Not what happened.

It hasn’t been a secret that he’s something of an asshole and difficult to work with, but it seems like something acutely bad happened.

I mean, it’s only weird inasmuch as people acted like movies like John Wick (and the Matrix) just appeared fully formed out of nowhere rather than repackaging ideas from (mostly) Hong Kong action flicks.

Well, those are people who took the job knowing that the franchise was mistreating her, so we could go around in circles on this forever.

I mean, this is a strained analogy, but if we want to frame it in that manner, it’s actually more like a striking worker returning to work after getting the better contract they struck for.

I didn’t mean that as a serious criticism; just to say that it was self-evident.

Okay fella.

Yeah, this dude isn’t nerdy at all!

QED.

His post isn’t “I prefer episodic TV.” It’s “the golden age of serialized television is fucking stupid and so are you.”

“Perceive?”

I was polite until you accused me of being on your dick, before also saying I am attracted to you.

My dude, I made a lighthearted comment about your anachronistic analogy and you lost your goddamn mind.

Yes, surely the person correcting your obvious fucking mistake must be MAGA! No one could possibly be politically aligned with you and think you’re a putz.

Dude trapped in 1995 (dated references and gay panic jokes) has seriously thin skin.

Okay boomer.

It kind of feels like a terrible sign for society, where even when we are at least turning our brains half off to watch something, so many people feel the need to turn it all the way off.

It’s a bit more than a funny take. It’s so transparently fucking stupid that it’s an obvious troll.

But the Simpsons aside, this wasn’t about any good TV shows.

I feel like we shouldn’t use the present tense when discussing things that are over a quarter century old, like the entire notion that Howard Stern is a controversial figure in the spotlight. The thing you are paraphrasing was the inflection point where people stopped actively hating him, which was followed by his…