Kali Reis was the best thing about Night Country. Absolutely powerhouse, and she should be a goddamn star.

If Jon thinks having Bad Faith Argument O’Reilly on to discuss the political divide is “balance”, what does that say about him?

Except lots of people have done a great job of it time and time again. It’s not the song’s fault. It’s hers.

If duels were legal I would challenge you to a duel for invoking Cyndi Lauper’s name as having anything to do with this performance 

Maybe this is a generational divide, but I assumed “written it down immediately” meant the Notes app on his phone. Because no, people don’t usually bring a pen and paper into a Portapotty these days.

It’s easier to see in Hollywood and clearly point to an individual. In business it’s all over, but harder to clearly rally around and critique any one person. 

It’s weird that the nepo baby critique is always about people in the arts and not people in business, where the outcome is more substantive (and funnier) when someone just fucking sucks

I mean, if she’s tired of hearing people say bad things about her (no matter how justified they may be), she’s 66 and has “fuck you” money. So why not just go be a regular, old, retiree?

Additionally, I never had the feeling in 2016 that if Trump lost his supporters would try a fucking armed coup.

Right on the timing. They demonstrated the Nat/Syd connection with the omelette. It’s hard to make friends as an adult but I feel like when you do it’s swift and powerful. There’s real love between them, not least fueled by being caught in the storm of Carmy together.

Side note: the Chicago-based actor who plays Nat’s obstetrician, Keith Kupferer, is the lead in the extraordinary movie Ghostlight, and everyone should absolutely see it.

I liked the CW because it had so much more genre content than the other networks. Like the network equivalent of sci-fi b-movies that occasionally strayed into something more.

“Really?” isn’t used here in the sense of “oh, really?”; it’s used in the rhetorical fashion of “ugh, *seriously*?” — like “Really?! with Seth and Amy” Weekend Update style. (They don’t hit it as hard as that, but that’s definitely the usage, which struck me as... probably not of that time.)

I don’t want to spoil anything but at the same time... nine lives, baby!

He’s not on your side and he’s certainly not on liberals’ side. He’s one of the chief anti-vaxxers who can’t stop showering Netanyahu with praise, vehemently hates Muslims, supports restricting immigration, and stacks his panels with discredited right wingers. He’s a hack who has been making the exact same three…

The worst part about Bill Maher’s show is Bill Maher.

Most action movies pitched at a mainstream audience are PG-13: all the Marvel movies, all DC movies other than Joker, all the Fast and Furious movies. all the Star Wars movies, all the Jurassic Park movies.

“Could we ever, for once, have a character who *isn’t* a special forces veteran? Maybe someone who worked in the motor pool or was a stock controller in a military food warehouse?”

I was shocked by that ending. The editing had made it seem like Dan was the clear winner, it seemed like he had become the narrator of the season.

Overall, while Kristen was phenomenal as the new host, it was a rather ho hum season. I realized recently that it’s in part because they’ve stopped treating the cast as…

“The other biker wives are nothing more than coat hangers for leather jackets.”