With Artie Buco tough-guy-posturing—at least until the slushies fly—and Patsy lemur-climbing a pole to rescue a hanging Christopher Columbus dummy, a Mafia-led rally against Native American dissent of a Columbus Day parade sets the tone.

Frasier has always lived and died by the cast that surrounds him. He was a loveable prig on Cheers, well-situated alongside sitcom actors at the top of their game. And then for the spinoff they were careful to surround him with another stellar cast of likeable actors, perfectly primed to bounce off one another.…

Black Christmas is also the Mostest Canadian Slasher Movie ever made. And that’s all right eh.

On the other hand, a canonical “Werner Herzog exists in the Star Wars U and is delightful” is a reason to at least preserve Mandalorian S1.

requiring contestants to strip in their audition

If this were merely fan fiction - a brand-new unofficial corner of the Star Wars universe wholesale invented by some diehard fan with a big budget - it would be the best fan-fiction ever made.

“Reeve Tuesti”

To me, the unforgiveable thing in Nemesis was how it completely ignored Data’s emotion chip. They did all that work in Generations and First Contact (nobody remembers #9 so let’s not talk about it) and then in Nemesis he’s just back to his emotionless self.

I guarantee you that Brett Dalton did it, and no matter their best efforts to be rid of him, he will keep on breaking out prison/being reborn as an interdimensional alien/etc. for each new season.

time to dust off my script for Kitty Pryde vs. the Brood and see where it gets me. Ridley Scott can direct. 

i don’t disagree! it is a great deal! but i do think you have some kind of duty as a journalist to write an account that isn’t peppered with cheerleader hyperbole. Here, for example, is a writer who does a great job of “celebrating” the win without coming across as a PR person:

i am completely on-side with the writers (and unions!) but my god does this ever read as a PR puff piece written by a WGA rep. i wish gizmodo would at lesat try to write journalism as journalism.

i am literally the world’s biggest scott pilgrim fan and i found this... lackluster. maybe it’ll work better in context, but the voice acting sounded flat (quelle surprise! none of these actors are voice actors) and the stilted animation was disappointing. i hate that anime-style still image with flapping mouths, so…

Jason Mraz, Vanderpump Rules’ Ariana Maddix, and The Brady Brunch’s Barry Williams.

what i want to know is whether, absent any more interesting idea, the script deteriorates into scenes of actual violence.

as long as they are close in visuals and performance to each other.

what’s the opposite of the Fry take my money meme

I’m not even convinced that the “Chase as asshole” narrative has ever been borne out in any meaningful way. In his public appearances or interviews, he genuinely seems to be a decent guy, content with his family, his main fault being a lack of interest in the Hollywood hype machine.

That is a very long way of saying that Marvel only made Kamala a mutant because Fox owned the X-themed licensing rights*. Once the rights reverted, it was obvious she was going to get shuffled over to the far more interesting corner of the Marvel universe.

been overwhelmingly positive (on social media at least)