Every person I’ve ever seen talk about Narcos: Mexico actively dislikes Isabella, not sure where this narrative is coming from. 

The DNA test was a bad idea handled as badly as possible. If she didn’t take the test, then no matter what anyone says she can’t be proven wrong. But by taking the test she’s not only demonstrating that she’s been wrong all this time, she’s perpetuating a racist system in and of itself, blood quantum. Only a fool…

Her steps are horrible, though. If someone wants single payer, then when they see a candidate say “first we’ll pass a public option, then after the midterms which my party will probably lose we’ll begin to fight for single payer” they think that person either has no idea what they’re doing or no commitment to their…

What might? Stressing her bread-and-butter message—calling out our corporate overlords and billionaires who assume they have the power to influence the choices available to the rest of us, including the one currently trying to glide into the White House on a trail of cold hard cash.

We do actually get a description of the monster, though.

She won Best New Artist in 2008. The Kanye thing was 2009. For her to have been a thing for this long inherently means she has to be about the age she is. 

A whole documentary that basically amounts to her saying “Hey, don’t be a bigot”? Maybe if she had more interesting political views, was at more risk, or had suffered more for it that would be interesting, like the Dixie Chicks or Sinead O’Connor, but as is this seems crushingly tepid. 

I think before they announced the Roth thing I would agree with you, but at this point his scope seems wider.

Eh, it’s a nice experience. You might not have the resources to set up hotpot at home, you might not have an apartment that can really have company over, the restaurant can offer a variety of products that would be a real pain to prepare yourself. 

Sure, but he’s also very familiar with life for people with backgrounds radically different from his own, and could draw on actual history for it either way. I just can’t think of an argument for Simon to be badly suited for a project like this that wouldn’t also disqualify him from making The Wire. 

He’s already adapting a Philip Roth alternate history book into an HBO series, so I think he’s willing to tackle this sort of thing. 

How does a history of examining race mean he wouldn’t make another show that does it? 

I’d watch it if David Simon were writing. 

Palpatine presumably had at least one teacher, it make much more sense than “oh, by the way, he’s alive again”. 

So, I don’t know much about the Bible, but is there anything inherently interesting about Mary other than “got pregnant weirdly” and “had a peculiar baby shower”? 

I think you could say Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is a populist movie of sorts. 

I think I assumed he was a murderer who happened to rescue a child rather than a child-rescuer who happened to murder some people, but I guess either way is plausible. 

It’s especially a shame because she’s in a million things these days, it wouldn’t surprise me if she legitimately earned a nomination soon .

Isn’t he a low-rent hitman? 

Brutally murdering people is also that guy’s day job, to be fair.