I mean I’m not asking for them to go full Christian Bale haha. Wouldn’t have minded a real quick aside that “x person passed out from not eating”. Every time I used to fast for Yom Kippur it’d be like 8 hours and I’d start feeling a little light-headed. I think they could’ve thrown in bits and bobs like that to make…

I know it’s theoretically gruesome and taboo, but it felt very YA to me. The metaphysical love triangle with Lottie, the fact that even though the show “says” the girls are starving we don’t really get that feeling from that at all and they all look pretty much the same as they did in the beginning, and the music…

This episode had the series feeling like “True Blood” to me, and I do not mean that as a compliment. Some really silly and contrived stuff along with boring filler and a few taboo moments, carried by a stellar cast. I mostly liked S1 but with S2 the show already feels like it’s spread too thin.

digital editing has been around well over 30 plus years, though. That isn’t really so much of a factor as this seems. It’s cheaper to edit because you don’t have to transfer the film to digital for an NLE, but movies were getting cut digitally back then too.

I honestly, as someone who works in this industry, think it…

The strength of Season 1 was the casting (for me Juliette Lewis is a weak point, but that’s just me). But so far (and I know she’s only been in a couple scenes) the casting of adult Lottie falls really flat to me. She doesn’t seem connected to teen Lottie at all, and teen Lottie’s actress weirdly feels like she has…

I have multiple theories:

Honestly all I ask for rich kids is to be real in their richness and not pretend to be “upper-middle class”, which has been co-opted by the rich to render it meaningless. So I kinda respect this.

The Brian Wilson parody song on Walk Hard is legitimately amazing. They straight up got Van Dyke Parks to write and arrange it.

The Walk Hard soundtrack is flat out amazing, and such a great example of a film getting the genres of music it’s covering. 

...it just may finally be time, in the words of Dwayne Hicks, to call game over, man.

Natalie’s the only adult to me who doesn’t seem connected to the teen version. Not sure if it’s the writing or Juliette Lewis’ acting, but something feels disjointed there and I haven’t connected to adult Natalie like I have teen Natalie (who’s great). 

Sure but I’m saying that doesn’t translate to money for her businesses. The dudes jacking it to her weren’t also buying handbags and fragrances and making her company into a multi-billion dollar venture.

FWIW Paris Hilton’s perfume range(s) alone have brought in $2.5 billion. I’m pretty sure it’s not solely misogynistic heterosexual men buying it.

I was in high school and in addition to “That’s hot” running rampant, there was a pretty hefty subset of girls who styled themselves like mini Hiltons, complete with either fake (or sometimes real) designer handbags (I think IIRC Paris had her own line of handbags among other fashion accessories); you know, the whole…

This is the best take I’ve seen.

Quite literally on the Kardashian front. Kim used to be Paris’ stylist and personal assistant. 

The best part of the first movie was the kids - the storyline with Billy finding his birth mom was actually pretty devastating and reminiscent of the more complex emotional moments that family fare had back in the day. I’m worried that the new movie is going to center the adult versions a bit too much, and the pop…

The South Park guys also wrote the era’s most sympathetic portrayal of Britney Spears in a prescient and disturbing episode around this same time. It’s fine to culturally reappraise someone down the line, but not everyone can be painted with the same brush. Two things are true about Hilton: she was unfairly demonized…

Did AVClub just publish an interesting retrospective essay that isn’t clickbait about some topic-of-the-day?? Does The Herb know you snuck this through?

Great article on a wildly good movie