The fact that McHale had the “Chevy Chase” role is an insight I hadn’t heard before. I could see someone with an ego like Chase’s being threatened by the idea that the show had a Handsome, Sarcastic Guy role, and that someone else was playing it. And physically fighting with someone 30 years younger than you…

It was almost 8 pm.  That’s a perfectly good time to sit back and relax while robed.

The last time you used the word “narcissist,” you were getting outraged about the shrimp tower guy Josh Brolin played on SNL. When describing Trump, and not a goofy character on an SNL sketch where shrimp are described as “the thinking man’s mozzarella stick,” it’s accurate.

Your comment about “lesbian True Romance” made me laugh about this:

Can you imagine The Morning Show’s sermonizing about sexism smacking up against Sorkin’s sermonizing about how killjoys are destroying our ability to publicly admire a co-worker’s nice caboose?

The first sentence of every AV Club article that involved Stone, forever, would start like this:

No place like the present.

All places are good places to do that. Tell strangers on the street.

You’re definitely entitled to your opinion. I think Goodfellas is the one where there might be a broader consensus that the Academy fucked up though.  That doesn’t make you wrong, of course.

I’m getting more of a Drive or A History of Violence vibe, which would put it right in my wheelhouse.

Pretty striking to see Barsanti bending over backwards to defend Moore here. His comments, Barsanti assures us, are “not the biggest deal in the grand scheme of things” and “not exactly a national emergency,” and the people criticizing him online should just be “just watching the Oscars in peace and making snide…

When you cast Kristen Stewart, you get the sullen skulking for free.

I mean, it was funny.  Kimmel’s a comedian, not a political consultant, so there doesn’t need to be any justification beyond that.

Yeah, I think the situation is actually that the Academy likes Scorsese a lot, but that his movies (while often very good) have not necessarily been the best movie in a lot of years. Like, Goodfellas probably should have beaten Dances With Wolves in 1990. But most of the time, there’s been a strong case that the…

People went up on stage, opened envelopes, and said Oppenheimer’s name a bunch, after which people who worked on Oppenheimer ascended the stage, got gold trophies, and said some stuff. That never happened with Killers of the Flower Moon.

You’re right.  The commenter clearly was saying that Stone has never done wrong in her entire life, and is the Messiah.

Or you could just think that Stone gave amazing, difficult performance in both a TV show and a movie this year, and so it’s nice she won an award.

I think the most interesting part of the movie was having such a passive protagonist. At least some of the runtime is justified, I think, by the need to give us enough time with Ernest to really draw out behavior that would otherwise suggest wild character shifts. One some level, he seems to truly care about Mollie.…

Yeah. If there’s anything the Oscars don’t need, it’s more solemnity about how important what they’re all doing is. Killers of the Flower Moon was one of the major movies nominated this year, and a joke about its length is about the mildest possible joke anyone could make about it.