Fellow writers/directors/producers: It is vitally important not only to secure the ladder behind you while you ascend, but also to make sure there are many women on it as well. Mentorship without strings is essential and there are so few real opportunities for women...because of this exact problem.

The first minute of this got me GOOD 😆

This is the quote he's referring to and damned if every one of us who's worked in traditional tv prior to the streaming era isn't silently screaming in frustration right now. TV worked perfectly well before everyone tried to become GoT

That's not even me saying I *like* the sound of it, it's essentially weaponizing "Millennial Entitlement" as a political identity. But it would work.

Whether it's true or fair or even deliverable; "America made a promise of _____ to you, it was delayed/denied, but that denial stops NOW and you're getting what you're owed" would be a *powerful* message for any figure to run on if they can find a way to do so.

The other, unspoken, half of the "Morning again in America" pitch was "This was the way TV/movies told you like was supposed to be when you were young, 'something' kept it from you, but NOW we're back on track and you're finallly going to get it!"

Well, for one thing, I didn't use a TV show that never resembled anything close to the actual city it was supposedly set in as the point of reference by accident 😉 Nobody really wants to go back to a reality. They want their memories and dreams to come forward to them.

Lives were changed. You just had to be there.

One of the best actors of her generation. Easily one of the best comedians of all time. As much Catherine O’Hara as we got, it was nowhere near enough.

Goddammit

I know that the popular reference is "Her job was to kill the program" and there's likely some truth in it; but the bigger truism generally is that thus far the Ellisons are actually REALLY BAD at just "running a media company," too.

I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”

Obviously, it happened that way because people couldn't avoid derailing into the tired fake argument about "Video game violence!" instead of the very REAL and meaningful argument about propaganda and messaging. Oliver North played himself in a 'CALL OF DUTY' game. Remember that?

It's ancient history now, but there WERE game critics at the very *beginning* of the generational changeover of "grey/brown military FPS like Call of Duty" becoming THE dominant gaming genre in the 2000s saying "This will have a specific bad ripple effect" and it was widely shouted down. Oh well.

I dunno if BlueSky engagement is getting more sustainable or not, but if mentioning those two things will get the numbers jumping for my show(s) I'm willing to ask because *I* could certainly use both 👍 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A gofundme for a friend and their Shelby, if you are able 🙏 gofund.me/b843726dc

They’re coming after cities a tenth of the size, with ten times as many men, and THEY ARE FAILING. They have only succeeded in uniting every single person here against. They cannot win

Traffic is (starting) to pick up on the new episode, but reminder again our ability to make these is very much proportionate to how much people "want" them so all views and shares remain deeply appreciated 🙏 youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...

Upper Deck has announced that they have acquired the Harry Potter license for a series of trading cards. They have not yet said that they will be using this license for games, and we urge them to refrain from doing so, to help keep gaming a welcoming environment.

Boosting this because it deserves more eyes on it. Bob's great, and this video's a fine example of why. He covers an interesting bit of Hollywood history with ramifications beyond its own moment, AND manages to tie it back into modern concerns about how we value art (and artists).

As I somewhat expected 🤷‍♂️ The Algorithm does NOT love a video essay about 100 year-old cowboy movies that doesn't frontload the present-day relativity 🙄 So if anyone wants to help this one find its way to the sources, outlets, forums etc that will boost it we'd be grateful youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...

I'm struggling to pin down WHY season 2 of Fallout isn't doing much for me (it's fine, I'm just not overly enthused). Could be, the novelty of a Fallout TV show has worn off and the annoyances of streaming-era TV have risen to the surface. Stuff with the Brotherhood's fun, though.

If you think/recognize that my generation conducted itself shamefully with how we received the Prequels? Recognize at least the POSSIBILITY that you are doing the same thing with at least *some* of what "Star Wars" has released between then and now. Because it rhymes 😉

Sigh. Guys, I've been MORE than ready for a "Let's honestly reappraise the Prequels and how GenX treated George Lucas about them" discussion for a long time now; but it's going to be an intellectually dishonest circle-jerk if we're ONLY going to do it in the context of "DISNEY ERA SUCKS" Be better

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Elon ends up exactly in the spot where Internet Freeze Peach Bros ALWAYS do. Amazing how that keeps happening literally every single time.

yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production

The studio announced it had formed a union, joining CWA Canada, mere weeks ago.

TO BE CLEAR! I agree that 'Top Gun: Maverick' was good! But "Endlessly recycling pop-nostalgia with only glancing regard or outright contempt for the passage of time or a changing world is GOOD because Immortal Space Pope reassures me about MY mortality!" isn't a sustainable ethos.

I know "Glup Shitto" is a fun word to say and it sounds smart/obvious to drag creatives re: "So out of ideas you're making a movie out of ____!" [WhatsHISstory.GIF] but it's worth remembering that almost the entire MCU was built on IP *nobody* gave a sh-- about except Hulk and Spider-Man 🤷‍♂️

from someone who was in school for the beginning of the "war on terror," please. please please please. talk to teenagers in your life about not joining the us military. about not letting themselves be groomed by recruiters in schools. they're going to want soldiers, and they always start young.

grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.

"The documented record does not show a political party with a corruption problem. It shows a criminal organization using political power as its operating mechanism. The politics exist to enable the crime. The crime funds the politics."

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Palantir. Sauron. CyberDyne. Blackrock. Mr Beast Inc. Cerberus. Blackwater. Anduril. Citizen. Citadel. Gilead. Bain Capital. Darktrace. Oracle. Umbra.

I noticed whenever a show/movie decides to have these quiet, introspective moments like in Eternals, The Acolyte, or even Andor, that’s when people decide to call it “slow” or poorly written. It’s like no, you’ve just conditioned yourself to see action moments as the only valid thing.

Happy Nichelle Nichols’s birthday to all who celebrate!

“Lol.”? They’re fucking pairing your face up with crimes against humanity! Get mad! Take a stand! Do something other than disappoint us for once!

I always forget that The Thin Man (one of the greatest films ever made) is technically a Christmas movie.

I see a lot of people complaining that Pluribus is slow and boring. This is what TV and movies used to be like before Netflix changed the law requiring characters to explain the plot in the first 15 minutes of runtime.

This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).

Today was the 2nd time a German physician asked me what I think of Hillbilly Elegy and cause it made him kinda admire J.D. Vance and it just fortifies my believe that STEM people should take basic humanities classes

Merry Christmas from the Narvaez family! <3 (Art: @gaelfox.bsky.social)

happy crimus

Violent Night's still great, y'all.

Play it if you want, just don't pretend you're unaware that JK has openly admitted the money from stuff like this goes toward stripping trans people of their human rights.

Wake me up when consoles have a big plastic Pikachu slapped on the side again.

Worth adding here that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by government contracts and subsidies, and so this really amounts to embezzling taxpayer funds to cover up the losses from his stupid idiot boxes.

Friends, take heart and know that whatever profession you have chosen to pursue in life you are more qualified and more competent at it than Weiss is as the head of CBS News.