“tiny hints”
Were we watching the same show? I can’t imagine getting to episode six and not thinking something was genuinely off with the main character. Alien? Angel? Robot? Time traveler? All teased. There’s no way it should have caught you off guard.

I will agree that it would have worked better to have the reveal…

‘”It turns out they’re all aliens who, for some reason, have settled on Earth to understand more about its people. Each one masquerades themselves in a different profession to do this.”’

I think Neeson got a bad rap with that particular incident, although I can’t speak to him vouching for Spacey.

Holy fuck. Just because groping is really common where you’re from doesn’t mean it’s okay. It means where you’re from is fucked up.

I don’t really think he’s being shamed out of working. It’s just business. A movie studio worried people wouldn’t turn out to see a movie with him in it, so they replaced him.

Oof. I didn’t realize that. Of course, given Stephen has done the audiobooks for so long, unfortunately I guess I should have seen that one coming.

Liam Neeson had almost managed to get people to forget about that time he talked about walking down the street trying to beat up black guys with a baseball bat. Don’t drag yourself into the negative spotlight for Kevin Spacey of all people, my dude!

Stay tuned for a summer blockbuster starring Spacey, Neeson, Stone, and Fry. :/

“ generally accepted Western standard of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ however”

“Innocent until proven guilty” just means the jury should only vote guilty if they think there’s no reasonable doubt about it. Literally no one else in the world but those twelve people is under any obligation to consider it. And if anyone wants to argue this, I’ll just ask: did you wait until Harvey Weinstein was…

Yep. That’s the one that hurts me here. I love Stephen Fry. This is disappointing to see from him.

Stephen wtf are you doing.

It’s...a conundrum.

This Macklemore? The guy who went on stage dressed up like a caricature from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?

Sincere question: What should the US do? Cut Israel off and leave it alienated and its leaders even more paranoid than they are now? Israel has nuclear weapons. Iran may have them. Biden is trying to maintain a delicate balance between getting the Gaza genocide stopped and having Israel believe its only recourse is to …

It’s funny because there are some people out here still treating the very real onrush of domestic fascism as an alarmist hypothetical, when there are whole-ass documents (plural) stating EXACTLY what the MAGA GOP’s plan is. More reasonable (by comparison) Republicans in deep red states are leaving the party, and…

(“The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all/And fuck no, I’m not votin’ for you in the fall/Undecided.”)

S3, with the additions of Ben and Chris is really where the show takes off to new heights. That said, HOT TAEK ALERT: for a show that cares so much for its characters and shows them all a fair amount of heart and love, I find it odd that once he leaves, Brendanowicz is completely forgotten. No cameo, no offhanded…

No Oswalt fllibuster?

Hell, it’s even simpler than that! Her employer reportedly told her to cut the shit - multiple times - and she decided that preferred pronouns and “this was just like the Nazis” were hills to die on.