I still feel like the actual rules for Mjolnir are too hazy. There’s no coherent, conventional moral framework under which Thor is an exceptionally moral superhero.

Debicki’s been phenomenal in everything I’ve seen her do. Shame this wasn’t better, but I’m sure she’ll have plenty of better things to come. 

There are movies about groups of poor people like this, but they tend to go up against other poor people. Something like The Warriors, I guess. A bunch of rich people gunning down the poor is inherently going to be bad optics, a little too Death Wish. 

And I’m sure Memento in chronological order is a lot less interesting, doesn’t make it a worse film. 

I think Bradens come off as younger and preppier.

How do you make a beverage less of a club, though? How do you put in fewer obstacles than just “anyone over 21 can buy it at the store”? It’s not like there are gatekeeping nerds hanging out in the beer aisle at Publix. 

Masseduction is definitely my least favorite of her albums. Los Ageless is great, and Pills really works, but other than that I’m indifferent to the album. Although I think Marry Me deserves more love. 

Are there really people out there whose favorite St Vincent album is Strange Mercy? I always thought it was a weaker entry, compared to Actor which is a masterpiece.

No John Cho? Good. What, do you want his daughter to go missing again? New family, new setup, same surprisingly-effective gimmick (even if sometimes the seams are a bit visible, like the funeral streaming service), sounds good to me. 

The pope doesn’t count, that’s a job, not a man. I can’t just say “everyone knows there must be someone in charge of India, so whoever that is is super famous regardless of whether you know who it is”. 

I’m not sure about David and Abraham. They’re B-listers, I couldn’t tell you much of anything about them. But sure, Buddha’s a solid choice. 

But he also says “males”. So even if his language is odd, it’s not sexist. 

I don’t see much of a difference between her episode and the Mad Men blackface scene, in both cases you’re meant to be horrified by the racism of the character in blackface.

Menzies looks unnerving without visible eyebrows. Did Philip not have them, or are they just trying to have him look like Matt Smith?

But if you have to kill the lights it’s not much of an illusion. 

“Sylvestor”?

It always seems weird to me when I see a photo of Zendaya in some high-fashion context, because between Euphoria and Spider-Man the only roles I’ve seen her play are pretty far from fashionable. 

I’d say it’s a little more Hunger Games mixed with the Running Man, in that it’s more of a systemic thing than just one crazy guy on an island. 

I still don’t get what in the trailer is supposed to make the villains look liberal. 

I don’t see the liberal coding. Some of the heroes are southern, but it’s not like the villains are carrying around NPR tote bags or drinking kombucha, they’re just generic “elites”. This doesn’t seem any more “liberals versus conservatives” than the Hunger Games does.