“You know, Sex and the City turned into The Golden Girls so gradually I didn’t even notice!”

Yeah fair - poor word choice. More, middle-of-the-road by contemporary political tastes, but indeed emphatic.

I think part of it is that Studio 60 retroactively shed a light on the cornier, self-important parts of Sorkin’s wider body of work. Easy to be wide-eyed at an idealized liberal version of the White House, but once you see the same approach taken in Studio 60, Sorkin’s Sorkining around becomes easier to mock in…

fuck yeah

What’s the extra B on bbypassing for?

That really would have been the only acceptable answer. Anything else would be “fine” at best.

Ha! Too true

Honestly, of all the characters featured in that movie, why give the fashiest of them a spin-off? Do the Rittenhouses of the world really need any more validation?

I’m genuinely interested to see if they try to make “America” a bit more, well, less cartoonishly off-base when it comes to the idea of how to depict Caribbean Latinos.

Aren’t they the only North American marsupial?

I find it so odd that Larrain’s work for the US film industry has focussed so closely on prominent women in positions proximate to power but not in control themselves. His work done in Chile, while similarly close character portraits, was focused much more often than not on men rather than women, and men who were…

I dunno about Halloween, but I do know which song makes me think of both Valentines and Presidents day. . .

Dude, were you here in the late 2000s? They ran a column and podcast called “The hater”, and half the news stories had a big red NO on them. Users like zodiacmotherfucker ran rampant with rants against pop culture media. Joke accounts hinged on persistent flaws in HBO’s programming. There was a guy called boypussy,…

Spacejam 2 sucking doesn’t take away from Squid game’s entire last episode and and craven sequel-hooking being an issue. 

Evans isn’t without his detractors either though. People gave him major shit for having John Bolton of all people as his expert guest speaker on Iran in his podcast focusing on Middle Eastern politics (which was also accused of having a distinct lack of Middle-Eastern voices anyway, along with a generally…

I watched enough of Superstore to decide it’s fine, and also not for me. Hardly any comfort if we only get one US sitcom consistently dealing with one of the major social-political facets of contemporary life though, is it.

The UK Office might not hold up altogether, but I think most of its imitators (especially the US Office) completely wasted the wider potential it introduced beyond latching on to the documentary format as a platform for asides. Most of that has to do with US TV being really bad at dealing with class/labor issues in…

That’s just a timing issue. kind of how the Stone Roses made it so high in the British music press’ “top of all time” lists in the early 90s

“Booyah”, probably.

Too true. Mind you, that’s part of the problem too. by subcontracting out both the work (and responsibility) companies like Apple get to claim ignorance for human rights abuses (as well as all sorts of other shady dealings) when these things come out, while at the same time setting up supply chains where they’re more…