I think we should go back to having regular TVs instead of HD, maybe have one of each for different shows. HD can be for movies or certain prestige shows, but we don’t need sitcoms to be in HD; this is how we get back to 22-episode seasons, not caring about visual fidelity as much.

I think my big problem with The Paper compared with The Office is that the Office’s original thesis was “office life is bad because of management/corporate systems”, and The Paper’s seems to be “journalism is bad now because journalists are all bumbling dumb dumb idiots”

All I’ll say is the first person to sample “few small beers” from OBAA for a song could have a generational party anthem on their hands.

The original Star Wars is a political fantasy of “what if wars had laser swords and spaceships and magic?” Andor is a political fantasy of “what if we actually had effective left wing revolutionary groups opposing fascism?”

It’s funny that Sigourney Weaver’s big sci-fi franchise used to be Alien, at this point there’s been more Alien movies without her than with her, and she’s now in Star Wars, and got adopted by James Cameron for Avatar movies despite him killing her character in the first one

So will Abbott Elementary and Always Sunny do a road trip to Pittsburgh in their next seasons for a 3-way crossover with The Pitt?

Seeing Dan O’Brien accepting an award and and giving a speech at the Emmys is super surreal. Like what do you mean that’s the same guy I used to watch doing funny YouTube videos?

It’s funny how the first season of Andor is technically a massive case of Surf Dracula but doesn’t get any flack for it because it’s so good (and probably because it’s about a guy nobody cared about before the show)

I’m excited for One Battle After Another, but also need someone to make the extremely classy porn parody, One Butthole After Another

I’m sorry why have I never heard that Julian Assange was born in Townsville City, Australia? That’s not a real place, that’s the city from the Powerpuff Girls!

Andor will always be a really funny show on a meta level because of how deftly it has to dance this nuanced examination of fascism and resistance around the main Star Wars plot of “an evil warlock wants to build a death laser the size of the moon”

For All Mankind is in the same boat as Downton Abbey and The West Wing where they’re good shows but have a brand of liberal optimism that feels inherently conservative (the patriarchal 1950’s man & tech billionaire will do the right thing in the end, 90’s America would accept a lesbian president)

Ed Baldwin revealing he speaks Korean in the For All Mankind season 3 finale:

Rewatching Twin Peaks, I have no idea where people get the idea that Dale is a good investigator. His methods are 0% ‘deductive analysis’/‘normal investigation procedures’ and 100% ‘interpreting weird dreams and visions I had’

I’m becoming one of those “I wish I lived in this fictional universe” people who wanted to go to Pandora from Avatar, but for the For All Mankind universe

Getting to season 3 of For All Mankind after watching Superman and suddenly seeing Edi Gathegi:

No joke my company just gave a report where one segment announced “we’re officially Carbon Neutral!” And then without a hint of irony segued into their next segment, “here’s some helpful AI tools you can use!”

Do you think JK Rowling ever read The Wheel of Time, saw that it has an explicit magic system of “there’s Girl Magic and Boy Magic”, and went “damn, I wish I’d thought of that”?

Directors who proved they still had the sauce after getting divorced: - Spielberg - James Cameron - David Lynch - Scorsese - Kubrick Directors who didn’t: - George Lucas -Taika Waititi - Tim Burton Debatable: - Ridley Scott

My new thing is saying all minor conveniences should be ‘shot like a dog’. Guy cuts me off in traffic? He should be shot like a dog. Trip on a curb? Shoot it like a dog. The joke is I don’t think any dogs should be shot

Planning to piss off my wife and the Goodreads community by referring to “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” as ‘Girlboss Mulholland Drive’

If I had a dollar every time an actress on Twin Peaks had a daughter who later went on to be a major character in an early 2010’s sitcom, I’d have 2 dollars, and I have no idea if that’s a lot or a little

Neil Gaiman of it all aside, my issues with the Netflix Sandman adaptation are the same as my issues with the Zach Snyder Watchmen adaptation; the difference between ‘knowing’ the source material and really ‘getting’ the source material.

More than anything Weapons has cemented that Alden Ehrenreich’s career should have blown up after Hail, Caesar!, and really should’ve blown up after Solo, and it’s embarrassing for Hollywood that it didn’t

Seeing Weapons by myself because my wife can’t do scary movies in the theater

You ever think about society in the timeline where Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JK Rowling had died in 2015?

It’s funny how Apple keeps greenlighting shows where the protagonists are super into cinema (The Studio, Your Friends and Neighbors); meanwhile Apple the company is working hard to actively ruin the releases of all their movies

I’m like 15 years too late for this but “Alejandro Rose-Garcia” is actually a much cooler name than “Shakey Graves”

Sometimes I wonder why god gave some of the greatest guitar-playing talents to John Mayer. Not that it’s bad, it’s just like, imagine if Leonardo Da Vinci had insisted on only drawing furry porn

If I had a nickel for every time a superhero movie from July of 2025 cast the main character’s frenemy from a recent Emmy-winning streaming show, but made them unrecognizable with CGI/makeup, I’d have 3 nickels, which is honestly way more than I’d expect

It was actually really dumb that everyone watching Lost 20 years ago complained “why doesn’t Hurley lose weight after being on the island??” but nobody complained “why aren’t these muscular boys losing any muscle mass?” Like do you have any idea how much harder it is to lose fat than muscle?

I do think one of the strongest aspects of the new Superman is that it doesn’t tell you much about the Borovia/Jarhanpur conflict initially, so at first you’re like “oh maybe this is complicated and we shouldn’t get involved”, and then you learn more and realize Superman is right, it is simple

I think we should have a Galactus who’s more like the Vogons from Hitchhiker’s Guide; he doesn’t eat planets because he’s hungry, he’s just a celestial government worker trying to do his job and the earth is in the way of some galactic city planning

I’m okay with Jubilee letting 20 Nazis onto their show but I don’t think they should be allowed to leave after

I’m okay with not finishing shows, movies, albums, games, etc if I don’t like them or get bored. For some reason I refuse to ever not finish a book though

With all the AI obsession now, it’s safe to say the most prescient Rick and Morty episode was the one where Jerry is trapped in a crappy simulation of reality where everything just agrees with him, and he prefers that to actual reality.

Having finally watched Mulholland Drive I can’t believe the only scene I ever see referenced online has nothing to do plot-wise with the rest of the movie

The problem with human interaction is that it’s the only thing keeping me alive and makes me want to kill myself

Can’t believe this attitude is bringing down both Drake and Trump almost within a year

I have finally watched Mulholland Drive, and maybe it’s just because I’m watching it after The Return and Inland Empire but I really didn’t think it was that confusing. Really really good though.

So many media accounts/subredditd on Reddit and Twitter now seem to be trending towards just “describing tropes you like/dislike”. The children yearn for TVTropes.

I can’t help but feel like we’re stagnating culturally when my company introduces 3 new Gen Z hires and some of their favorites listed are Arrested Development, Daft Punk, and Grey’s Anatomy. Those are millennial things, where are the new Gen Z interests?

The funniest scene in a Nolan movie is Inception when Tom Hardy does the “mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger darling”, and pulls out a slightly bigger weapon. Can you not dream up a tank, or a drone strike?

A few years back Joaquin Phoenix missed a golden opportunity to release a line of non-alcoholic drinks called “You Were Never Really Beer”

I feel like everyone talking about whether Denis Villeneuve would be good or bad for Bond is forgetting that there’s at least a 60% chance that Amazon fucks it up and he leaves the project, like Disney did with Edgar Wright on Marvel and Lord & Miller on Star Wars

I can’t believe Joel Kinnaman is Swedish, when he both looks and takes roles like he’s a GI Joe brought to life.

I can never remember what James Urbaniak looks like but my ears do this whenever I’m watching something and hear Doctor Venture (I started watching For All Mankind)

You ever think about how 2/3 of Lost season finales ended with the reveal that John Locke is dead? S3: someone died (we don’t know it’s Locke yet) S4: reveal it was Locke S5: reveal Locke wasn’t resurrected, he’s really dead S6: Locke (and everyone in the alt-timeline) are actually in the afterlife

Before logging in every day you should have to answer “are you on social media because you’re miserable, or are you miserable because you’re on social media?”

Sometimes I still check Twitter and I don’t really get any of the Nazi posts people talk about being unavoidable, but man the people left there are just so miserable about everything, even the ones I mostly agree with, it’s depressing.