On the plus side, all of those names sound fantastic when read aloud by Matt Berry.

Dunno about kinja, but before the Kai Cole story I’d been seeing people criticising Whedon’s past work for a fair while on the basis of it being fine for the 90s, but failing to keep pace with progress.

Personally, I find his work to be a bit juvenile. I will always love Buffy and Angel, but recent rewatches were slightly disappointing. The rhythms in the dialogue get grating after a while, and characters betray each other so deeply and ~dramatically that it’s an utter fallacy to expect half of them to still be…

AV Club mentioned this show when it was first announced, back before the whole Ray Fisher/ everything else fallout hit (I think his ex-wife had brought some stuff to light, but that was it). And even then, it sounded more like Whedon parody. Victorian London? Mysteriously super-powered ladies? Names like “Amalia…

Because Hunter Biden isn’t a mouthpiece for the administration? Because he’s not purposely going on all of the talk shows trying to get himself a future Senate seat? Because literally nobody in the entire world outside of the Biden family and the psychotic right wing care, even one little tiny bit, about Hunter Biden?

They HAVE been making bun of Cuomo, a lot. And the other two aren’t real things, they’re just right wing echo chamber nonsense. There’s nothing about Hunter Biden no matter how desperately you want it to be so.

So sorry to inject this superficial personal opinion, but my God, is Ego Nwodim beautiful!

Chris Redd is very funny and I’m glad they’re giving him more to do 

They’ve made fun of Cuomo and Newsome a lot, including later in that Weekend Update segment you mentioned. Is it possible that you just are inventing ways to make your ideology seem victimized because you know deep down that there’s absolutely nothing worth defending in your actual beliefs?

They actually had more about Cuomo than they have about Gaetz - two cold open appearances, and Update jokes, whereas Gaetz got one cold open and then some Update jokes. 

1. I thought the star trek skit was great.

This SNL episode only served as yet another painful reminder that Carey Mulligan is married to the lead wanker from godawful Mumford & Sons.

The answer is: this guy is obviously the best choice to host Jeopardy!

Gotta’ get Patrick Stewart to record a Tiktok video supporting Burton as host saying, “Make it so, Sony!” in his best Jean Luc Picard voice.

it would be if he weren’t right

Is “Jeopardy host” really a job that takes a ton of your energy though? Seems like something where if you still wanted to do a podcast / guest star in other shows / etc it’d be easy enough to work around.

I see it more like a Hardwick type thing, a “nerd” Seacrest adjacent. I'm sure it'll be disappointing regardless. 

Hey there; just wanna say fuck you. Okay, thanks.

This makes a lot of sense and they should do it. It would give the show a boost, too. If they hand it off to the game show equivalent of Ryan Seacrest it would be a bummer.  

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