This is a fantastic piece and I appreciate how Siede scours the genre to find topical and relevant experiments within romcom history.

In small, measured doses, I enjoy weed. But if I smoke/ingest too much it’s a terrible experience where my mind locks onto a thought and follows it with dogged, unhelpful insistence down an endless spiral of negative, onanistic self-reflection. 

Not even a psychopathic clown terrorizing the city with a series of high-concept clown-themed clown murders would be enough for me to look at this guy and think, “Whew, I’m glad he’s here!”

Does this season address how Butcher seemingly blew up a baby in last seasons finale? Perhaps Homelander saved the kid and they discuss that this season, but even for a character that’s supposed to be a scumbag, setting off a bomb with a kid in the room makes it pretty tough for me to accept him as any kind of…

I know the delay is due to Covid, but I like to think it’s because they decided to retool the art direction so the whole game looks like the Saul Bass-inspired cinematic instead of the very generic look it has now.

Jokes aside, though, this looks pretty rad.

The very ones.

Given the cast, this feels like one of those Netflix shows that already released in Europe and they’re just now releasing here. Only in this case, they’re Americanizing it by changing the names and locations.

I had a similar change of heart with Brad Pitt, whom I didn’t have much opinion on until I saw the Assassination of Jesse James, etc. Robert Pattinson had the benefit of premiering as Cedric Diggory, but his post-Twilight career has been an ideal study in how to artistically cash in on beauty and fame.

This remains one of my top three Coen movies. And while I may not think the film is eclipsed by the soundtrack, it is inseparable, and foundational to the film’s greatness.

O Brother is the movie that completely won me over on George Clooney. And it was because of his total, go for broke Looney Tunes mugging. A character angle that could easily be grating, but he had the confidence to pull it off.

The art deco/Metroplis aesthetic is a nice call-back to the strongest visual design elements of the prequels. It’s a good looking saber.

Purely from a tonsorial standpoint, whoever wins, we lose.

I’ve heard Control’s 1st dlc was pretty uninspired, but maybe this will be better? The name is cool, I just hope they can use these expansions to get really good and weird. If you’re showing the lunar lander, you best be running across some Space Kook-style bad guys.

I thought the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory was cheesy and unremarkable when I was a kid, perhaps because I read the book first and was bothered by the very necessary changes to the movie required of 1970's special effects.

I watched the first five minutes of the show and turned it off. The storytelling may get more nuanced and the characterizations more interesting, but at first, having everyone act like prickly little shits is the most tiresome way to try and convey your toy commercial cartoon is for grown ups.

We get the giant jars of Kalamatas from Costco. At seven bucks, it’s the same price as one of those little vials of olives you get from a co-op or natural food store. So I tend to bathe in the excess.

I like to diffuse any possible accusations of being bourgeois by plating my charcuterie on a kid’s smiley face platter.

I’m mostly talking about the mid-80’s to mid-90’s. And I’d enjoy Vallejo more as fun, pulpy cheesecake if it didn’t subsequently dictate an entire generation of fantasy artists.