Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Oh my God, this is all so undignified. Shut up, all of you, SHUT UPPPPPPPP. 010
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Made it through the first episode of Adolescence and I really think TV needs to call a moratorium on the one-shot episode. If your pilot is 65 minutes and you haven’t made any cuts, that’s not a good thing. 110
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Requesting a temporary injunction against the celebrity memoir industry 030
Reposted by RobJoe Reid @joereid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Because as everybody knows, TV ratings work retroactively and viewership can be rescinded based on who ends up winning the awards. 1396
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I’m sticking with Severance for now but it’s the kind of streaming show that sent me back to the ragged, scrappy embrace of daytime soaps a few years back: expensive, deliberate, polished, tweaked, and art-directed to death. 020
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I realize this is true of most TV shows, but the women on Severance are so much more interesting than the men. 020
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025September 5 is one of those movies that’s more impressive for what it doesn’t do (i.e., ladle on a bunch of only-in-hindsight “perspective”) than for what it does (offer a lean, technically seamless reenactment of a situation we journalism majors likely already studied closely in college). 010
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Get one (1) drink in me and listen to me go off about how Julianne Moore’s soap training is a big reason why she’s as great as she is. (The Room Next Door, in which the dialogue is doing a lot of heavy lifting, is evidence of this. She sells it exquisitely.) 020
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I was deeply moved by The Room Next Door *and* I want to see Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in a parody of it. Both things can be true. 1101
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Celebrities don’t actually die in threes but Bob Uecker/David Lynch/Joan Plowright is *quite* the triad. 010
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Surely Melissa Leo has a dartboard with Jamie Lee Curtis’s face on it for stealing all of her grizzled everywoman roles. 040
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025The “inspired by true events” title card at the end of The Girl With The Needle is a real life ruiner, isn’t it? 000
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025One irritation I do have with the end of year platform release is when they all expand at once. For example, The Brutalist, Hard Truths, Room Next Door, Last Showgirl, September 5, and Girl With A Needle all open in Boston today for some reason. 130
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025The incessant “Dry January/kids are California sober now/Fortune 500 execs are microdosing” messaging is really getting oppressive, like a 21st century temperance movement only somehow more annoying. 110
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Everybody’s dunking on that Mangold DGA nod but A Complete Unknown is one of the movies that exceeded my expectations this season—it’s sweeping and extremely well-mounted. Plus of course the guilds go for a movie in which an artist outsmarts the executives and the audience. 010
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Los Angeles is by far my favorite American city to visit—these images are so painful. 000
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025SAG nods goofy af but the one that stopped me in my tracks was Kathy Bates for The Great Lillian Hall over Jessica Lange…who plays the great Lillian Hall. 020
Reposted by Robitsonlyzach @itsonlyzach.bsky.social · 08/01/2025SAG Awards have increasingly become a fun way to see who's the best at sending screeners. 1143
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Awards season was more fun before every contender had a QAnon-style smear narrative attached to them, forged in the Petri dish of illiterate shut-ins known as TikTok. 131
Reposted by RobSteve Holley @steveholley.bsky.social · 07/01/2025“I feel bad for not knowing what’s happening in the news.” Just a reminder that absolutely none of these people “in the news” are entitled to your time, your energy, your emotions and mental bandwidth, or the clicks/views that keep making them all richer. Period. 4559
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025If I was in a very “this really could’ve been a movie” headspace by the end of Severance season 1, should I bother with season 2? 010
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025In the past year, #GH has given us: -Spencer/Esme murder/suey -Gregory fatal heart attack -Jagger shot in the chest -the Baby Irene defenestration -Sam poisoned -Dex stabbed, then poisoned -now Michael bursting into flames Can anyone on this show just, you know, leave town? 061
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025KATHERINE HEIGL FOR POISE KATHERINE HEIGL FOR POISE KATHERINE HEIGL FOR POISE KATHERINE HEIGL FOR POISE KATHERINE HEIGL FOR POISE 010
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The Globes rehashing every single Emmy win from September—if you’re going to be corrupt, you can’t also be boring. 060
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Melissa McCarthy in “Unspeakable: The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey” is my most anticipated pop culture product of 2025. 020
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Timothée/Nardwuar/Lil B discourse is a grounding reminder that there are whole universes of pop culture about which I know nothing. 110
Reposted by RobDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 29/12/2024“Lisa, a guy who has lots of ivory is less likely to hurt Stampy than a guy whose ivory supplies are low” 501372242
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Why does Nosferatu breathe like Brenda Vaccaro in that tampon commercial from the ‘70s 020
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024A barn burner. Read every word. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess... 021
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024You’re telling me 1988 had 5 better supporting actor performances than Hart Bochner in Die Hard? 000
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Mother of God deadline.com/2024/12/ando...deadline.com‘Andor’ Production Reportedly Cost Disney $645M+ For Two Seasons, More Than ‘Rise Of Skywalker’The production cost of 'Andor' Season 2 alone, which a report pegs at $290.9M so far, is more than the production cost of 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' in 2019. 000
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024I remain unconvinced that anyone actually wants a new Superman movie. 140
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Chris Pratt and Keke Palmer in the Monopoly Go! ad—how catastrophic is Hollywood’s production slowdown, really? What aren’t they telling us? 030
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024I need a gif of Diane Ladd swirling a piece of the dry turkey around in her white wine in Christmas Vacation. 040
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024A24 horror take on Miracle On 34th Street but with P. Diddy at Macy’s Herald Square 020
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024My traveling at the holidays anthem youtu.be/G2tW7Izhxck?...youtu.beClassYouTube video by Catherine Zeta-Jones - Topic 120
Reposted by RobScott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The Blake Lively revelations should again highlight that online discourse ≠ real life. Nobody in the real world hated Anne Hathaway, wanted to "boycott Episode VII," took offense at with female-only Wonder Woman screenings, cared about a gay kiss in Lightyear, body-shamed Sydney Sweeney, etc. 2327
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024If Best Actor turns out to be him, Chalamet, Craig, Domingo, and Fiennes when’s the last time the category was that sexy? 030
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Can’t believe cinema perfected the Christmas movie during a 13-month period in the early ‘90s with A Muppet Christmas Carol and The Ref. 020
Reposted by Robpauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 22/12/2024I think the healthiest kids are the ones who get weaned away from television when adolescence sets in. The really scary people are the ones who, once they have kids, just stay home and watch television using the excuse that movies are violent and dirty. (1982) 021
Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024“Vitamin Water is SO New York” may be the most baffling ad campaign of my lifetime, and I was alive for the Chicken Tonight dance. 040
Reposted by RobChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...futurism.comOpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for FreeOpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them. 22062412084
