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 · 18/03/2025The oner is effective when there’s a ton of highly choreographed activity moving in and out of the frame. In Adolescence, you’re watching some grim cop refill their coffee and then walk down a drab hallway to their desk. It saps the tension rather than creating it. 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Reid @joereid.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Because as everybody knows, TV ratings work retroactively and viewership can be rescinded based on who ends up winning the awards. 1396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 saw it in a theater and I wouldn’t call myself a hater but I didn’t like it much. 000
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 · 20/01/2025I knew for sure the architecture critics and architects would hate it! 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 · 10/01/2025It’s listed at the Common exclusively for now (with a prerecorded cast Q&A for some reason)? 100
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 · 09/01/2025“Dry January,” or how to market your $14 mocktail menu to people who can’t go to sleep without gummies 040
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 · 08/01/2025I can think of at least three people (all women) from that year who would probably be receiving death threats in this climate. 010
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 · 25/12/2024Did anyone else hear a bunch of groans from family about how Hollywood is out of ideas after that trailer aired during the Steelers game? 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
