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Do we know how Nacho got into "the business" and what his goals are, what he's been plotting out for his personal endgame?
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 9:55 AM on May 17, 2017

A few speculations:

* The mysterious woman Chuck met on the beach, and who killed Scott, is Magda (where's she been?) or Jane's cousin Catalina

* Jorge is going to die in some tragic manner, thus keeping Alba single

* Fabian will get super attached to Jane and propose to her in a super public and embarrassing fashion, possibly when she's about to win an award for her book
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 10:00 AM on May 15, 2017

The actress who plays Lina, Diane Guerrero, is an anti-deportation activist.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 10:34 AM on May 15, 2017

Maybe the narrator can end up with Fabian!

(When I was just getting into this show, I said to a friend that Rogelio was my favorite character. My friend said, "Rogelio is my second favorite character after the narrator." I said "yes you are right, me too.")
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:00 PM on May 16, 2017

I saw this tweet saying the most recent episode included web scraping, and would love to know more about the level of technical detail SV went into on that...
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 9:48 AM on May 15, 2017

Saw this last night. Some thoughts:

* Scary, funny, and well-paced. The audience I saw it with was laughing aloud especially at the race-related things white characters said to Chris -- the father's "so great to learn more about other cultures" line, the art dealer's "now I don't truck with that sort of thing myself" line near the end, etc. And -- as Peele discusses -- yeah, audience members yelled "Get out! Run!" especially once Chris… [more]
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 1:03 PM on February 26, 2017

Oh right, white people seeing the movie might identify with Rose at the start.

Themed cocktails.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 1:28 PM on February 26, 2017

From The Ringer interviewing Peele:

Fennessey: The decision to not have Chris kill Rose at the end seemed very specific as well. What was the thinking behind that, and was it ever different?

Peele: Yeah. I had every version of the script. To me, the one that we used is the right one. I was questioned about it, in the making. I want to stick with my guns here because the audience thinks they want that in the moment. I don’t… [more]
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:50 AM on March 13, 2017

Thanks, olya! I found what looks like a transcript of the whole episode.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 10:52 AM on April 17, 2017

So the opening skit is a Forrest Gump reference through and through, and at the end it has a crossover with The Help, and then when Sessions keeps adding individual people who also met with the Russians, I think that's a reference to Steve Martin's character in The Jerk talking about the ashtray and the paddle game and saying "that's all I need. I don't need one other thing" and adding item after item. I thought that was a nice touch.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 8:14 AM on March 16, 2017

I knew I would enjoy this movie, and I did!

Did anyone else watching this see the emphasis on Katherine's difficulties getting to a restroom she was allowed to use, and infer that filmmakers intend for the viewer to carry this lesson over when considering current transphobic legislation around public restrooms? I recognize that I might be insensitive here in suggesting the analogy, and would of course welcome correction...
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 9:07 AM on January 9, 2017

I saw this a few nights ago in New York City and it was just a super fun 128 minutes. Starts with a big giant old-school musical number with beautiful audacious dancing and an audacious choice of location! Bickering man & woman dancing together and coming to nonverbally understand each other in a semi-natural park setting like Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse did in The Band Wagon! Approximately no villains! Super fun dialogue and arguments that feel real! Passionate… [more]
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:48 AM on December 15, 2016

Alia Shawkat plays Hamilton and Plaza plays Burr; Shawkat's casting as Hamilton is especially rich since she came to prominence in Arrested Development opposite Michael Cera, who portrayed Hamilton in the very first Drunk History web video.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:42 AM on November 30, 2016

Awesome movie, great songs, love that the only real villains are the Kakamora and the crab Tamatoa, love that everyone assumes Moana will be powerful and the only question is how, love that there's no romance, love the grandmother-granddaughter relationship, loved the animation style virtuosity especially in "You're Welcome". And I'm a brown woman (of South Indian descent, not Polynesian) and it was so wonderful to see this film completely filled… [more]
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 5:32 AM on November 29, 2016

Te Vaka posted the lyrics from "We Know the Way", including translation of the Tokelauan verses into English.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 5:50 AM on November 29, 2016

Just saw this a couple days ago.

There are limits to how much you can do to fix a movie about a archetypal White Savior, Orientalism Flavor(tm) character, so I wasn't expecting much on that front.

I was hoping Marvel would create a switcheroo along the lines of Iron Man 3. Disappointed they didn't take that approach.

Dr. Strange is the anti-Captain America: a jerk who never stops… [more]
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 5:46 AM on November 27, 2016

A few links a friend shared with me:

McKinnon in an SNL ensemble performing the song "(Do It On My) Twin Bed"

More SNL: McKinnon as Angela Merkel on "Weekend Update"

Indie web comedy: McKinnon in the series "Vag Magazine" which satirizes a certain type of feminist magazine

In interview gifs: this sneeze
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 12:55 PM on July 18, 2016

Oooh, thanks for that link, komara! A few more: McKinnon's impression of Justin Bieber, the song "First Got Horny 2 U", and "This Is Not A Feminist Song" which I particularly wish I'd noticed when it first came out earlier this year.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 2:17 PM on July 18, 2016

really fun, touching Holtzmann fanfic
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 11:14 AM on July 20, 2016

I just read a bunch of Ross-narrated Black Panther comics over the last day, and let me advise you that your interest in comics-Ross is going to correlate with how much you enjoyed Josh Lyman as a character on The West Wing. If you found yourself wondering "why are we at all interested in the doings of this mediocre white guy?" during Lyman-centric West Wing episodes then you may feel similarly about Everett K. Ross as the… [more]
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:38 PM on May 11, 2016

I mean, I know an hour-long policy debate about superhero oversight was never going to happen, but it's kind of what I wanted.

yasaman if there's any chance you're going to WisCon later this month then that would be nice because I'd love to meet the person who thought the exact same thing as me on this topic. (Also I sort of want a version of Star Trek: The Next Generation that is entirely meetings in the conference room.)
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:40 PM on May 11, 2016

yasaman, heads-up, Keith R.A. DeCandido's Articles of the Federation novel thinks it can be a cross between Star Trek and The West Wing but fails at being wonky and having awesome banter. So do not be fooled and think you have found the thing we want! It is fool's gold.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:21 AM on May 13, 2016

And I shall keep this in mind in case I am ever in LA -- likewise for you in case you visit New York City someday.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:22 AM on May 13, 2016

Now I have seen Channing Tatum dance in Magic Mike XXL and in Hail, Caesar!.

I want to go back and rewatch this, and rewatch Sullivan's Travels to compare and contrast their defenses of the film industry.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 8:39 PM on February 7, 2016

It was SO SWEET! I loved that! Somewhere around the middle of the movie, I realized that there are practically no villains, and that no one had died or been maimed! If you knew a ten-year-old who hated gore but was preternaturally hip to HUAC, you could take her to this movie.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 12:33 PM on February 8, 2016

I came in prepared to dislike the lack of people of color. (I am Indian-American.) And then I didn't mind. I don't know why. I'm going to re-watch it and that's one of the things I'm going to watch for, is my own reaction at its super whiteness. (Current hypothesis: the TV I've been watching most in the last several weeks is Twin Peaks and Orphan Black, both of which have pretty white casts, so I didn't notice contrast, as I would have if this had come… [more]
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 7:39 AM on February 9, 2016

I have not even ever watched Legend of Korra and just THINKING about this episode of Song Exploder makes me tear up.
posted to FanFare by brainwane at 12:46 PM on July 9, 2015