Every successful remake/adaptation/etc. I’ve seen has a weirdly specific take on the source material. Which is a risk, sure, but are any of these franchises putting butts in the seat on name recognition alone anymore? Mass markets may not be sophisticated, but no one wants to be bored.

Not a single franchise pictured here where the “super fan” advice wouldn’t just be “fewer women and black people”

And far fewer trench coats than I was expecting, tbh

There’s a lot to unpack in terms of predation & perversion but I also think there’s a thread here to Cornell of the general acceptance of schools as proto-carceral environments. (And, actually, in both contexts predatory perversion and punishment go hand in hand.)

“We’re keeping a list.” Genuine McCarthyism.

So disingenuous to conflate the specific argument about fact-checking debates w/ like your aunt’s FB posts about “lyin’ Donald.” Not being able to lie incessantly actually DID hinder Trump’s debate performance; Vance was “smooth” and “confident”…except when he got flustered about being fact-checked.

I sought out your review of this episode over the weekend because this episode got under my skin so much. Many shows get at media circus and criminal injustice, but I don’t think anyone’s done a better job of contrasting the complexity of truth w/ the system’s utter indifference to it.

Also, the first question out the gate used preemptive strike against another country as a litmus test for supporting Israel—not, say, “How do we end the conflict?”

It’s just…He says mass deportation will solve pretty much everything. Might as well scrawl this under his “plan” reducing carbon emissions.

[Donald Trump voice] it’s terrible, folks