She was definitely very self-centered and immature but that only makes her as shitty as most struggling actors.

In a well-written traditional musical (so excluding sung-through ones like Les Miserables and Hamilton) music numbers are used to express feelings and emotions that the characters couldn’t or wouldn’t express through words alone. Making that part of the actual conceit of the episode and its dramatic fallout was a stroke of brilliance.

Since you only mentioned Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks The Return:

You need to watch the original two seasons of Twin Peaks before you get to either of those. Release order is the definitive order and necessary for narrative and thematic context.

That’s technically a later development added by the Grimms to make it more appealing to the violence-hungry children of the time. Disney’s movie in fact draws from an older version, though they also added plenty to make it more appealing to that generation of children.

If >!Jadzia had been killed!< at the end of Season 5 instead of the end of season 6 I think Ezri would have worked a lot better. Cramming all of that into one season while also trying to wrap up the Dominion War was a mistake, but one they didn’t have a lot of alternatives for if they wanted her to be a full fledged part of the cast.

Of course Rick Berman >!not running Terry Farrel off the show in the first place!< would be the best case scenario but I do like Ezri, just not how much time was devoted to her in the final season.

Though there’s no reference to observances, Easter is a pretty obvious progression from scripture since the Last Supper was a Passover dinner (not a modern Seder, that tradition developed later) and is placed in the year accordingly. This is why its placement in the Gregorian Calendar shifts from year to year, because it is dated from the lunar Hebrew Calendar used by the figures in the story rather than the solar Julian calendar used by the Romans.

Any holiday that always takes place on the same day on a solar calendar is self-evidently not laid out in scripture as a holiday.

Fuck Danny Masterson, but it would be fucking awful to cap off Hyde’s character arc in the original with “Oh he’s in jail now.”

Yeah everything I’ve seen is that he got along with Taika great on the day to day, the Love and Thunder production looks like it was a lot of fun for most of the cast and crew (especially since their kids got to come along and take part in it) possibly to the detriment of the movie.

Hemsworth is explicitly talking about directors who make “masterpieces” but are difficult to deal with day to day. Which seems like the opposite of Love and Thunder.

1950s style gender and relationship dynamics didn’t translate well in the 1970s either. Which is why the musical Grease is a satire of the sort of cultural values expressed by the parents of the contemporary youth and of their hypocrisy. Sandy changing everything about herself to be a better partner for Danny is meant to be seen by the audience as a sad and self destructive thing to do for a relationship. The way they treat sex and pregnancy scares is a shot at adults in the 70s who were railing against promiscuous teenagers while pretending they weren’t exactly the same but with worse education about it. We’re supposed to on some level be disgusted by the characters and their choices by the end of the musical, because it’s a send up of 50s nostalgia rather than an uncritical celebration of it.

Even if your only familiarity with organized crime is movies, Lansky standin Hyman Roth’s role in Godfather II is clearly as a key part of the Italian mafia system, not an outsider making deals with them.

I wonder if this is at all because of the (comparative to the rest of Europe) harmonious coexistence of Jews in Italy between the Resorgimento and the rise of Fascism, the period in which most of the New York Mafia families emigrated and established themselves, and during which many Jews were held up as martyrs and patriots of the Unification struggle.

I’m sorry where the fuck did that come from? I learned it in California where it happened, and it was framed as the story of how the Californian Gold Rush and ensuing immigration led to innovation by those immigrants in creating brands we recognize and value today, like Ghirardelli chocolate and Boudin Sourdough Bread. It’s an immigrant success story and emblematic of the best case scenario of what America has to offer. I’m sorry you don’t think that’s important just because some of the people who wear these pants are shitty, but those people probably aren’t teaching that they were invented by a Jewish immigrant either.

Kola Coca would have that too. That’s the Coca part. It just also had alcohol in it.

For a lot of religions providing a schedule and set of meanings for holidays feasts and festivals is arguably more important to how followers interact with the religion than almost any other factor. Especially in an agricultural society where those holidays and festivals frequently serve to remind people when planting and harvest seasons are beginning and ending, which is why most religions following solar calendars tend to have a few holidays near solstices and equinoxes, and even with lunar or lunar-solar calendars like Hebrew you tend to get fairly close shots to that part of the solar year.

Hope no poor soul reached him on a Monday.

VH-1 did a “Behind the Music” episode on Al once. It was the most boring episode they’ve ever done. The only drama they could mine at all was the brief and overblown Coolio beef.

Yeah he got LASIK, shaved his mustache, and grew his hair out longer (which makes the curves less dense because gravity) before 1999’s Running With Scissors, basically the halfway mark of his career to this point (although releases have of course become less frequent than in the 80s).