Yeah, the question of whether he knew the OD would happen threw me. Of course he knew, how else does he have a fake ambulance/EMTs on standby. Read more
I can’t help wondering if the reviewer is unaware that Nathan Fielder himself is deploying a persona? These reviews make a lot more sense if taken from the perspective that “Nathan Fielder is reacting authentically and is not involved in constructing the storylines and that this is just a show about the rehearsals”. Read more
Manuel it’s very interesting reading your reviews because it’s so difficult for me to get into the headspace of someone who is actually horrified by this episode and doesn’t think it’s absolutely brilliant. To give this episode a B, to have essentially given the series to date a B, just means that no matter how much I… Read more
It boggles my mind that some people can watch this and think he is doing any of this flippantly or hasn’t thought about it at all. This episode especially is so deep in multiple layers of absurdity to illustrate it. Read more
I’ll leave it at this for now, because you’ve left a lot in this review to take umbrage with, and I’m too tired to bother with listing it all out: I don’t know how to take criticism of such groundbreaking metafictional art seriously (or even respect it as criticism in the first place) when it doesn’t remotely attempt… Read more
After spending his entire career telling people the goddamn future and nevertheless having to watch them all go merrily skipping into the abyss anyway, he’d earned every inch of that nihilism. He’d earned it ten times over, and I’ll never think less of him for being so bitter near the end of his life. He was decades… Read more
it’s not just the music industry but every white dominant space that Black and non-white folks have to move through. Read more
Also, these characters don’t dabble in socialism. They are affiliated with the Italian Communist Party and embedded in the story is the critique of PCI’s turn away from traditional class struggle toward democratic socialism and electoralism. Read more
It drives me absolutely bonkers that this series is billed as a tale about female friendship. Yes, there is a friendship at the heart of the story but this is a book about political economy, the intersection of class and gender, the role of violence in resisting violent oppression, communitarianism in the face of… Read more
when i first started as an intern at gizmodo no one at any of the other websites spoke to me for 6 months and that’s what i’m going to do to you now Read more
I’ve been supportive of Nancy, and tried to hold off on judgement considering all that she did and has done in her career. It’s easy for us to judge from the outside looking in but to become the first female speaker of the house and get the ACA passed is truly a massive achievement and one we shouldn’t take lightly.… Read more
If in this time where there are literal concentration camps on US soil and people dying in them, that the most important thing that Pelosi and the centrists can come up with is to attack progressives and not actually do *anything* about people literally dying in our literal concentration camps... Fuck them. Primary… Read more
I was born in the early 70s, and I vividly remember looking up trans books in my university card catalog and then hiding in the stacks to clandestinely read and try to understand the feelings I was having. The emergence of the internet made the difficulty of being trans a good bit easier (though it’s certainly still… Read more
Oh man, I remember some of these places. As someone born in the mid-80s, it really felt like the internet was growing up with me, and I remember sites like Susan’s Place as I was first coming to terms with my own gender identity. Of course, it took some more years before I actually went anywhere with it, but still,… Read more