COVID is what fucked things up and required the day-date release, which you mention one time in the article.

Typically the way anime works is that it takes ages for a second season to come out, but if a show is popular enough to get that far, then subsequent seasons will come out much more quickly, usually on a yearly basis.

Westworld was one of HBO’s most popular shows, had already been renewed for a 5th and final season. Zaslav cancelled it anyway (even though it violated his contract with the actors and required him to pay them millions) because the show had a high budget and he decided he’d rather use that money to make multiple…

Oh man, which superhero should I pick? Edgy cliched Superman parody, or edgy cliched Superman parody with mustache?

Oh, so that’s what C-3PO meant by “human-cyborg relations.”

“Wokeness” means being bad at sending emails?

I just hired and fired a guy

This guy sounds like a generic right wing douchebag, and the world’s right wing douchebags are currently having their brains eaten by transphobia. So they have to shove their obsession into every conversation they possibly can.

Okay, out of the modern titles I’ve only played MKX, so maybe 11 fixes this, but: I mean, plotwise, a reboot seemed inevitable because they sorta wrote themselves into a corner in X, where a big time jump ages all the characters so now the main cast are all in their 50's. You can’t move the timeline forward too much…

Yeah, but the game is free to play now, which means its survival relies on hardcore fans who are willing to invest in the game. And hardcore fans care about lore.

The promised AI game revolution has arrived!

It’s still hand-drawn, but now it’s digitally inked and colored, which does change the look quite a bit (this isn’t unique to The Simpsons; no cartoon produced in North America has been colored by hand for over a decade.)

The show is usually great on a purely technical level so this is probably a Twitter issue. Either that or the episode’s final audio mix still isn’t finished.

Yeah, everyone hates the Micheal Jackson episode.

Presumably this will be his first spirit guide who doesn’t turn out to be a chili-based hallucination.

Were you always his boring or did you set “be boring” as a life goal for yourself.

So now that the company is facing massive international fines and is bleeding money at a spectacular rate, suddenly Elon doesn’t want his name on it anymore.

This week on a very special episode, Blossom teaches Joey about the power of unions. “Whoa!” says Joey.

Good Doctor is such a great example of what happens when you don’t make the effort to diversify a writers’ room. You end up with a show that’s a global laughingstock because its main character is an a Magical Autism stereotype being written by a group of people who’ve obviously never been in the same building as an…

I unironically am glad as well, as it’s interesting to deep dive into what makes memes happen. Tacky or not, they’re a reflection of our culture, and talking about them is certainly more interesting than a generic hot take from some guy who can’t even spell the word “article.”