dude wants to be like common people! What a laugh!

The Neverending Story 2

People go through shit and and grow, or don’t grow, as individuals and in their relationships to each other whilst trying to make it in an extremely cutthroat industry. That’s what happens. That kinda thing can be extremely compelling if the characters and situations are well-written, which IMO they are. This episode…

Show: Displays “Every Second Counts” constantly.
Also Show: takes its time with characters, who are starting to realize (to varying degrees) what really matters to them.

Everyone else: MOVE FASTER PLEASE.

I think I may love this season even more than S2 when I look back on it. It’s not afraid to take its time and it…

We should have a team-up article, My Series of Violent Flops

Tortoise Media, which as I write this is the only source for this story, is a far right podcast strongly tied to Boris Johnson, and best known for screaming about trans people. Neil Gaiman has been hugely critical of Johnson ever since he came onto the public scene, and is currently doing multiple projects with strong…

You mean “Steel Hammerhands”?

Dude’s talking as if public forgiveness is a switch that someone somewhere just needs to flick. The public will forgive people if they feel like they deserve to be forgiven. And that’s a piece of piss for a celebrity, just throw a bunch of cash at some PR douchebags and they’ll plant stories and organise benefits and…

I never understand how people can just fast forward scenes with characters they don’t like. You didn’t watch the show!

The Lottery and How To Cook for Forty People

Hell yeah. Great to see more old AV Club features and writers return, and what a return for Rabin and My Year of Flops. Caught Madame Web once it hit Netflix (like a smart person) and this movie is hilarious and fascinatingly bizarre. Hard disagree with the linked AVC review from its release, it IS in the so bad it’s…

Her style worked well for the reluctant hero character in this weird movie though. I found her legitimately (and mostly intentionally) funny in this.

It’s Rabin! Now bring back Sean O’Neil, Tasha Robinson, and Zodiac Motherfucker!

Probably minority opinion: The nepo baby issue is overrated. The last name gets you the interview, you get yourself the job. And she’s absolutely right that the expectations are higher.

Except that the CW’s 58-year-old audience was watching the CW!  Clearly they (we) liked that programming, even if it was ostensibly targeted at a younger audience.  Rather than stick with what drew us to the network, they’re going to give us the same crap we could have watched elsewhere if we had wanted to.

Shout out, of course, to Collateral, partially about whether passively observing other people’s lives makes you complicit in them, even as you distance yourself from your own. Or, at the very least, that’s what Cruise’s Vincent projects onto Foxx’s Max to get his way.

What about Carmy’s behavior prior to the show made it seem especially surprising? Because as far as I’m concerned he is exactly the kind of guy to have an out loud tantrum while locked in a freezer.

Kudos to whoever made sure the list goes directly from How to Have Sex to Hundreds of Beavers.

“Most Morally bankrupt place in the US.”

I didn’t care for Luca as much as others did, but I genuinely believe that the only reason Turning Red is not in the tier of classic Pixar is solely due to the pandemic. It’s emotionally rich like IO/IO2 and silly and all about pretty universal things without skimping on the specificity of its main characters. It gets…