Yeah, if I recall correctly, it's kinda like 'He gets accepted into the school… well enough of that, in his final year he…'

That is pretty much every review I have read of it, which kinda put me off trying it. Apparently some of it lands better if you have a knowledge of contemporary German culture and politics, though.

I assumed that the recycled jokes were a deliberate joke about sequels.

I'd have loved for Sue Perkins to be co-host, but I suppose the death threats have put paid to that possibility.

I think that Jarhead is probably the closest mainstream example.

The Damned would be a pretty good choice, being more or less contemporaries as well as Lemmy actually performing with them a few times.

Angela Lansbury as well.

Is Al Cody supposed to be pathetic? I didn't think he was being portrayed that way at all.

"Where's his scrotum, Llewyn? Where's his scrotum?!"

Yeah, there's also the problem that there are newer comedians who are alternative to the now-establishment alternative comics of yesteryear, so the term becomes quite confusing.

I think 'alternative comedy' in Britain was a term that was applied to practically any younger, hipper comedian in the 80s to set them apart from the often rather racist and sexist popular comedians. Also, usually instead of just a run of punchlines they were more creative with the form.

On a similar note, I'm also annoyed at the common perception of Wuthering Heights as a romance that celebrates Heathcliff and Cathy's relationship

You do understand what a 'metaphor' is, right?

Wait, wasn't that already a movie? I'm sure that that already exists.

Springsteen, but the live version.

99% Invisible has a similar set-up, and Roman Mars' voice is incredibly relaxing…

Fuckabees!

The reason was that she requested the part - in a interview she said that she had just done 12 years a Slave where there was a lot of focus on her body and that which was done to it and she felt kind of exhausted and wanted to do a role where her body was irrelevant.

Yeah - Eliot literally turns to the camera and says 'But you already knew that, didn't you?' I don't think it was meant to be a mind-blowing twist.

It's a film about toxic masculinity, so it's at least feminist-adjacent.