So far, I think it’s a good mix of both. The Harfoot and Durin scenes are fun and pretty light, everything with the elves has been serious and gritty.

Beck Bennett leaving is a huge problem for SNL because he's the best straight man that they've got. Like he's a super underrated member of the team. As long as Kyle Mooney stays then that's all that matters. As soon as he leaves then there's shoot no reason to continue watching SNL.

People spent a lot of time wondering about Cecily, Kate, Kenan, Aidy, but Beck leaving SNL is actually a sneaky big loss. He’s essentially been SNL’s glue guy during his tenure. A consistently solid performer that makes every sketch he’s in work. He was in the mold of Phil Hartman/Jason Sudekis where they may not be th…

And, here’s the thing. He did, long before he started guest-hosting.

Here’s the other thing.
We’ve heard now that Richards was involved in selecting which clips got shown to the decision-makers... How involved was he in the focus group process, where “the succession plan started unraveling”? I mean, it sounds like…

I’m genuinely surprised no one has learned from Donald Trump that in any scandal all you have to do is not apologize and wait two weeks because the people online will get bored and start attacking someone else. Fuck, I mean Matt Gaetz trafficked underage girls across state lines and he’s still going about his day. The…

That gets him canceled? Jesus. Really? What ever happened to just saying, “Dude, that was a dick comment. Say sorry and don’t say that shit anymore.”

Even the saintliest folks do and say dumb shit sometimes (and I’m sure Trebek was no exception), it’s just that prior to social media most of the dumb shit you said disappeared into the ether immediately.

Baffling to me that Jennings nixed himself out of the running (and rightfully so, in my opinion) but Richards/Bialik, with all their obvious baggage, were not. Bialik’s trash is out there for the world to see and Richards’ required only a cursory amount of investigative work.

i don’t care who hosts jeopardy, but kids now grow up now with so many social media platforms and are bound to do / say dumb shit on them (see crate challenge and tik tok), and they don’t have a chance.... if everyone is judged on their worst moments not sure how anyone is going to survive the righteous mobs.

Lol but yeah, hire the even worse dingdong with actual lawsuits about sexual harassment 

So one tweet was enough to blacklist Jennings but the swathes of stuff Richards said and did and Bialik said and did were fine?

Anyone deciding to watch this movie as if it’s a documentary of Washington Heights is going to be very confused by all the singing and dancing.

Counter to your counter: So what if it was intentional? It’s his damn show.

Oh, FFS - enough with this bullshit. Yep, go ahead, direct your hate at me, I’m cool with it, and I never reply so type away.

Full minority-in-America cast film with minority-lead-creatives about a mostly-minority neighborhood.

I don’t think that’s even accurate to begin with. But her in a room with three blonde valley girls and she would absolutely stick out.

Wow, that’s really inaccurate. So you are friends with Ms. Barrera and are familiar with her intentionally concealing her heritage to pass as white? White-passing is an activity, not a description. And to know if people who see Ms. Barrera initially believe she is white and not latinx you would have to do a survey.…

It’s hard to say it was fully intentional - In the Heights was his Broadway show, too! - but it was definitely avoidable. 

But in the film, Vanessa is played by white-passing Mexican actor Melissa Barrera.

“But in the film, Vanessa is played by white-passing Mexican actor Melissa Barrera.” I guess there’s some reasonable issue about Hollywood casting people of a certain race as long as they don’t look “TOO Mexican” or whatever, but for some reason this struck me as kind of a criticism of the actress. Given that she…