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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Apr 11

Oh my God, this is all so undignified. Shut up, all of you, SHUT UPPPPPPPP.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Mar 18

The 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.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Mar 18

Made 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.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 24

Requesting a temporary injunction against the celebrity memoir industry

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Joe Reid @joereid.bsky.social · Jan 24

Because as everybody knows, TV ratings work retroactively and viewership can be rescinded based on who ends up winning the awards.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 24

I’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.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 24

I saw it in a theater and I wouldn’t call myself a hater but I didn’t like it much.

Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 24

I realize this is true of most TV shows, but the women on Severance are so much more interesting than the men.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 20

*bangs gavel*

I’ve seen enough.

Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 20

September 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).

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 20

I knew for sure the architecture critics and architects would hate it!

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 19

Ooh I know I know

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 19

Get 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.)

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 19

I 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.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 18

Celebrities don’t actually die in threes but Bob Uecker/David Lynch/Joan Plowright is *quite* the triad.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 17

Timothée Chalamet stuns as Julia Houston in Smash

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 15

Losing my mind at this exchange

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 15

People are being awfully quick to judge on this one.

Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 12

Surely Melissa Leo has a dartboard with Jamie Lee Curtis’s face on it for stealing all of her grizzled everywoman roles.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 11

The “inspired by true events” title card at the end of The Girl With The Needle is a real life ruiner, isn’t it?

Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

It’s listed at the Common exclusively for now (with a prerecorded cast Q&A for some reason)?

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

One 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.

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 9

“Dry January,” or how to market your $14 mocktail menu to people who can’t go to sleep without gummies

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Rob @robwatson.bsky.social · Jan 9

The 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.

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