys whose true nature is revealed when they are splashed with fluids . . . sure, go ahead.  

She’s said the beach setting will be part of a ‘cinematic universe’ and there will be more coming...so I wouldn’t be surprised if we get a darker spin on this setting in future videos.
(One big hint at that is right before the single take cuts, we see the camera pan passed some rubbish on the beach and Lorde quickly…

She was Latina in the “Scoob!” animated movie too, I believe.

Actually, due to the nature of his powers and the Law of Conservation of Energy, Creel can’t technically die. 

I Heart Huckabees is my go-to pro-Wahlberg movie as well. “Struggling lunkhead” nails what is good and why. Wahlberg is at his best when he can be dopey, Ted is another good example and The Departed, probably the one movie where everyone likes him, weaponizes his meathead Boston attitude instead of denying it. But the…

I was reading the Wikipedia page for the film which led to the one for the book it was based on. Apparently it was self-published to start with and the author wrote in the book that if any reader could get it to a studio and made into a film, they’d get 10%.

“It would be nice to have some sort of non-subtextual/contextual acceptance but hey.” Oof, I felt this. Giving food is often how Asian/immigrant families that don’t like to talk about their feelings express love so I get how huge that is coming from your mom, but ideally it wouldn’t be such an awkward thing you have…

“Or sticking with Gaiman stuff, I actually forget whether he opined in public about some of the American Gods drama and creative choices— but a lot of what Bryan Fuller and Michael Green brought to the table were what I enjoyed about the first season.”

It’s never (to the best of my knowledge) been clear but, aside from…