Our middle/ high school hack was to take the basic chicken patty and add shit from the salad bar- spinach, cucumber, bacon, cheese, etc to make a full sandwich. Or, we’d ask for just the patty, make a salad, and cut up the patty as additonal protein.

By and large it doesn’t, because The Crown- while including certain historical events- is a character drama surrounding Elizabeth II and her immediate personal orbit. The purpose of the show isn’t self-flagellation over the perceived and real sins of the monarchy and its legacy.

That's really it. While error and shrink are probabilities, a 30k POS system with maybe 5k maintenance over a year is a hell of a lot cheaper than a body pulling 40k plus another 40% in benefit load- especially when that body is more likely to be unreliable and a constant attrition risk.

The thinkpieces aren’t even original at this point- it’s an endless recycling of Tumblr talking points from 2010. Medieval property designed to appeal to audience x does so? Quel Suprise!

I wouldn’t mind that if they at least lasted the entire season. It’s another function of aging up and de-aging the characters- Rhaenrya starts the events of the show at age 8 and Allicent is 18 - they weren’t really friends, and Viserys was only 29. But, Laena was still 12 when her marriage was proposed, and I believe…

People legit are either unwilling or unable to reconcile that a metric shitton of Black people are socially and religiously conservative. The ONLY reason they vote Democrat or don’t vote at all is because the GOP hasn’t found a way divorce their racism from their policies.

Kenneth Branaugh swings for the fences, and even when he goes into left field, there’s always something redeeming and coherent in his work (whatever, I thought Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was well cast, but needed finese on the pacing and score).

The White Worm refers to Mysaria. Just like the masters after her, she has agents of “little bird” children in King’s Landing, but the title is more confusing here because in the book, she is so deathly pale that not even blood of Valyria would compare.

Sweaty, you clearly missed the part in the linked story where she has been pro choice for the past decade since suffering a miscarriage- she actively lobbied AGAINST the Texas law. If anything, she probably picketed a crisis pregnancy center. But hey, it's much more fun to come to the comments without the full story…

The one change I actually quite liked was Kevin Kline as Maurice. Maurice was written as comic relief and Don Hahn specifically called out that “hit on the head, underwear shot and pants on fire” was the formula for Maurice and LeFou. Changing him into this competent, sensitive clock maker added a sweet dynamic to his…

Surprised to see Beauty and the Beast so high: The changes made to the plot are either superfluous, confusing, or completely change the character journey, Emma Watson can’t sing, and the actors who CAN (ie Audra McDonald) don’t get a lot of screen time. Kevin Kline was wonderful, though and Maurice was probably the…

Why, oh why do they need six seasons? June’s story is nearly over at this point, and The Testaments covers the details that really matter in regards to Gilead, the characters we know, and some of whom we haven’t met in full yet.

“genuinely competent writer”

No no no you see it’s DIFFERENT here because freedum.

It’s not worth it to engage. Black Twitter needs to have their Special Moment regarding a dead woman with little governing power who was given a role she never wanted. Gotta get all those hot takes out the door!

So the woman that was the pair of tits in Blurred Lines and that was the pair of tits in Gone Girl has finally figured out that men commodify women?

That’s where I sit with the Bezos crew and the review pause. Not for nothing, but if folks were going to review bomb because of casting, it would have happened before the deluge of negative reviews, and folks were indeed being awful over the internet well before the show premiered. It’s a gorgeous show, the cast are…

Not only that, but the elves we do have descriptions on are almost universally described as “fair” or “fair of complexion”- it’s the hair and eye colors that differentiate them: Only Vanyar and members of houses with Vanyar descent have golden hair and silver hair is unique to the ruling Teleri, etc.

io9 does a pretty good job; Rob knows the source material and they clear the bar of accurately summarizing the plot. Low bar, I know. I don't know why AV Club doesn't just cross post that review in lieu of trying to generate their own.

It would be one thing if the critique was from a different, banal perspective of “titties and dragons”... Jenna’s reviews are just plain inaccurate. She consistently misses obvious foreshadowing/ motif and can barely accurately summarize the plot- making it difficult to judge the review as a review instead of a stream…