Lena Waithe talking to Amy Poehler about Couples Therapy on Showtime – this is extremely important!

Rewatch podcasts are a big genre and I get it, I used to love watching DVDs with the commentary. But it can lead to some issues – Tori Spelling and Jenni Garth hosted 90210MG and Spelling “abruptly” quit. Sofia Bush and Hilarie Burton-Morgan hosted a One Tree Hill podcast and something clearly happened there. And sometimes these podcasts kick up new issues, like Ben Savage ignoring the Boy Meets World cast. OK I’m no expert on this but I see both sides here – can you imagine having to spend hours and hours talking about a job you had as a teenager?

Are the reviews good? No. Did the storytelling justify another season? Also no. Is this cast having fun spending Apple’s money? Yes.

Remember last year when everyone was calling famous men rodent boyfriends? Well move over rats, the forehead curl is the new status symbol for internet boyfriends.

My favourite part of the fantastic final season of Hacks was Ava talking to the Patagonia vest guy about AI. What the writing captured so perfectly was the way it is being pushed as “inevitable” – that we are helpless against it so we may as well embrace it. That’s what we are sold constantly – AI girlfriends! AI parenting! AI movies! But all these things suck and are widely regarded as sucking. Now it’s the AI face. We’ve already gone through this, with the Instagram face. Is this a real thing, or another way we are being sold on the inevitability of something.

 

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