It’s fascinating to realize The Simpsons has been on long enough for this quote to now have a completely different context. 

I used to watch the whole ceremony because I was interested in what kind of moments you might get (like speeches and reactions), but have lost most of my interest. I think it started for me when I got one too many patronizing George Clooney speeches. 

Things are too polarized now for most people to tune into the Oscars just because of a movie, especially when only a handful of films even do well at the box office. 

It does look very powerful - TV movie isn’t a knock, per se, just the subject matter is something which reminds me more of that era and less of what headlines as many major films. But it’s always good for movies to try new themes, especially when we are drowning in a sea of biopics. 

Oh yeah I got that gist from the reviews. It seems like something that would have been a TV-movie 30 years ago if the genre was not dead. 

It’s self-important horse shit that pretends to say something while saying nothing at all...similar to McKay’s last Oscar bait film, Vice. Baiting works. I’m just glad it didn’t get any acting nods...

Not as bad as I had expected, due to avoiding the Leto nomination and having a few less “just because” nominations than I had expected. It’s too bad that Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem got in (the only award I could give Kidman is Best Stephnie Weir impression, and even that I would question). Kidman seems likely to…

The Tommy and Tuppence books were my favorite Christies - I know they are seen as poor by some, but I appreciate getting to see them age and you can feel her fondness for the characters (a fondness not there  in some of the offputting later adaptations of them). Postern of Fate is a very odd book, and a sad one, but…

If it makes you feel any better, I’ve seen a lot of positive reviews as well.

I have to admit that I have a soft spot for some of her meandering books that get a pasting, although the worst of those come near the end of her career (Elephants Can Remember is particularly haunting to read as she seems to use a version of herself to work through a lot of things).

I  have no  interest in watching this shit, but I salute all of your efforts at covering a show that is so not worth your talents. The show is a zombie no one cared about putting out of its misery.

It’s a double-edged sword because there’s a very vocal subset who insist these people are the show and should stay forever. Several recaps this season would all but say that the show just was not good without Kate there (I stopped reading those as a result).

This is only the fourth PDD pre-tape to make an episode, and their first since November. The others were just put on Youtube. Some of the sketches they write but don’t appear in get picked, but not the last few weeks.

Thanks. Love seeing this again. So much more fun than anything TV was giving him by this point. RIP Howard. 

I think his Trump is fine, much better than Baldwin’s - I just don’t want to see any Trump impression. His Biden has the same problem as any Biden I’ve seen in recent years - there’s just nothing to work with comedy-wise. The most you tend to see is someone doing a whispery voice and trying to marvel on weird…

I tend to agree. Not a big fan.

They’ve been awful for 20 years or so. Sad to say I thought this was still one of the better cold opens of this season because at least one or two small moments worked for me...

If they’d done a Lighthouse sketch it likely would have just been Kate or Pete making faces for 7 minutes.

Interestingly, this season, especially the first half, is one where various longtime cast absences and bringing in new people actually did enliven the show for me and some others. When Kate returned, so did many of those woes, but still, it’s felt much more like a turnover season than the last 2 or 3. 

The whole selling point for the show with people seems to be that it isn’t “cool” - many of these think pieces revolve around how if you watch Succession and don’t watch Yellowstone, you are an out of touch liberal who needs to find God (in so many words). The funny part is that when I went to look at some of the fan…