Having been inundated with the same trailer for Evil before its premiere, which seemed to painfully waste an intriguing cast on a really dumb idea, I have had zero interest in checking it out so far. Is it worth getting into? The only way I want a show with the premise of supposedly-supernatural events being…

It seems like people’s reactions to Joker are mostly on either end of an emotionally-driven spectrum of irrationality. Those that hate it have some decent criticisms for it not being great or even good, but pushing it to horrible appears to be driven by missed expectations or political controversy reaction more than…

Uuuugggh has any actor’s announcement of retiring soon ever meant anything? And he immediately throws in tons of caveats that show he’s in no way actually retiring. And his assertion that working on TV would be “9 to 5" shows he knows nothing about that world.

Except it’s not making fun of Peloton, it’s a humorous reaction to the story after the Peloton commercial. If people hadn’t reacted like they did, the Aviation commercial as it is would have made no sense. And she’s an actress, not a full-time Peloton employee, so she owes them exactly nothing after having done the…

Oh cool, does this mean we won’t see any more posts here about her being ever-dumb on the complete waste of time show she’s on? Because that would be great.

I’ll join in the chorus here about Russian Doll - it was pretty decent but its ranking here seems unwarranted. The ending really knocked it down several pegs - the whole season built up the characters in a compelling story, the finale had things shift to a narrowing, tense climax, then... some weird, unclear nonsense.…

Oh I remember this vaguely, that it aired at least, and that the next year Fox aired FreakyLinks, a one-season show which I seem to recall liking a lot.

Beyond the opaque nature of these numbers, wouldn’t they be of questionable value even if we had perfect ones? Viewership is relevant for movies in a theater, as the money is directly related to tickets bought, and for traditional TV it’s a combination of commercials and subscriptions, but for streaming it’s only…

That’s a really weird stance to take. There were a bunch of people making the decisions for the Peloton ad, and there were a bunch of people making decisions for the Aviation ad. She as the actress has very little to do with either decision, other than agree to get paid to act in two separate commercials, the second…

Aww, James Corden’s out already. I knew he wouldn’t get to the end, I just wish he stayed a bit longer, if for no other reason than to give me some kind of verification that someone out there finds him as completely insufferable as I do.

The Scorsese thing is weird, because there is no clear definition for “cinema”, and even if there were, the argument would be pointless. What, is there supposed to be some sort of regulatory body that controls which movies get released according to some judgment on artistic value? How would that even work?

Because the point of this movie seems to be less about redeeming the innocent protagonist than it is about vilifying the media. I’ve seen several reviews which say that Wilde’s character is basically a Disney villain. To be clear, Jewell was absolutely the innocent victim in reality, but the heavy-handedness with…

I read the book years ago, and while I found the structure interesting, at the end it kind of felt like having multiple concurrent, mostly-separate stories, while novel, did a disservice to each individual story by splitting the focus. Can anyone else give me their impressions? Now I’m not sure if the individual…

I’ve said this before, and probably will any time Norm’s SNL firing is discussed: as someone who was watching the show at the time, Norm’s performance was visibly degenerating week after week. It was getting ever-more-cringey: less laughs and longer pauses, getting more passive-aggressive with the audience, stumbling…

Completely agree, the memory loss only weakens the story and the characters, and in service of what? A “shocking” reveal later on that is itself weakened by the fact that the memory loss made the characters empty and boring, and thus your attachment to these characters is less than it would have been otherwise? It…

I can’t tell how sarcastic this is intended to be. I don’t think anyone anywhere is suggesting we live in caves, nor that cars are the greatest evil in the world and should all be destroyed. The straw man you have created is so bizarre it seems like you might be being overly sarcastic, but recent years have shown that…

Just because you admit climate change is real doesn’t mean everyone else has. It also doesn’t mean you are doing anything about it. Yes there is the possibility that people think things are so bad there are no solutions so they don’t try, but there are also many people who still refuse to believe climate change is…

In my experience basically everyone who calls themselves a Christian do some variation of this: pick certain parts of the bible that are easy for them to follow and point to that as proof they are Christians while just blatantly ignoring the parts they don’t like, then accuse others of failing for doing the same thing…

Oh my favorite for this is Exodus 21:22-25, which is weirdly specific and basically says if people are fighting and accidentally cause a by-standing woman to miscarriage there is a fine, but if they cause any injury to a by-standing person that same injury must be inflicted upon them. At a time when people were to be…

I’d imagine that it has had many different Morty’s before, and they exist primarily as tools in Rick’s schemes, so the possibility of Rick bringing a fascist Morty along for some possible use is non-zero. If the show were primarily about how smart Rick is then he would have had some easy keyword, button, or AI filter…