This sums up my feelings pretty well. I love them building up the relationships and making them more clearly mutual. I love Lan being younger and the most charming member of the ensemble. I really like the hint the last two episodes gave us that the actor playing Rand isn’t, in fact, a massive dud.

I think this might be the result of the law California passed in 2019, voiding confidentiality clauses in sexual harassment suits. 

He isn’t the star, but Hidden Figures was only five years ago (which, at this point, admittedly feels like a lifetime ago). Not sure this in any way disputes the chode point, though.

Yeah, I find myself hoping that Katie is WAY off with this description, because the idea of Lana Wachowski making a reluctant sequel (and making sure we all know she’s making it reluctantly) seems about as pleasant as multiple paper cuts to the tongue.

I get what you’re saying... but no. The obvious metaphor is that going to a movie theater isn’t listening to music on vinyl, it’s going out to a concert. I know it’s not perfect comparison. A movie in a theater is still a recording, it can’t improvise, or chat you up from the stage. Then again, I’ve been to plenty of…

That’s where you’re wrong. Noah maintained his job BECAUSE he had Trump

His ratings were high enough in 2017 (particularly with younger demos) that they extended his contract, and then they signed him to a first-look contract a year later, so it’s not like his version of the show has been a complete fiasco. I’m not a fan, and the lack of a studio audience seemed to hurt his pandemic shows…

Seriously asking: do people outside of America care enough about MLS to call it anything? It seems surprising, since people in America barely seem to notice it.

Your solutions seem to more or less boil down to “people who find the current state of the franchise more objectionable than I do shouldn’t be reviewing it,” which does nobody any favors.

You’re misunderstanding the humor argument. Raimi’s funny, his filmmaking has a lot of humor, and Maguire has good comedic chops for understated and self-deprecating comedy, as shown in those clips. What didn’t work, for the most part, was Spider-Man being funny in his encounters with villains. In the classic comics,…

Season 1 Ward was served a lot better than Rand has been (and this probably applies just as well for Perrin) up to this point. Ward’s personality was pretty vague and generic before the big reveal, but at least he got to do cool action and spy stuff while we waited. Seeing the big “putting things together” scene in…

You’re taking my response to Fiona out of context. Her issue was the cinematic universe aspects of these movies, and while I don’t think that Marvel films are their own genre, studios trying to craft cinematic universes is a widespread enough phenomenon with sufficiently established conventions that it should probably…

She’s in no way responsible for Noth raping her—that’s all on him—but going out on a date (her description, not mine) with someone who you know is married isn’t exactly “nothing wrong.”

As I understand it, the new series is named after the narration that transitions from his death scene, so there’s no way that this wasn’t in the cards all along.

The fact that everyone wound up talking about it, and then Peloton had to issue a statement and an ad about it, all explain why it made sense to bring him back (heck, this new SATC series is basically named for the transition after his death scene). Presumably, they didn’t know about the rape allegations, and thought…

Seeing this article, I realized that I’ve held on to a lot of goodwill toward Vaughn over the years because of X-Men First Class and (to a lesser extent) Layer Cake. And now those two look like outliers because Vaughn’s spent most of his career being Mark Millar’s Dennis Dugan. So the fact that he sounds kind of…

Orbach was a career actor, and until L&O, a real “that guy.” I suspect that getting the role of Briscoe after he’d been in show business for over 35 years (unlike Nimoy, who was roughly the same age as Orbach, but got his signature role in his 30s) gave him a different perspective. If nothing else, it says something…

The first one would probably be corrected to “The 2010 original faced its own...” since the fact that we’re talking about Kick Ass films, for some damn reason, is established in the previous paragraph.

The mirror detail that seems like something out of porn is something that didn’t quite make the translation when Victoria prepped the Cliff’s Notes version of the Hollywood Reporter article: the two women came forward months apart and both said that Noth raped them the same way—similar position, facing a mirror.

It’s not that crazy. The likeliest explanation is that both women contacted one of the handful of prominent lawyers in this field, and that said lawyer has a relationship with Kim Masters and/or the Hollywood Reporter.