And apparently people are finally calling Pablo Picasso an asshole.
9 Likes
Some places, maybe. But not in New York.
6 Likes
Tulip vs. God on Preacher this week 
1 Like
Watching Condor, loosely based on Three Days of the Condor. It uses standard action beats with time to develop characters. My one problem with it is that everyone is young, good-looking, and the same. I had to pause and rewind to tell if an assassin and a future girl-friend werenāt the same person. I could tell because the eyebrows were different.
7 Likes
Iāve been watching (out of the corner of my eye) Elementary and Sneaky Pete as Iām painting, because the solve-along-with-us stories donāt require much brainpower to process. That, and I am getting a kick out of seeing regulars from other canceled series in new roles - Dexter, The Wire, etc.
I love playing Character Actor Old Maid.
6 Likes
Just finished the three episodes of āA Very British Scandalā about Jeremy Thorpe. A rather lined and grizzled Hugh Grant is fabulous as Thorpe ā not that I know anything about the real one, but he fills the role to bursting with character. Great production, and great writing by Russell T. Davies of Dr Who fame. 
4 Likes
2 Likes
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Funny, smart, and well-acted. I love the late 50ās style, including the vivid colors, like early Technicolor. The writing is stellar.
4 Likes
Iām re-watching Withnail & I. First time Iāve watched it since you-know-who got elected. The perfect lines pile up as quick as they ever have, but somehow itās not as funny as usual.
I think itās all the bits where one says something like āIām fuckedā and the other one says āwe all areā. 'Cos we all are.
6 Likes
I watched Chappaquiddick, and then rewatched All the Presidentās Men today without even mentally connecting them to the summit meeting. APM is still the awesome movie I remember, and gee ā so many great actors from that movie are already gone or aged out of the industry.
ETA: I also want to say, one of the things I love so much about APM is how the filmmakers managed a natural-sounding, overlapping conversational style without it being an unintelligible mess. Richard Donner and Robert Altman could have taken lessons from Pakula.
5 Likes
I took my now wife to this on our first date at college!
Talk about a romantic movie . . . 
6 Likes
Love it. From the writer/director of Gilmore Girls.
3 Likes
Somebody gets fridged in Episode 08 of Cloak and Dagger.
The writers are definitely commenting on the trope. Very meta. It looks almost exactly like the death of Alex in Green Lantern, except for one thing.
2 Likes
If Iām reading this right, itās Quatermass and the Pit, except American. Michael PeƱa starring moves it up the list for me.
2 Likes
I rewatched every episode of Steven Universe while my spouse watched it for the first time. Unfortunately one of the big holy shit moments was already spoiled for her.
And then she kind of got deeply into the music from the show and played it a lot for several days. (This is a good thing, because now there are about 20 songs stuck in my head instead of just the opening theme. The songwriting is really pretty brilliant in places.)
And we were talking about a couple of things and couldnāt remember exactly what happened in one little detail. And weāve got an unknown number of weeks before the next Stevenbomb that finishes season 5ā¦ and her favorite anime are on hiatus. So she decided she wanted to rewatch the whole thing again to hunt for foreshadowing (thereās a lot of it), and here I am seeing it again for the third time.
(I think the only other series Iāve seen all of more than once is Firefly, and that almost doesnāt count.)
4 Likes
+1 for Steven Universe. Mrs Cynical and I are about halfway through season 4 and itās absolutely one of my favourite things ever.
A friend of ours declared us his daughterās godparents not too long ago. As a pair of cynical, socialist atheists, we were tickled but tried to decline, saying that we couldnāt possibly be godparents because God is dead and his daughter has to choose her own path in life.
He laughed and said that was exactly why he wanted us to be godparents, which, again, was flattering but he steadfastly refuses my advice to cut out the Disney bullshit and force-feed his daughter nothing but Steven Universe until sheās at least college age.
As a godparent, do I have any kind of legal recourse to sue? 
6 Likes
I think you have to bring your concerns to your local preacher of cynical, socialist, God-is-dead atheism, who will put pressure on them through the neighbourhood atheist congregation.
6 Likes
Iāve already written a non-existent letter to the purely imaginary head of my disparate flock of non-believers but I have yet to receive a response.
Do you think I should follow up or does my belief in nihilism rule that out?
8 Likes
Oh, you should definitely follow up. If your purely imaginary faith leader isnāt willing to act on behalf of his unknowing followers, he should be struck down by the empty pantheon of gods that he professes his lack of belief in.
Also: if you have a belief in nihilism, I think youāre doing nihilism wrong. 
7 Likes
Finally got through Sense8! What a great show. I just wish that they could have had a final season instead of just a 2 and a half hour movie to wrap up the storyline.
7 Likes