it’s not clear to us whether Herzog is offering a qualitative assessment of Gerwig’s movie, or genuinely speaking to its neon pink depiction of Barbieland, a world in which ostensibly happy “people” play out basic routines with no capacity for understanding any of the ennui or despair clawing at the edges of…

I haven’t watched this new season yet (definitely planning to), but holy hell is the reddit sub for TD a total shitshow since this season debuted. It’s just full of people falling over themselves to fellate Pizzolatto and shit on the new season (and yeah, there are quite a few dog whistles about “wokeness” and “DEI”…

I can’t help wondering if there is some misogyny in this and a lot of other criticisms of the season. Honestly, it may be my favorite season of the show. 

The people I know who are watching S4 don’t even know the creative team changed, they just know it got good again after 2 seasons they didn’t like. I tell them it’s a new creative team and they’re super surprised.

100% I bet this one wasn’t bullshit, tho.

I agree with your general point but your understanding of sampling in hip hop makes you sound like a boomer who posts Minion memes on Facebook.

Sure, but I can understand someone underestimating what that level of scrutiny actually feels like. Especially someone like Kumail Nanjiani: a man in his 40's whose career was mostly comedy prior to this point.

She wasn’t fired, though. Her contract was up & they didn’t renew it.

shhh i wanna see him have to hire back those twitter employees he fired for criticizing him

I look forward to these people someday realizing that freedom of speech does not actually mean freedom from consequence when you’re talking about a private corporation/entity/employer. Yes, Gina and Elon, you can say whatever the hell you want. But you can still face the repercussions. 

We’re just innocent bystanders. Univision (back when it was still named Univision) buying a majority share in Onion, Inc. was the beginning of a long, slow slide into mediocrity. Univision bought up The Onion sites and the Gawker sites thinking they’d use them to make content for their short-lived English language…

Was the show better than usual? Yes. Were there ads literally popping up over each other while I tried to read this AVC recap? Also yes, and goddamn, what did we all do to deserve that?

Best host so far this season and i don't think anyone will be able to top her. She should come back to host every season.

Ah, but now you’re running into the “determined by innate and immutable biological and genetic characteristics” definition from the letter.

Because cruelty is the point and their base eats it up. As long as there’s someone else to punch down upon, they don’t have to confront the reality of being the lowest and stupidest of human trash who deserve their place at the bottom of the social scale.

Maybe you should read the linked article (not just the title) before stating that someone is misquoting it. Literally the third sentence:

I just fucking can’t, with these culture-war fuckwads. Why is it so goddamn hard to treat people with even the shred of basic decency?

To her credit, uninteresting and banal is leagues ahead of “try too hard, be skin-crawling levels of obnoxious, and show very obviously that you have faced zero consequences in your life,” which most Twitch streamers exhibit.

This person is the poster child of all the inherently uninteresting, banal ‘influencers’ that somehow became mystifyingly famous in the past 10+ years. I’ve heard her talk, watched a stream- and to this day her appeal still escapes me.