richieadler

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Funny, in my 30s I didn't feel old 😄

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Yesterday I re-watched Copycat. Part of the suspense fell on the main character not having a cell phone and the would-be killer cutting the land line.

It felt... weird.

And yes, it was old 😢

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

"Rules for thee, not for me" and all that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Read https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/ and learn something.

Your comment reveals you don't have a clue how science works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It isn't. What are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

They are showing their true selves because they're not receiving social censure or they do care about it and they dismiss it as "the woke mind virus".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I guess some value being kept women over everything else. More so if their minds are polluted by religion.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

That article is reason enough to like the guy, if one didn't like him before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It took a while to capture my attention as Season 1 did, but, as you say, it would have been a mistake to drop the series. Every season is different, every season is brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I stopped watching Parenthood when something reminded me that Erika Christensen is a Scientologist.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

TV shows in the US are criticized for that.

You can do a fun experiment to notice this plainly. Watch the first season of Broadchurch (brilliant British series). Every person is a believable, next-door looking person. Even the proverbial beautiful woman of the town is played by Jodie Whittaker, who is beautiful but not stereotypically so. The main character is David Tennant, who is attractive but quirky looking, and his partner is Olivia Colman, talented and normal looking. She's perfect to play a cop who aspires to advance in her career but hasn't been able to. And her character is magistrally played.

Now watch the only season of the USian remake, Gracepoint.

Tennant is the only actor returning in that version. His partner is Anna Gunn, for crying out loud. She's stereotypically gorgeous, she looks more like a former model that like a career cop. The "proverbial beautiful woman of the town" looks like a porcelain doll. (And her husband is from a token minority, another posturing you won't see so clumsily done in a British series. They are more naturally varied in casting.) After seeing Broadchurch, all the cast of Gracepoint look like molded plastic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Your body is 40. You're still 12.

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