“It’s not even that Birdy was yelling that, but rather that she will go to any lengths to protect Alice”

They totally were. SO MANY guys think they have a magic dick. Or a magic duck, which is what I typed first, and which is honestly more likely to appeal to a lesbian.

It really feels like the new owner is just leaning as hard as he can into the “meme” of the clown hotel and trying to make it economically viable purely off the kitsch/spooky factor.

I replayed a scene after the episode was finished and that was the “On your feet and walk, in the name of Jesus” scene. If you can, give it another watch. Every extra is giving it their all, the religious pandemonium, the staging of getting that guy up out of his wheelchair and the congregation’s arms outstretched,…

We barely made it through the first episode. The contestants are annoying enough on their own, but the VO is paaaaainful. Not funny, shrill as hell, and too much of it. You have to imagine producers watching the first cut thinking “...oof. Well. It is what it is!” Then again, looking at that most-popular-on-Netflix…

Verbatim convo between me and my husband (not from ‘round these parts):

Matthew Rhys was on Fresh Air yesterday. Great interview.

He was PERFECT in Dexter’s 4th Season, which remains one of high-watermark for portraying such a horrific villain of any mediums.

This is a rare situation where people would do better watching Marvel films than Scorcese films, because de-aging works really well in Captain Marvel, and seeing it would give Miller a good idea of why the de-aging in The Irishman is so bad. The only scenes where de-aging Samuel Jackson doesn’t work in Captain Marvel…

Mel Gibson *and* Emile Hirsch? I assume they also tried to get Kevin Spacey but he just wasn’t available?

“Boy’s imaginary friend turns out to be the ghost of an assassinated anti-war activist... But neither he nor his parents speak Greek.”

Oh look. It’s some bad faith horseshit.

She’s wearing her Aunt Lydia finest, so that’s exactly how I expected her to look.  Blessed be the fruit.

“The AV Club wouldn’t be deliberately misleading us, would they?”

I guess it would have been too rough to use “That Little Asshole Is Done” as the headline, but I expect Conway would have approved.

Also of note - he got his start on local TV in Cleveland with a guy called Ghoulardi, played by Ernie Anderson, who went on to be the voice of ABC and the Love Boat, and father to Paul Thomas Anderson.

A lot of attendees confused the outrageous or the surreal for Camp.

Has the term “fridging” evolved like “literally” has? Because my understanding was that it meant when a female character was written only to die, in order to spur a male character to action. If “fridging” now means when any female character dies regardless of context, or when any prominent female character dies in a…

“can basically invent anything out of thin air now.”