No yeah, I am also just stating my opinion that I think it’s great and that someone’s opinion that it is bad is bad.

A take is an opinion. It was hot because it was controversial.

Hot take.

I did, mixed up the name of the album with the single. I blame having just written about Big Thief. I think Young Enough is leaps and bounds better than Guppy, which I liked but thought was a bit repetitive. Young Enough just has a deeper and more versatile sound, and is lyrically much more developed. Granted, the…

I think that this is a fine list and have no direct complaints because lists are subjective and meaningless.

What lists have you been looking at? I thought everyone included Blackstar.

I like Father of the Bride, but Modern Vampires was definitely the right choice. I would take Contra over FotB, too.

I admit that it hasn’t aged especially well (Franco is a creep) and is a bit full of itself, but I absolutely loved it when it came out and still think the character arc in it is effective, even if it is a bit on the nose. 

Not trying to debate the merits of the movie here, but, I enjoyed it and would put it on my list.

Other picks:

Honestly, that run looked more like a “Bobby just told me he needs to go to the bathroom and was embarrassed to tell me” kind of run.

Yeah, the Marvin Gaye precedent is terrible, but the intros to those songs are very similar. The “you all know what it is” at the beginnings are just odd. 

Surprised by how divisive the album’s been and glad I was able to listen to it before all the hot takes. I love it. It’s definitely a bit long and poppier than anything Chance has done before, but I think it’s an excellently produced, joyous album. I don’t know how I would rank it with his other releases, but I’m not…

I second the mentions of Friday Night Lights, Hannibal, and Breaking Bad. I also nominate Slings and Arrows, a show that started out great and got even better as it went on. Its ending was absolutely perfect; I cannot think of another TV show ending that brought me so many tears. I’ll also throw Avatar: The Last…

Just listened through the new Chance the Rapper album. I like it a lot. 

The Last Airbender came out on the tail-end of my young childhood (I think I was 11 when I first started watching it), but I am so grateful that it did. A genuinely perfect show, and definitely the only kids show I watched as a child that I can still go back to.

It is interesting though that the two most prominent cases (that I can think of, at least) of non-white actors being cast as originally white characters are both redheads. Is redhead already seen as enough of a minority to Hollywood that the shift from redhead to black isn’t a big one to them?

Counterpoint: I saw the show live and liked it quite a bit.

“It’s too weird of a story to be made up. There’s so many specifics. He sprained his ankle, she had a hearing aid...”

Yeah, I can imagine Pattison being able to get the angsty side of Batman without coming across as whiny. Nicolas Hoult, on the other hand...