Whenever I watch Commando nowadays I can’t stop laughing at the overly aggressive steel drum score. It’s so weird!

I did really like the first season of Evil. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn’t that. (Also: miss U, Asasif Mandvi!) I’m going to wait for the season to end, then buy one month of Paramount+, aka The Mandalorian/Disney+ strategy.

You know there’s Black people in the south, right?

See, the Black creators I follow on TikTok do stuff like make videos about feeding the fish at their marine biology internships, so I was not aware this was a thing.

In the final episode of the original run of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, a few people involved with it seemed to have a kind of a “now what?” emotional response to DeAngelo’s arrest. I was like, now find out who murdered Kathleen Lombardo! That case always seemed solvable; I don’t think I knew it was also a sexual…

Aw, I’ll miss this feature! It was one of my favorites over the years.

I take it you’ve never read his testimony to the PMRC.

This woman being named “Ivory Hecker” just confirms that we’re all living in the Matrix, and the programmers are sadistic bastards.

Yeah, that sums it up for me as well. Like, it was interesting, and it didn’t feel like a re-tread of stuff I’ve already read. But at the end I was kind of like “Well but really was all that?” Not really giving an explanation is an acceptable horror trope, I guess, but I always feel vaguely cheated when it’s employed.

Currently reading a non-fiction book about the history of New Orleans, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette. I live in south Louisiana and frequently spend time in NOLA and I’m fascinated its weird layer cake of history and culture.

Smith’s tales were lurid almost beyond belief, describing graphic acts of murder, cannibalism, and child abuse.

I just finished reading Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ memoir Small Fry, and while I don’t want to come off as gloating about someone dying of cancer, it’s... ironic? that Steve Jobs spent his entire adult life being a “clean food” freak, shaming anyone around him who ate meat or even just vegetables cooked in butter, and yet he…

Fine, then I guess it was just legendary shitshow Dr. Moreau and the fact that no studio was big enough to contain Kilmer’s bloated ego. The Batman movie that barely anyone remembers today was perfect and blameless.

“one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors.”

This really feels like someone got high and came up with a concept, then wrote an essay trying to justify it the next morning after sobering up. Mare of Easttown isn’t going to be an ongoing series. Not solving Erin’s murder would be completely asinine.

That was so fucking weird. It’s not like Fleabag was a sleeper that everyone took a while to come around to. It was a huge, buzzy hit as it was airing. If they’d never covered it, that would be one thing. But they just dropped it like a hot brick?

I actually said “Oh, you FUCKERS” when the episode ended. What was the photo?! I’m leaning to yes Billy is actually the killer, but then what is up with Jess and Dirtbag Dylan? And why does John want to kill him before Billy can confess?? Maybe John is the actual killer and Billy just helped with the clean-up but…

Wait, I have something to look forward to in August? I’m an inhabitant of the Gulf coast, so I’m used to dreading August as the month when the weather stops fucking about and starts actively trying to kill us.

Yeah, my brother has a big “no homo but” crush on Olyphant, too.

Josh Duhamel looks like someone spilled a little Josh Holloway on their Timothy Olyphant.