I keep hoping she’ll get some decent film roles under her belt, and the Tubman biopic looks kind of mediocre so maybe this’ll be good. 

I love her first three albums, but My Woman just left me completely cold, and Lark really didn’t appeal to me as a single. It’s like she just reached a point where she made a conscious choice to stop making the types of songs I liked her for. 

Yang’s not wrong about Trump successfully capitalizing on the anger of workers whose jobs were outsourced. Sure, he had no actual feasible plan to get those jobs back, but he still at least partially ran on it.

It being an obvious question to ask doesn’t mean it’s a good question. The DKR shooting didn’t happen because of Heath Ledger’s Joker, that was just the movie he chose to attack. There’s nothing about this film in particular that makes it reasonable to act like it’ll inspire violence. 

Critics started this, but how many of the people writing articles like this have seen it?

What exactly is the argument? That the Joker movie will drive people to kill, but only to kill people who are gathered to watch that film? I don’t think the people I see condemning it are suggesting that.

Sparked, maybe, but it’s taken on a life of its own, pushed by people who haven’t seen it, discussed by people who have no idea whether the original questions and reviews had any merit. If I have to weigh up the odds of “this movie is legitimately encouraging dangerous views” versus “this movie is portraying a…

There’s a million stories out there about unstable people being violent, but no one’s picketing at Netflix because they think Mindhunter is going to encourage serial killers, and if the complaint is about realism and hearing motives then a show about the backstories of real serial killers would be ground zero for it.…

Not all discussion is good. To talk about the impact and message of the film before anyone has actually seen it is laughable, and you can criticize any film if you assume it’s encouraging people to act like clearly villainous characters. It’s like campaigning against Fight Club because Tyler Durden has unhealthy views…

I do have to wonder how much anyone actually cares, versus how much people think they can wring out of it for thinkpieces. “A man does terrible things for realistic reasons” describes, what, a quarter of all movies? The Joker talking points feel arbitrary. 

“Phillips argued that “outrage” has become “a commodity,”- I mean, it is. News organizations get money from attention. Why do you think Fox spends so much airtime on the Jussie Smollett case, or whether Starbucks cups are sufficiently pro-Christmas? It’s not meaningful or important, but it makes some people angry and…

It’s not a great plan, but it’s a bad plan in a way that was basically already established. Plus, it’s not like Anakin knew he had living children, or ever went back to see his family. 

Given how they’re currently reacting to all the whistleblower stuff? Clearly not. 

Eh. It’s already established that Luke has family on Tatooine, so inevitably a Vader origin has to feature Tatooine. 

The show being hackneyed doesn’t mean the premise is. 

I’m still pro-snitching, assuming the thing you’re snitching on is something like murder and racketeering rather than just “sometimes he smokes pot” or “that college kid is drinking”. Seems weird that “you should help people cover up their crimes” is such a mainstream POV.

Self-limiting? Maybe, although presumably if they ever do become citizens they’ll have other problems. But I wouldn’t call it hacky. 

Some people say the Kaling episode felt off deliberately, I’m not sure, but either way it was odd. The Wade Boggs one was their least interesting so far. The escape room one was maybe the least interesting “time to see how bigoted the gang is” episode in the show, and the premise is aggressively nonsensical (the…

The last season only had maybe 2-3.5 good episodes (I could definitely understand if someone loved the finale, but it wasn’t really what I want from Sunny), hoping I like the new one more. The #metoo episode was classic, though. 

I can picture it, I just don’t see it working. It’s a little too “middle schoolers wearing the props at a birthday photo booth” for my tastes.