A lot of Zack’s critiques have been mean spirited and cynical in a way that bothers me, but he does a reasonably good job articulating them, and I’ve respected and appreciated the skill and effort at critical review, even where I disagreed (and a lot of times I have agreed - this show is struggling right now, and…

Having now been subjected to his attempt at an English accent, it suddenly struck the Brits, “You know what, I can see this guy as a reviled villain upon whom we wish a violent death”.

Per IMDB, he has not. His lone directing credits are Get Out and Us. He’s EP’d a few TV series - The Last O.G., Weird City, Loreana - but I haven’t seen those, and don’t even remember hearing about them. He’s involved a couple other things that haven’t come out yet but have good buzz - including Candyman and Twilight…

A twitpreneur, if you will.

You’re arguing with a straw man. I never said what the movie’s message had to be. The thrust of my post was about a message it shouldn’t convey - a feel good pat-on-the-back to white people about racism having been conquered. If that’s your perspective, then you’re free to have it, but my perspective is that it’s…

I think it’s a bit more complicated than “popular = bad”. As it relates to race relations, this movie is popular because it is telling people what they want to hear, and in doing so is reinforcing a perception of racism as a dated relic. At a time when radical racism is on the rise, that’s not just lazy populism, it’s…

Verne Troyer! A bigger snub, with Mike Myers in the house.

Yeah, now that you point it out, “decades” is an odd choice of time frame. Depending on what you mean by it, it’s either something that has been pretty steadily improved upon over the last 20 years (i.e., the kind of x+z 3D movement I first remember seeing in Sonic Adventures on Dreamcast, which blew my mind, and…

Classic Poe.

That would seem to be something that TV writers in California *could* appreciate.

YES. Final Destination. He did look kind of familiar, and I couldn’t place why.

I guess there are no women who could have written this article.

Poorly. I’ve read none of the article and none of the comments. But the title asked a question, and I’ve answered. Bye, now.

I’m a day late to the article, so no one will read this, but I have a dramatic history with Pogs.

“The host, a guy called Jesse Hynes,”

But to what end?

The pressure to keep movies short doesn’t come from audiences nearly as much as it does from studios. You can screen a 2 hour movie 50% more times than a 3 hour movie, while charging precisely the same ticket price. And sure, You Me & Dupree isn’t filling up the seats at any of those screenings, “so what?”, but you…

It sounded like an issue with the sound mixing on the broadcast, which made it worse than it needed to be. Some people tweeting from the stadium thought it sounded good in person. It sounded to me like the vocals mic was turned down a bit to make room for a backing track, but for at least the first song there wasn’t a…

As I was heading to bed last night after watching an episode of The Punisher, Netflix insistently played the preview clip for this show, unsolicited. Usually, that would annoy me, but I sat through the clip every time it played, and it intrigued me.

I don’t mind the criticism. That’s what critics are for. Though I disagree with the critiques that fixate on the show being something different than what you think it should be as a Star Trek show, or how it fits in the continuity.