The internet's response? Immediate mockery, especially contrasted with Culkin's reaction—simply posting a photo of himself drinking champagne on a Parisian balcony with "LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO". One approach read as desperate, the other as cool. (7/14)

When Oscar nominations dropped in January, the pattern repeated. Strong released a heartfelt statement about his lifelong devotion to acting alongside a childhood photo of himself outside the 1993 Oscars. (6/14)

🧵 The biggest plot twist in Severance isn't in the show itself: it's that we're paying Apple $9.99/month to critique capitalism while they laugh all the way to the bank. Lumon isn't fictional—we're living it. And I can't stop watching. (1/14)

As Severance Season 2 expands its puzzle box, I've identified four potential futures for the show based on other prestige TV trajectories. The path it chooses will determine whether it becomes a masterpiece or cautionary tale. A thread on narrative evolution and institutional entropy 🧵 (1/10)

Lynch believed that if you walked toward the light with every step, things got brighter. He taught us that negativity was like darkness - you turn on a light and it goes. But he knew too that we needed both. (8/12)

"When you became Denise," he told a character decades later in The Return, "I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die." A line that pierces through time - both a protection and a promise. (7/12)

Remember his comic strip? "The Angriest Dog in the World" - same four panels, same rigid dog, day after day, for a decade. Only the words changed. A meditation on stillness from a man known for moving images. (5/12)

So I made the mistake of finally giving Joker: Folie à Deux a go. On my birthday. This is the best I could come up with.

being in the UK sucks right now because