Let’s say he did everything he’s accused of. He emotionally abused someone and raped someone else. These are bad things! But are they so bad the person has to be thrown away forever with no chance of rehabilitation?

Trump would be lucky to be fucking someone like Armie Hammer.

Also I don’t know if his kink was “inappropriate,” exactly. “Inappropriate” kink is, like, stuff to do with kids or kid imagery or animals. Other kink is just kink. It’s all “inappropriate.” If it was appropriate it would be regular sex.

Yes, kink without consent is inappropriate.

idk if it’s so much gullible weirdos as people who don’t really care half paying attention and moving on with their lives. not everyone spends 7 hours a day on  entertainment websites like us.

I don’t know. The press about it at the time was legit ARMIE HAMMER IS A CANNIBAL. I had to actually look to find that they were just talking about some sex talk, and the way all the articles were written were definitely done in a way to obfuscate that it was just talk and not action. Combine that with vague talk of…

Yeah, rehabilitation is bad! Once people admit to doing bad things, they should never do anything again! They should just become online accountants, and never leave their homes, ever!

The fact that this movie relies heavily on the theme of nostalgia when that’s already a saturated media topic was actually a deliberate choice on Jane Schoenbrun’s part.

I was too old for Pete and Pete and have never watched it. Would I find it hopelessly childish today?

This. It seems really difficult for some people to wrap their heads around how creatives love what they do so much, many are just happy to be able to do it at all, much less be compensated for it, and how that can push artists to undervalue their skills and talent. It’s easy to say all these years later, “wElL yOu…

that unique feeling of feeling like a passive observer in your own life (while not to take away from the fact it is overtly a trans metaphor in this movie) is handled so well i think anyone who’s ever experienced it at all can relate.

He’s not. He was perfectly lovely when the AV Club threw the first ever Pete and Pete reunion, and he remains kind and lovely to this day.

For those reasons The Pink Opaque reminded me of Ghostwriter, especially as that was probably one of the first “scary” shows I watched (the slime monster story legit messed eight year old me up), but through the eyes of an adult I just see low-rent camp.

glib cynicism covering ignorance of a topic with “been there done that” world-weariness? Wow, how different from every internet comment.

Yes!

It’s not really about the 90's in that way. The TV fetishism is definitely for CRTs, and his adulthood is represented by getting a flatscreen delivered to his house, but it’s not really about the 90's as much as it is set in the 90's. It’s just using the era as a metaphor, rather than mining nostalgia for it.

The Freshman by The Verve Pipe
Rise by Rainer Maria

A song - any song - off Weezer’s blue album.

Dire Straits - “Money for Nothing” - you can replace the slur in the second verse with “douchbag” and it works just fine.

Dry the Rain by the Beta Band