Emma just said Jason Alexander looks like he’s wearing a Gary Busey skin suit in the Star Trek Voyager episode Think Tank and now I can’t unsee it

watching Happy Gilmore for the first time and...Madison is way funnier than this?

absolutely not a "complain about dogs in public places" guy but seeing a big turd in the middle of busy South Ken Station platform 🙄 sort it the fuck out people

NRW:

kind of shit Howland Reed be up to when there's Ironborn in the Neck

should get GRRM on the line if he's got any ideas, not like he's got anything better on

Can't believe accusing a PhD-MD of lying about being a doctor didn't work

my issues with post-s3 For All Mankind aside, I still respect their hustle of trying to put the entirety of The Americans' supporting cast in space

Or into giant Chinese takeaways

probably the one major Carpenter I'm actually not that precious about & even I'm like hell no lol

wait you're telling me implying someone was a fake doctor because they chose to go into public health rather than clinical practice wasn't treated as a reasonable attack line? I'm shocked

Real fucking cast

FOLKS

NW:

Updated Star Wars ranking post Mando & Grogu (could easily reverse the ranking on 6-8 tbh)

I think TROS is worse but Mandalorian & Grogu may be scamming audiences even more. Feels like they slapped together some unreleased B-roll from the TV show and called it a Star Wars movie. Dire stuff

I like the film a whole bunch but JJ making it a "Resistance" just so he could get the original rebels-imperials dynamic back was so hilariously lazy I had to laugh

NW: getting ready for Blank Check Scorsese season

Awww Krumholtz is on this ER episode. Here he is presumably surprising Carter with a Valentine's Day card. Cute! 😍

Same character for real

NW:

whatever happened to Nick Newport Jr in Parks and Rec. I want the Succession-esque background story for how Jessica Wicks ousted him from the Sweetums inheritance

Imagine for a moment what he could do if he were the prime minister, had a legislative majority, and appointed both the Chancellor and the Culture Secretary.

If you want to really dig into how good this movie was at pre-empting the aesthetic and trends of modern reactionary sentiment the villain says the line "Make Sandford Great Again" In 2007.

Hot Fuzz is about how nice quiet villages are awful and full of bad people

Rise of skywalker the funniest movie of all time. Finn spends the whole movie trying to make a confession of love, then the director said he wanted to tell her he has super powers. The hero and villain kiss at the end and then the company issued a statement that it was platonic

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

just finished the final Wolf Hall book (good), does anyone have any other good recommendations for historical fiction (preferably medievalist)?

Congrats Arsenal. Very happy for your not at all annoying fanbase

The only positive thing about this is that it sort of symbolises the health of cinemas that they feel like they need to shove Mando S4 onto the big screen, as oppose to the era they would cut up a potential Obi-Wan movie to be Disney+ content churn

The Mandalorian and Grogu is like a really long episode of the series — and not one of the better episodes. My review:

watching Ahsoka and it's going great

oh no I didn't realise Bilbo cat boy had gone missing. I just assumed Ellen was posting less on social media 🙁

no one tell Ben from Blank Check but I really did not vibe with Fletch

Reminds me of when Jimmy Fallon did the Secret Policeman's Ball. Although at least in that case they made it part of the joke that Barry from Eastenders didn't have a clue who he was

We have friends everywhere

There is a reason McDonnell generally got a warm response in the city, and it's that for all his reputation as a pugnacious idealogue, he could articulate a theory of growth that ran through government utilities reducing wider costs and freeing up private investment elsewhere which was workable.

Zohran Mamdani becomes one of the first mayors in the US (and among a small handful of prominent US officials generally) to recognize the Nakba — the mass expulsion and forced displacement of 700,000+ Palestinians. Connected directly with a Nakba survivor:

There are worse democrats but he's neither a M4A/GND type ideologue nor an absolute electoral powerhouse, so I'm not sure what there's worth getting excited about on any level

I dislike him but not in any particularly exceptional way, he managed to be somewhat intelligent on Palestine when running in 2020 but then seems to have voluntarily lobotomized himself on the issue while acting as a Biden surrogate, then did another 180 after he Save humiliated himself on Pod Save.

hell yeah, can't wait @shannonandswift.bsky.social

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

#StarTrek #TOS “Might I come aboard and speak to your doctor?”

Leslie Knope may be a cringe lib, but at least she's read Alexis de Tocqueville so she clears most Americans

thought Devil Wears Prada 2 was a decent time. bit like peak MCU in that any issues I had tended to get ironed by how zippy it was

Oh hell yeh. Been without a regular TV podcast for the best part of a decade so this v exciting!