If that’s what it was going to be. GoT fell away from its critique of medieval storytelling and power structures to instead focus on tits, gore and melodrama pretty damn quick. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that in the abstract. But to have the two white dudes who pointedly never focused on “the small folk” turn to…

This is the big one. The first film is such a canny satire of workaday, uh, work, where the biggest problems for our protagonists aren’t really the ghosts, but paying rent, hiring/training new workers, being seen as respectable, and interacting with the bureaucracies of NYC and the federal government. Every followup…

Even further, she’s likely on several experimental medicines that, even with insurance, costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and following likely similar costs from her previous cancer treatments. Even if the new show were staffed fully by her harassers or work she doesn’t really care for, needing the money is…

Except it’s utterly clear he’s describing the in-film world accurately, not his hatred of it. Gerwig herself described the first 30 minutes as a dystopia, does that mean she also hated her own film, or was just describing it?

Yeah, you can not like the guy, but if you wanna make assholes love him, preemptively act like he’s their patron saint. Nothing engages the right in this country like the pretense of their own oppression, and essentially saying “This darling of the right doesn’t deserve a job!” is a great way to turn him *into* a…

No one was calling for his death. The reviewer didn’t like the episode or the host. Happens. People have been disagreeing with the AVclub reviews of SNL for close to a decade now, but now it’s special when a putatively canceled comedian is the one getting the wrong opinion? Let me reverse the self-victimization: when…

Nope, Gilliam’s involved: “rumor of film for 7 years, dailies leaked from failed production in 11"

He also is the one who moved the embassy to Jerusalem, enflaming the tensions that helped lead to October 7th. 

Sure. One moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem and antagonized the entirety of Islam, helping enflame the tensions already in the region and giving an explicit thumbs up to Israel’s colonialist impulses, the other sits in the same shitty place that every President save maybe Jimmy Carter has sat in since 1945.

*gently, like Danny Tanner giving fatherly advice on Full House* Tim... *begin “lesson” music* you also comment on articles about YouTube videos on the internet. *warm smile* So it’s likely at least one of those is a lie. But that’s ok! We’re all losers here. Now, here *hands them a Mountain Dew Code Red*, wipe your…

Set to Eric Prydz' Call On Me.

It actually felt really Curb-y, not in its supposed offensiveness, but in how hilariously terrible Larry David is at performing anything but himself, and that includes stage fighting a Muppet.

It’s true, but he’s also from a generation that didn’t see political divisions as as, well, divisive as we see them now. No one had a problem with Rudy Giuliani being on the show until the 2010s. John McCain showed up a couple times. Sarah Palin once. Ed Koch was a semi-regular cameo.

He is probably at the same…

He’s a self-satisfied elitist with notable bigotries that he thinks aren’t bigotries because he thinks they’re backed by “logic”, as opposed to the “emotional” response of his detractors to his bigotries. An unreasonable ass calling everyone else unreasonable asses, this aligns him in the minds of many with the…

The funny thing is, for a moment, I didn’t know whether you were talking about Maher or West.

I’m “using” Carl Weathers’ death to promote recognition of the person who actually did the interview with Carl Weathers linked in the above article, and who is notably no longer with the AVClub because the AVClub became what it is. So, the “classy” move here was the AVClub saying “us” to reference writers that were…

I think it is absolutely important to raise up Will Harris for that interview done by “us” in 2014, and post his current website, and raise up his book on the making of Airplane! which was released last year. Here y’all go: https://willharris.substack.com/p/2023-my-year-in-review

The “huh” is warranted, even if your summary of the summary is, in fact, completely lucid and true in this case.

Neither are comedians a protected class, even those you think “tell it like it is”. So, fuck that guy.

Speaking of AI-generated.

Now I wonder if the removal of profile icons is less to do with rights or storage space, and more to do with making it it easier for new-created bullshit accounts to blend in with actual commenters.