And while you’re at your library, ask if they have subscriptions to Kanopy and/or Hoopla. If you’re affiliated with a university you might have Kanopy access through them, too. Kanopy and Hoopla both have, in my experience, really solid collections of independent/art house films, old classics, and documentaries. Plus…
“As Swift advises in her Vogue interview from 2016, the key to being a successful singer is to ‘get a good lawyer.’”
I have watched it, and yes in retrospect her appearance and behavior in that episode make much more sense!
“Hader, being the tight lipped, big dicked man that he is...”
Even when she’s mellow, that pained, plastered-on smile for the first 20 seconds is a dead giveaway about the entitled rage bubbling underneath.
I hold no illusions about anyone ever forgoing a seven figure payout. I figure she would have been just fine accepting the bonus if she’d been a bit more diplomatic with her employees. If you cavalierly disregard your employees’ gripes about not getting a bonus while simultaneously getting your own massive bonus, then…
I did a double take of that, too. I mean, we picked up months after the botched coup attempt, right? And in all that time, and with their estrangement, Logan still was like, OK, yeah, he’s still COO? That was weird for me too. I suppose it served the needs of the narrative, but it was clunky to me.
I think it only works if you perceive it not as grief but as panic. Like, if you’d sold yourself, body and soul, to an octogenarian asshole like Logan, and then he dies without you getting anything in writing, you’d probably panic. That’s what it seems like she’s doing rn. Kerry’s not necessariliy grief stricken.…
I personally love how she lambastes them and then has the nerve to end with “Thank you. Have a great day.” You too, bitch. Except don’t. It won’t matter to you at all, because you’re sitting on a giant pile of money while the people whose labor actually supports the company get screwed.
Does it? My take on the trailer is that it was a painful 1:50 of strobe lights and pounding music trying to cover up bad acting and even worse dialogue. It’s a pass from me. Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd’s acting struggles to come across as believable as human beings. Both look very robotic.
The words are bad enough. But if you can, definitely watch the video because the overall delivery makes it so. much. worse. Owen literally finger-wags at her employees as she yells at/lectures them. Her voice is shaking she’s so angry that employees have the temerity to ask for/expect bonuses. Then she tells them to…
We’ve got two pizza places that we’re “loyal” to to an extent. The first one is a national chain, and it’s solid pizza but not great. But it’s 2 minutes’ drive from our house, while the other pizza places in town are a solid 15. The other place has great pizza but damn a small (12") pizza is now $24 and a large (18")…
If you ever see Motor City Pizza Co at your grocery store, give it a try. It’s pretty much all we buy for frozen pizza anymore. It’s surprisingly good for $7.
Nah, the timelines don’t match up. Season 2 of MQ was shot in late 2020 and early 2021. At that point, season 1 of White Lotus hadn’t even premiered yet (July 2021), and everyone at that point thought that WL would be a limited series with no subsequent seasons. So when Abraham was filming season 2 of MQ, nobody had…
Oh for sure. There’s no future for any of them at Waystar. But only Roman seems to realize that. I really hope he doesn’t backslide from that place in the last 7 episodes. Logically, I know that he will enter the horse race just like Shiv and Kendall will, and I’m already broken up about it!
I really, really want The Return of Marcia somewhere in the last 7 episodes of the series.
I so badly want Roman to get out. He seemed like he was getting to that mental space in episode 2. He kept asking Kendall and Shiv if they didn’t just want to be done with all the machinations. Roman genuinely wanted to be out on his own, doing something new. He seems like he’s really ready for a different life. I…
Oh, as I was watching the episode, I was already thinking about how you could write a fucking journal article on the rhetorical and sartorial choices for Shiv’s hair in this episode. She’s always so perfectly coiffed, and here she’s using a plain hair tie to put her hair in a half-assed messy pony/bun thing. I was the…
That’s interesting, because I probably read that situation almost exactly opposite of you. I feel like he did manipulate Willa with the way he asked her if she was only with him for the money. He’s pressuring her to say no, to say that she loves him, even though he knows that she doesn’t. It’s incredibly manipulative…