I’d say Richard Nixon and the Catholic Church were major figures in their industry.

I see your point, but the major difference here is that this particular expose is about a major figure in their own industry, featuring the involvement of several people who worked with that figure. That’s gonna carry some baggage the other movies didn’t just by default.

Yeah, normally I complain when show bury the queerness of their characters but like... these are all teenagers in the 80s who grew up in a small Midwestern town. Burying their queerness was somewhere between the result of socially engineered terror and a calculated survival tactic. Will hasn’t come out and said it…

I’m critical of it being all heavy subtext and allusions over the course of the season. I don’t have faith in their ability to write a gay character.

this show has taken 3 seasons and essentially 9 movies to get to…only this point with Will?

I wonder why there’s no consensus on pronunciation?

a lot of the worst choices seem like purposeful call backs to the show

Rob Zombie

Man

I know you’re capable of making films that look professional

Fuck off.

Taika Waititi’s hardly a stranger to dark themes being treated with a weirdly light touch, this is just his most notable fumbling of the approach.

The reason he’s not able to do that is because he isn’t LGBT+, he has no interest in it as a concept or a community beyond his own straight perspective on it, and he’s so used to approaching topics like this from a position of experience (since his primary focus has been race) that he’s having real trouble accepting…

which would go 100% against his stated ethos

Look if you said some of the things Chappelle say in his specials out of context, they’d be racist, transphobic and sexist. But I think he navigates the line fine enough.

Yeah, Eddie Murphy has apologized for those specials plenty of times and has shown that he’s grown up since then. I see no reason to view him as anything other than a good guy who had some learning to do and did it.

Amazing how white LGBT saw no problem with sketches about race or the N word, proving his point that you aren’t allies.

I see Laserface is here just tearing ass through every negative comment again with the most withering “no u”s he can muster.

“The more you say I can’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it. It has nothing to do with what you’re saying I can’t say.”

Fun fact: he just bought up some of the land that affordable housing was going to be built on.

The right to free speech is not the right to a Netflix special. Netflix can, and does, refuse to produce or air material every single day.

He’s a firm believer in “rules are there to free me and to bind others.”