Honestly, I take stuff like Legion S2 and Fargo S4 as part of the reason I’m excited. Even if Hawley’s stuff isn’t always of the exact same quality, he swings for the fences as hard as he can, and its always interesting to watch

I’d be interested to know why in particular it got cancelled, theres a 90% chance its ratings because the ratings imploded in the second season due to the bomb format, but the show still hits me as a prime D+ show, so it feels weird it didn’t get transferred there.

Agreed, with the addition that companies are more than happy to stoke the fire against short sellers. Because high interest by short sellers can create the impression that a stock is overvalued, causing the price to go down and make shareholders angry, lots of companies have genuine resentment towards short sellers…

The movie is totally awesome, but the big reason that Geisel hated it is that after poor test screenings the whole thing got chopped to shit in the editing room, with half the original musical scenes taken out, and Geisel had been super involved in the production, so when it fell apart he was upset.

In a weird way the fact that the adaptations keep getting sidetracked is testament to the power of the themes, that in a story almost explicitly about how the glitz and glamor is self-serving and empty, people still keep wanting it, just like the characters in the story

Tolstoy believed that the power/purpose of the novel was to induce a sense of empathy in the reader, to cause them to feel and understand and see what and why they do what they do, with his hope being that it would make us a more understanding and empathetic society. Its harder to hate the man you understand than the…

See, the issue with them is that while I agree that Gump and BTF have elements of bitterness, it never feels deeply bitter, rather feeling like dustings on top of a pretty nostalgic core. Gump talks a bit about some of the darker topics, but it never seems to go far enough to actually leave a lasting impact on the…

I feel like part of the issue is that the Giants are at this point, pretty damn old, and its hard to comment on a society that you are increasingly far from the center of. I think Pynchon is my favorite lit Giant that still delivers, but alot of that is because his stuff was always pretty radical (http://bostonreview.n…

Yeah, the final confrontation being an anti-climax is fitting on a metaphorical level (the source of your trauma is often less powerful than you think they are when you confront them even if you are scared of them), but from a three act structure perspective its a big issue. I think that the book makes it work a bit…

I mean, the Star Wars/Triumph of the Will thing has been known for decades at this point. He makes a decent point even if its a bit of a cold take

Because the AV Club doesn’t really give a shit about theme parks or the larger complexities of what the industry is doing in the wake of the coronavirus, it just wants a quick “Disney Bad” article it can pump out in under 10 minutes (notice how its 2 paragraphs and barely says anything specific) and can blast out to…

This whole thing is feeling more and more Jussie Smollett

See, the issue I have with this article is that if, say, People Magazine had run the same thing, it hits me as on-brand for Jezebel to write a post pointing out the very real stereotypes surrounding black people and swimming, and to point out the infantalization of an accomplished woman. I don’t think the article is…

I agree with you, I think its just weird to eulogize it with THIS movie. It feels like wistfully reminiscing about when parents let their children go off and play on their own without supervision when discussing a serial killer, the subject of the conversation is the best possible counterpoint to the thing you are…

Its going to remove FOMO....

This actually hits me as on brand for Burger King, they’ve been intentionally going weird and wild with their advertising for the past few years; The deal where you can get a whopper for a penny if you order it from the mobile app inside a McDonalds springs to mind.

Honestly, this hits me as the future of streaming. You get it for a few months, broadcast you’ve got it and let it soar in rankings and recommendations, then when it begins to fall off after a few months you let it go. Its hella expensive to keep something big for months and there gets to be an eventual taking for…

Part of it is that it was a bad idea to make it the BIG CENTERPIECE of what amounted to XBox’s big E3 presentation and the Series X hard sell theyve been pushing back doing for months. I think it looked fun, but the lack of polish from what is, in theory, a heavily optimized demo of the BEST parts of the game is…

I remember during the early days of the Trump presidency there was a push on Tumblr to donate to the ACLU, lots of reblogs and passionate rhetoric. And then something happened, I think it was something like the Unite the Right rally where some right-wing craziness happened (not nearly as deadly but still not fun), and…

Id be interested in a complete write-up on the MST3K behind the scenes stuff, it seems like theres some pretty high barriers around all of them just collaborating again