This is what you get when you worship an anodyne corporate ghost of a human being. He stockpiles cash and slowly remakes a sport in his image.

but she gets achingly close.

Well look, we can all disagree on “mother!”, that’s fair—but I do really like her. I think in the right roles she’s fucking killer.

I actually like her! She can be really fun in the right movie. I just think things are trending in the wrong direction for her, and trying to win the ‘cool guy’ over by being all “lol fuckin art movies, amirite” is... sad. Again, those are your peers.

His father had just died of cancer, he overreacted, subsequently wrote him (Fincher) a letter of apology, has spent a decade-plus detailing why he said it, that he shouldn’t have said it, and that he apologized directly and in public.

She also took a giant dump on “Phantom Thread” in the Maron interview which, whatever you think of that movie, maybe not the brightest idea to make an unforced insult of a great filmmaker? Like, the work of your fucking peers? Grow the fuck up. Also maybe you can’t make fun of a movie you just admitted you only…

For me it was watching Grimes’ wife (Lori?) giving birth as she died. I think that was season 2? With the close-up on her face, which was shaking around vaguely because someone was yanking a kid out of her out of frame, and her eyes started to go.

Whats funny is this is not only true, but he has like, two modes of singing (that angry-cat growl and the almost-Adam-Sandler-voice plaintive mode) and independently they’re both very high on this list.

I think he’s got a point but the other thing driving this is fan service. All those great writers, directors, and performers are scared shitless changing this or that detail because John Q Neckbeard will hop on the internet and gripe about the set photo with a costume change or rumors that this character did *this*…

“crying white mothers are ratings gold.”

This is so transparent its almost sad. I find it weird that you know in these situations the anchor will never pull back the curtain. “You’re clearly a PR person coming on our show after your recent disastrous news cycle grasping at making someone else the center of blame, and doing a really poor job of it.”

Albert presumably has some background in writing or journalism. He’s making a living writing. That shit ain’t easy. Considering the subject and the lay-up nature of the overall joke, I’d bet he didn’t even break a sweat making it.

Reading that dick-clown’s timeline is fascinating. They know they stepped directly on a landmine with that town hall and are scrambling. CNN “scripted the questions,” the crowd was “rude to Dana Loesch,” the event “was not meant for long speeches,” “how dare these plebes disrespect a US Senator.” These are profoundly…

Speaking as a really big fan of Cross from the late 90s into the 00s, he is fully embracing his inner-old-man. The rebooted Netflix Mr Show episodes were a lot of Bob being amazing and David being the cranky “these kids and their social issues” guy. It is really tiresome, not that funny, and disappointing in how…

I agree, but I’d argue it is structured so well you effectively get both. The twist and the relief comes because the movie situated you perfectly to anticipate, absorb, and reflect on that dire result before rescuing you with Rod’s appearance.

Agreed, perfection—those moments where you put together that Chris has nothing in the moment to exonerate him and no benefit of the doubt coming his way for obvious reasons goes through everyone’s mind when they first watch it and the sirens first blare. You gird yourself for the dire ending, which almost has the…

lol SO true

Jesus watching those videos made me happy because it made me realize I’m not cynical and bitter all the way to my core.

I will fucking open a vein if Sonja is gone.

I’d “laugh out loud” if it was Youkilis. Dude is starting up a business, right? Brother in law, has a couple rings of his own.