The reference to him being the “worst guy” is hyperlinked to an article that justifies that ranking based on what the Ringer reported about him, coming across as a misogynist frat boy prick, not about his prior hosting experience or performance as a guest host. The view being expressed is that the conduct is…

Frequently when I see that at live sporting events, it’s a portly 32-year old ripping a prize out of the hands of a teary eyed child.

I’m not super strongly motivated to defend Tarantino as a writer, I think his strength is more in directing, but if you think his writing is outright “terrible” then it’s all the more impressive that he makes his scripts work so well in his capacity as a director.

The unlikelihood that I’ll see British mini series is not exclusively an issue of access. I’m not seeing any advertising for these shows or seeing any critical coverage, so I don’t even really know they exist, much less do I know whether they’re good, or feel motivated to hunt them out and watch them on a third tier…

Henstridge and De Caestecker were both so wonderful on Agents of Shield, but I’d love to see them get new good roles rather than be stuck in those characters. Of course, I’d rather see them as Fitz and Simmons again than not at all, but they deserve new roles.

I didn’t say (or “suggest”) that 7 was so incredibly low that that the Price is Right must have been firing pregnant women left right and centre, I said that it wasn’t so “impressive” a number as to be an exculpatory fact, the way that Richards’ statement implies.

Hmm. 7 children — I don’t think that’s as impressive of a number as Richards seem to think it is.

The $7.7 million in the case where Richards was accused of misconduct wasn’t a settlement. It was a jury award. The show fought it to the very end, which is extremely rare. Even defendants who didn’t do what they’re accused of will frequently settle civil cases. The terms of the settlement just reflect the strength of…

A jury awarded more than $8 million in damages for that pregnant model scandal. Juries don’t make specific findings of fact, but in the American justice system that’s as close as you’re ever going to get to “guilty” of sexual harassment, not “may be guilty”.

I have a pretty strong recollection of the hype campaign as well, I was a regular Today Show viewer at the time. They had a reveal segment, and the “huh?” was so thick in the air you could cut it with a knife. The little dork in cargo pants wee wee weeing around an obstacle course with a little puddle and some gentle…

The Disney+ tv series have been of high quality and very good to their stars thus far, and Hawkeye is next up later this year. He may come out of it smelling like roses. Or it’s the last nail in the coffin, but either way he’s getting his shot.

There was never a world in which they were going to put out a 4 hour version of that movie into theaters.

It makes sense to try and fix something that is clearly flawed and bad--you won’t necessarily succeed, but there isn’t much to lose, because if you do nothing the movie will definitely be bad. 

A movie that has been meddled with too much by studio suits is its own kind of bad, but they didn’t get their jobs by being oblivious to what a good movie looks like, if they’re meddling, it’s because the director’s version was also bad, and probably worse.

They’ll almost certainly want to arbitrate the case (privately, where nothing goes public), and Johannson is unlikely to object, since the public court process will also be unpleasant for her, and Disney will more readily pay her out under cover of confidentiality. I’m actually surprised if her Black Window contract…

Whittaker tackled a daunting challenge, selling a skeptical audience on the possibility that The Doctor could look very different from how we’ve always seen The Doctor (i.e., a woman rather than a man), yet still capture the familiar essence of the character. And she totally knocked it out of the park. In a lot of…

I agree the story sounds bullshit (of the funny variety), but it’s conceivable you could shoot at each location in reverse order. So if he gets more curmudgeonly over the course of the day of shooting, it fits with his character.

Kinnaman definitely seemed like a member of the Jai Courtney class of completely forgettable white guy action stars with the Robocop reboot, but he completely won me over with his Altered Carbon performance, and he’s pretty good in For All Mankind (not overwhelmingly good, but he has actual charisma and presence). Jai…

You’re forgetting about Odenkirk’s inherent hotness, the desert ain’t got nothing on him.

This man just survived making Nobody, I refuse to believe that Better Call Saul is what gets the better of him. Hopefully just heat and dehydration, that man is a tireless worker.