Not that it’s wrong to boycott or not want anything to do with Fantastic Beasts because of Rowling or Depp’s involvement, but even if those didn’t exist, the series would probably still be in box office limbo. At its core you built a series around a muttery, wormy, utterly unlikeable protagonist named Newt. Each new…

He’s made his bones off reality tv, which is completely different than scripted entertainment. He completely misses that point and thinks it’s just “product” to push. It’s why I hated Zucker so much when he had the reins at NBC and he wanted more shit like the apprentice and less The Office, then in the full glory of…

Oh definitely. We had one we could walk to from our duplex and that was a weekly ritual that I think back happily on. Even so, I do find myself seeing that blue and yellow pattern in the background up there and sighing wistfully. 

As a veteran of many layoffs myself this is pretty dead on. (Especially the Fuck Elon to Mars part!) And when there’s successive waves of increasingly worse layoffs, by the time you do get That Call it’s almost a relief.

It’s funny to see the nostalgia for Blockbuster—even I’m guilty of it!—when at the time Blockbuster was huge THEY were the big bad guy for running the little Mom and Pop video stores out of business.

This is surprising and sad. She had this very open, approachable style of writing that made you feel like a friend. A few weeks ago I was wondering what happened to her after her second book controversy, found her twitter, and fell down the rabbit hole all over again; her writing hadn’t missed a beat. RIP.

Sounds like somebody needs to watch Nestor The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey, which ups the sadistic abuse of our mutant protagonist tenfold!

I don’t understand this resolution at all. The owner went nuclear on Corden and called him out publicly, so Corden looks bad (continues to!). But then all it takes is Corden to say “I’m sowwy” and apparently abusive behavior to the staff is forgiven? Why would you want that back? Does Corden have that many devoted…

Yes! They also have an attorney and a notary at each screening for each audience member to sign an affidavit saying that neither they nor their family can sue the makers of the film for any illness, injury or . . . . DEATH that may happen watching this motion picture!

Let’s face it: almost every line he has in TESB is killer.

You can’t really be blamed. At the time S60 was considered THE sure bet of the fall season, and 30 Rock was a fine enough show, too bad it premiered when it did, it’ll be gone by Christmas . . .

To be clear, I don’t want that to happen. Just given what we’ve seen of the quality of Zaslav’s decisions so far, it’s the laziest and worst course of action, so probably that’s going to be it. 

Get this over with and back the dump truck full of money up to Snyder’s house already.

Postscript: I looked it up:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwic5rrqufP5AhVsl2oFHUdNCAgQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Lord_of_the_Rings%3A_Journey_to_Rivendell&usg=AOvVaw12acPWccZsau6GLn5EcNV_

Right before the Atari 2600 went under, there was a, I dunno, graphics extender? created for it. I’m blanking on the name, but it was basically a double-length cartridge you inserted, and then the end of the cartridge would connect by a cable to a tape recorder, and the “games” were cassettes that they sold. They only…

I want to say this is an idea they’ve been kicking around since Zucker was in charge. The whole Leno debacle was them dipping their toes in those waters. Always great to see a network hostile to its own content! 

“We knew, going in, that we were in a very challenging situation with having Vader be in the show. There was a real struggle there to tell that story, because A New Hope makes it seem like they hadn’t seen each other since the fall of the Republic. But then we realized lightsaber fights are really cool and said fuck…

Are we sure that picture up top isn’t Sacha Baron Cohen in disguise?

“Having recently gone through a time of intense crisis, I now understand that I am suffering complex mental health issues and have begun ongoing treatment. I want to apologize to everyone that I have alarmed and upset. especially our shareholders. I am committed to doing the necessary work to get The Flash out as…

Exactly. What an astoundingly myopic decision, and to think there’d be no repercussions from it. This has basically been THE entertainment story for like four weeks running now. I don’t know why shareholders aren’t howling for his head yet.