We’ve vaccinated half the human population and we aren’t seeing serious side-effects*.

I don't know what about standing on a cold beach frowning at a woman who is also frowning doesn't just ooze charisma for you.

Just like a real monarchy!

Their deal isn’t with HBO anymore. I think they’re adapting “The Three Body Problem” for Netflix.

The premise would have to be stupider, “What if marrying someone who WASN’T more related to you than a first cousin was the thing that was illegal?”

You very well might be.

You’re being overly dramatic. DoD is fairly self-contained, has an actual ending, and besides the obvious and banal, doesn’t really tie into the first show at all.

That was a beautiful Radiohead cover, and by listening to it at the end I just found out Charlie Jane Anders (old io9 founding editor, author, etc.) was in the writers room, which is cool too.

Ted’s reading of Sharon’s note had me in tears, I thought that was really powerful from Sudeikis.

No. James Gunn lost his job because conservatives were butthurt over Roseanne losing her job and caused a stink. Even though there’s a massive difference between comparing a Black woman to a character from Planet of the Apes when you’re the star of a Disney owned sitcom and making sick jokes a decade before you were…

I’m calling this gutpunch theory the Ted Wedding.

Look, I loathe what Nate is turning into, but I’ve gotta give it up to Nick Mohammed for selling it so fucking well. In the hands of another actor, I could see it happening with a shit-ton of mustache-twirling or cartoonishness. But the thing is, I think we as viewers see Nate heading down this path, being consumed by…

As someone deeply broken when it comes to expectations of verisimilitude, my general rule on this is that it’s fine not to be entirely realistic as long as the streamlining of reality makes the story more effective.

You’re right that Nate’s story has other dimensions, but to me his reaction to the social media conversation is a byproduct of the toxic masculinity he’s allowed to drive his worldview. Allowing a single tweet—we haven’t seen him check social media since—to trigger something like his attack on Will does certainly…

Ted’s reading of Sharon’s note had me in tears, I thought that was really powerful from Sudeikis. I also wonder if we will have an payoff on the suggestion of Sharon’s possible drinking problem.

I actually found the stories in this episode to work quite well, at least in isolation. Because even in re-watching season two, there are a lot of things that aren’t unmotivated or unfounded, but they are often missing connective tissue. Yet, I was still swept up in each character thread as it unfolded, rather than…

I’m sure the author of this piece, plus everyone in the comments and everyone on Twitter, would have totally put this powerful industry mogul in his place if they had been in Sorkin’s position.

I have a Star Wars and Disney fanboy for a husband. He’s not insane about it, but this is 10000% up his alley. We do take other vacations! But we’ve had multiple at Disney World. And he loved the fuck outta Galaxy’s Edge.

White Lotus sort of did that by introducing Lani as the “good-hearted new girl audience surrogate to whom everything is explained” and then suddenly removing her from the cast during the first episode, and we’re left behind with all these complicated delightfully fucked-up characters.

Disagree here from an international perspective. It’s much more entertaining when things are going to shit in America as a consequence of your actions. When you actually elect sane people, political comedy goes to shit. The Obama era was death to political comedy just as much as the Tr*mp era was death to satire.