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Looking forward to Doctor Strange somehow meddling with the fabric of the multiverse and suddenly all Kangs look like John David Washington or someone like that

Oh, they absolutely are going to try. They wanted him to succeed Mourinho IIRC and unsurprisingly he picked Bayern instead. This time around I imagine it'll be the same thing but with Real.

Yeah, it's an anthology show. They just keep changing the setting each season.

He definitely isn't. Getting rid of him and replacing him with someone else isn't going to solve what's broken at Spurs. That being said, is it the players who have insisted on not using any subs for 75 minutes and then when they finally do it's Lucas Moura?

UPDATE: Violette AC had so many VISA issues that they had to sign players from an NPSL team on loan. Even with that they had only three players on the bench, and had to rely on their backup keeper. In spite of that, they held Austin FC to only two goals meaning they have advanced on aggregate. CCL rules.

Didn't even have to win CCL a second time, baby, work smarter not harder.

Perfect! No more distractions from a couple months of soul-crushing malaise ending in finishing sixth.

what a night for CCL

How have Austin managed to commit two of the most brutal own goals I've seen in a while in just over two weeks?

Unless it's specifically set somewhere outside of New York and is kind of a fish out of water deal, not having Foggy and Karen there is a huge minus for me. Especially Foggy, given that unlike Karen nearly every era of Daredevil in the comics still has Foggy as a very present character. I'd much sooner have them back than Jon Bernthal if it was a one or the other deal (which it obviously isn't). Also the season being eighteen episodes long... boy, that's a big ask given how rarely Marvel TV shows justify their length.

Spurs have to focus on losing Champions League first actually, that one's not settled yet.

Spurs are absolutely going to give up a goal on a stupid defensive slip-up and go out here. It's one of those games.

IIRC the idea is to go straight to PKs if the match ends in a draw so I don't think this idea even does that. It's just "let's get more games in there for Apple," I think.

The deluxe edition of Cracker Island with the bonus tracks has been put up on streaming and they definitely give me a bit of what I was missing on the main album. Best of all, after 20+ years Del tha Funkee Homosapien has finally guested on a Gorillaz track again and it has that "here's a short weird blast of energy" feeling that most of the older Gorillaz albums usually have one or two tracks of.

Yeah, that series is great. The Nice House on the Lake is another really good Tynion book as well.

Sounders won 4-0 Also in "MLS is back" news can we talk about how absurd the playoff format is this year?

OL Reign won tonight too! (it was a pre-season friendly)

The era of peak TV seems like it's pretty close to done so I'm glad they got a Party Down revival in under the wire. First episode was fun, a little atypical because they had to do so much recapping for where the characters are a decade after season 2 but it works.

I disagree on the Gorillaz album but I also think that almost by design it's a little too glossy for its own good. On a first listen it pretty much just completely washed over me leaving very little impression but the second time around I was really into the back half. When "Skinny Ape" was released on its own -- a bizarre decision, as were a lot of the decisions on the album's rollout -- I felt like the sudden shift in energy was a little sudden and unearned but with "Tarantula" and "Tormenta" coming directly before it it really works for me. That's kind of how Gorillaz usually works for me, I still remember going "that's it?" to both the self-titled and Demon Days back when. I would say almost as a byproduct of there being as many Gorillaz albums in the last five years as there were in the first ten there's a lot more overlap now. It's led to certain things I really like -- as a live band they're great now, probably a byproduct of actually being able to keep a lot of the same people together without like a five year break -- but also a real desire to see the next album get away from this kind of increasingly sun-drenched feeling. On the plus side for me there's no hard skips in the way the first three albums had for me but there's also nothing that just gets lodged in my brain for a week straight the way all of those albums have, it's more of an album I'd want to have on during specific circumstances. EDIT: also I'm listening to the Lil Yachty album for a second time. I guess I feel a little similarly about it that I'm enjoying it as a start to finish thing but not really going "oh shit, I love this specific song" (maybe "drives ME crazy!"), though it's definitely doing that type of album better than Cracker Island does. EDIT II: and speaking of "drives ME crazy!", hilarious that even now rappers who were born in the mid-to-late '90s are dropping Ted DiBiase references.

Steven Yeun has been cast in Thunderbolts. No announcement as to the character he's playing but apparently it's a significant one.

re: MODOK

Huh! Weird movie. I don't think it's a bottom-rung MCU film but I get where the overall negative critical response was, I think stuff like Love and Thunder (which I feel very comfortable in saying is a bottom-five MCU movie for me) has a clear constituency where I don't know if this one does. There are long stretches where I'm into it and then something weird happens and I'm thrown out of it for a bit, in some ways it feels like Peyton Reed's obvious love of absurdist/anti-humor kind of bleeds into how most scenes that end with a joke play and it's an odd fit (though I don't really know where that one review excerpt gets "dour" from). Definitely think that if people go in with the expectation that this one is going to feel like the last two Ant-Man films, where part of the charm is how comparatively low-stakes it is to other MCU films, they'll be kind of disappointed. (Though as a Kang delivery device, which is obviously its main job, it definitely works. Jonathan Majors is great.)

as good as blatant fanservice gets

It's going to be very funny when we get to the 11th and allegedly final one of these movies and the final big bad turns out to be that trucker with the shotgun that gave the crew such a hard time in the first one.

Watching the whole Fast series was one of my favorite little peak pandemic watchthroughs. Just the most spectacularly, unrepentantly dumb franchises of all time.