It was the stereotypical 80's New York tough guy who wasn’t a nerd but was also surprisingly really smart. That guy is now CEO of Paramount pictures.

I think “isn’t a half bad actor” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

I think my dream Batman movie is Affleck as Batman, Matt Damon as Robin - with Kevin Smith writing and directing.

‘I’d like a big, prestigious job that pays a lot,’ says freelancer.

I can see interviewing Summers to set up the doc along the lines of “remember when Nickelodeon was goofy kids’ game shows?” before transitioning to “but then the network produced sitcoms for tweens that had a hidden dark side…” But hitting him with innuendo-filled clips of those shows for the interview seems like a…

My issue with the doc is a common problem I see with these HBO Documentary “series”. They have enough material for a real tight and interesting 2 hour documentary but then decide to pad it and “shocking cliff hangers” and such to turn it into 4 episodes of content. I binged it so maybe I noticed it a bit more but…

“Dakto Johnson” is what George Lucas would have named her anyway.

While the doc overall has worthy goals, I do wonder why you’d even bother steering an interview with him in this direction since, as has been pointed out, it has nothing to do with the shows he was on and generally concerns a phase of the network that was after his time there.

You didn’t even diss me for accidentally typing “Dakto Johnson”.

I’m really happy this didn’t turn into a “Marc Summers was sus” article.

Agreed. I absolutely get why he is upset about being included when he asked not to be, but before I clicked I was worried that he would be implicated in some way, and every indication from everything I’ve ever read are that he’s a good dude and I thought that illusion would be smashed. But sounds like he just helped…

I agree. I’ll take weird, overthought takes any day over celebrity gossip lifted entirely from another site.

I can understand wanting to distance himself from all of that but, honestly, his genuinely shocked reaction only made him look better. He doesn’t have anything to be upset about (other than the events that caused the documentary to exist at all)

Well, the first and second questions at least are answered by the film. The mom is on the expedition because she’s leading it and gets to decide whether or not to hire herself. Cassie can’t take the girls to the police because she is herself wanted for murder by the police.

lol “zero common sense” what does this mean

“Madame Web is undeniably a piece of shit in myriad ways, there’s no case to be made that it’s a masterpiece—it’s just too incomplete. The moments of greatness are transcendent in the way a great improv scene might be: Despite it all, the pieces, temporarily, fell into place.”

“Camp requires intentionality”

By whose definition? Sontag made the distinction between “naïve camp” and “deliberate camp” as the writer seems to do here. 

His dark turn along with Dave Thomas in Follow That Bird was a career high.

Joe Flaherty was a beloved and iconic comedian and actor. You know what he’s doing now? He’s dead!

As grim as it is and as much as his career was so much more than this, I also couldn’t NOT think of this.