Crowtee_Robot [he/him, they/them]

This is the most Oscar-ass movie I could imagine. Naturally it’s going to win every award for which it’s nominated.

Yeah. IIRC, gangster movies started as an urban inversion of westerns and as such were a meditation on the closing of the frontier and the contradictions of the US as a project.

One of my favorite aspects of the show is how all the wiseguys are stuck in the same End of History trap as the rest of the US. They sit around the pork store or the club talking about the good ol’ days and gangster movies when their thing was really a force to be reckoned with while they barely run their outfits on stuff like gambling, drugs, and opportunistic theft. But then every time someone from “the good ol’ days” shows up out of prison, they always immediately start fucking everything up for everyone else to the point where they must be dealt with in order to preserve what little action they have left. It’s that veneration and disillusionment of their own mythology that is both darkly funny and poignant about the show and the audience.

There’s some sort of improv corollary to this thesis as well.

That story is apocryphal to the best of my knowledge. The biggest factor was that Jennifer Lien was struggling with some severe mental health situation and was struggling through the grind of TV production by self-medicating. Combine that with sagging ratings, the writers’ inability to figure out what to do with her character, and the inclusion of Jeri Ryan in season 4 as the new sexy character and her removal from the show was all but inevitable. It breaks my heart because Kes deserved better.

Always the correct stance!

Rick Berman resented the young actor who had his own ideas for his character and wanted to collaborate on what Harry’s arc would look like, and as a result Garrett got sidelined probably the soonest and harshest of any of the rest of the cast (besides Kes who was written out for several reasons).

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because even a chicken knows jaywalking shouldn’t be a crime.

It’s going to turn out that the whole show is a live experiment listening to Terrance and Tom lose their minds over a period of several years.

So sorry

The best part is how this isn’t public domain schlock like Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey; this is an officially licensed Disney version of Pooh and friends and it’s directly inspired by two classic survival horror franchises. Now I want more weird stuff like a Peter Pan game that is inspired by Soulsborn games. Give me a 101 Dalmatians grand strategy game. Nothing’s off the table!

Uh, let me drive you mad with fear.

This is how Bernie Sanders can still win.

I used to know someone who worked at the Harry Potter land at Universal, and she got yelled at by her supervisor for taking her costume/uniform off-site even though she left in a GODDAMN AMBULANCE FOR HEAT EXHAUSTION.

Death to IPs. Death to theme parks.

Such a good show cut down too early. I wanted the full story plans. I wanted to see Timon go to occupied Judea and meet Jesus. I wanted the ending where an older Lucius Vorenus commits suicide at Ceasar’s grave. So much potential squashed by ballooning costs and Italian fuckery regarding the use of Cinecittá for filming.

A good podcast about HBO’s Rome is called Raising Standards. One of the hosts is a classical scholar and they frequently have actors, directors, and producers from the show on as guests. They even got the news reader to record the opening. A true Roman podcast for true Romans!

Would’ve been better if he dug him up for it.

Guy probably fancies himself the Will Graham of human trafficking

Plus Wenner himself was accused of sexual assault in 2017 by former employees.

The “Masters” interviewed in the book are:

Dylon, Lennon, Bono, Townsend, Garcia, Jagger, and Springsteen

Lmao.