I get that there is a massive amount of it, but I’ve tried thinking of what has been pushed out, and don’t think we’d really be better off without superhero media. We still get other action and sci-fi movies, and as for TV, look at the history of cop shows - arguably a less rich area in terms of potential stories, yet…

They really should have like one in 256 people get the message “Your information was sent badly - a bunch of your choices were switched and will not be reversed.”

AI becoming sentient isn’t the real problem (and may not even be possible), the real problem is how it is used. There are already complex problematic issues arising (look into COMPAS, or just consider Facebook fake news issues). AI is just another tool, and as is the case for most tools, you can better determine the…

Basically everyone is a product of their time, and Chappelle is no different. He is just an older version of his previous self, and every aging generation takes great offense at the newer generations existing in any way not completely reverent to them. He isn’t the worst of the comedians bemoaning “cancel culture”, he…

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…