My fiance and I watched the series’ first episode and immediately decided that we weren’t sitting through 12 more hours, but we wanted to be up to speed for The Defenders (sigh, the hype was real) so we decided to watch the finale before we called it quits

I like your take, but at the same time there’s something to be said for the fact that the bleached skin makes him unable to “take off” the Joker persona. Jack Nicholson having to put makeup on to look human was another cool level to it

That’s not a Twitter mob, that’s the audience (the same one the advertisers are paying for access to). The cultural landscape has definitely shifted, but not being willing or able to shift with it just means Buruma was no longer qualified for the job he had

I feel like it had all the elements of a creepy, idiosyncratic action movie, but it the editing really dragged it down into being less than the sum of its parts. There’s literally a scene where Rachel Weiss tries to convince him she’s being haunted and he doesn’t believe her, followed immediately by a scene where he…

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But wait, I thought Trump signed his businesses over to his sons because they weren’t involved in politics? It’s almost as if there’s literally no other function DoJu can serve besides shitposting political memes to people who tell him he’s great

This is always the biggest red flag, they’re probing the people around them for buy-in before they start in on the shit they really think.

Ethically, he’s in the clear because he didn’t violate the agreement or misrepresent himself. Morally, this is a shitty thing to do to a small business and to future customers who aren’t going to have the option available because guys like this exist

My understanding is, it’s secure as long as you have your unique password. But, just speculating here, if that password is easily viewable on a computer that got hacked and the hacker knew what the password was for, you’d be SOL

I saw this on Vulture yesterday, and posted immediately next to it was an article including Dylan and Ronan Farrow’s responses. This morning, they already pushed the interview to “features” but kept the response article front an center. I have a feeling publishing this was not a unanimous decision over there

That sucks, but considering at that frog I can’t really make myself feel too bad about this

I agree, but then I realize that their last 3-5 movies stand among the best work they’ve done. Losing Gunn sucks,* but that decision was made by Alan Horn, not Marvel Studios. Hopefully how poorly the debacle went down will discourage similar meddling in the future

Goddamn it GQ, first my sperm and now my teeth? What am I going to find out I’m eventually going lose tomorrow? Could they maybe arrange for someone to come to my house and tell me I’m getting old and there’s nothing I can do about it? Or is that something that only comes with a subscription?

“Lodestar,” you say...

Marvel is run by people who have no idea what appeals to the audiences they’ve been playing to for decades. They haven’t changed, but that audience has gotten smaller and meaner. They can admit they don’t know what the new audience wants and bring in new people (at the expense of their own professional power), or they…

If those fans are children, who haven’t developed the emotional sophistication to tell the difference between a celebrity crush and an actual bond with another person, it probably does make a difference. It’s not a healthy phenomena to indulge, but there’s definitely a lot of money to be made and the basic playbook…

Real talk: there have to be several people or factions at Warner Brothers who have different THR and Deadline reporters’s numbers, and they constantly leak shit to test the waters or weaken their internal opposition. Combined with Warner’s inclination to fire people many months before it’s announced they’ve left the…

I blame 9/11. Huge event during formative years, push towards nationalism, racism/religious discrimination was tolerated a lot more, intense fear that was basically unmanaged, displays of aggression went basically unchallenged, and stupid, man-centric pop culture all of a sudden became “why they hate us” and thus an…

Seriously. Whenever people talk about how they like PMT but consider themselves above the rest of the site, all I can think of are the people who listen to Ben Shapiro but think Brietbart is lowbrow

Or the very real chance that two people who have been married for a long time have views on what does and doesn’t constitute harassment and assault that are closer to each other than to the mainstream. Marriages can have so many different dynamics, the exact course of events you describe could occur for quite a few…