Hot take: S/pn isn’t about two brothers fighting monsters. It’s about two bros fighting American myth & folklore. Which means they fight wendigos & werewolves, but it also means they fight the greatest American myth of all - that success for everyone looks like the American dream
So let me get this straight:
When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.
When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.
Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?
That giant 20,000 acre building over there takes all your fresh water, pollutes the air, raises local temperatures, makes annoying noises all day long, increases your utility bills and provides a whole 14 jobs. That building’s only job is spying on you.
Hackers are utterly incapable of hacking shit that would actually benefit people. Want them to hack the FAFSA to get rid of student loans?? Sorry their too busy hacking cartoon studios and threatening to release something people were already planning on watching
Hard truth…
I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted.
Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely.
They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil.
I assure you.
These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism.
ATLA is a mystery to them.
They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise.
Watching Band of Brothers for the first time in 2026 is wild bc you’ll be watching Easy Company realize they’re about to walk into the mouth of Hell itself without any supplies and then here comes Jimmy Fallon???
Bo Burnham INSIDE astutely identified and predicted basically everything about our currently ascendant oligarch technocracy—which is what the whole movie is really about—but people largely ignored that and interpreted it as being about how quarantine was lonely or something lol
Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.