I’m interested to see how this one will play out. IMO, the books have a lot of amazingly cool sci-fi/physics ideas in them, but are otherwise terrible in ways that might play into Benihoff and Weiss’ own storytelling flaws. Feels like it might well end up a mess, but probably quite an interesting one, and maybe the…

That season was the worst. The last two seasons were definitely better - I’d consider them more-or-less a return to form, but at the very least they’re a step up in quality.

That one’s probably the most OTT, but if you’re gonna mention S2's dialogue you gotta include Frank Semyon:

IMO, Season 1 of True Detective is both incredible and overpraised. Pizzolato’s writing of female characters is sketchy as hell; the dialogue and angst go overboard at times (fully so in Season 2). If you’ve spent any time around creative writing students (which Pizzolato was) you’d recognize Rust Cohle as a Mary Sue…

See response to Lindsay/Disparate Dan. I’m not gonna die on the hill that she was definitely deliberately being antisemitic, but I do feel like outright omitting (as opposed to merely downplaying or defending) the quote of hers that at least resembles an antisemitic dogwhistle is some weird shit.

There are plenty of ways to read her statement and as many have pointed out, many pro-Palestinian people highlight the fact that the West has a vested reason to want some amount of control of the Middle East because of various resources as well as the Evangelical Christian rapture-themed agenda.

I massively appreciate some disagreement/pushback that isn’t trolling, so a sincere thanks there.

anyone who disagrees with my extreme, right-wing, pro-Israel views is automatically an anti-semite

“First and foremost I condemn Anti-Semitism”

To everyone reading this: you are witnessing antisemitism creep in real time.

Yeah, it is definitely dubious. I don’t really care about Barrera one way or the other, or even the quote. But the way the reporting on this is going honestly feels pretty bizarre to me.

Oh sorry... I missed all the snark. Was that an edit?

I’m not gonna be able to respond to everything that’s in both articles. Although I will say cheers for providing them, and I will try look them over thoroughly.

A dogwhistle implying that Jews control the media is not antisemitic? Wow, who knew.

I’ll definitely grant you that Sarandon’s comments were way wilder, and I will definitely join you in saying fuck you to the tankies. And I would tentatively grant that if you perceive a pro-Israel bias in the media, it’s gonna be very very difficult to voice that in a non-dicey way.

Pretty fucking wild how the AV Club - which has seemingly never encountered an attempt to cancel someone it couldn’t get on board with - is omitting the ACTUAL antisemitic part of Barrera’s posts: “Western media only shows the [Israeli] side. Why do they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself.”

This is the only clip I can find of his comments:

Did you ever think there’s more to life than being really, really, ridiculously corrupt?

I think this look is called ‘Orange Steel.’

I remember hearing about a director’s cut of Blackhat that was given a one-off screening, and apparently it improves the experience somewhat. The biggest change is that the film was supposed to open with the soy futures hack rather than the nuclear power plant, but this was deemed ‘not exciting enough’ by studios so…