44: NBC's Olympic Plans are Cringe, Blink Twice Trailer Vibes, and The Tom Brady Roast
PLUS, Channing Tatum as a believable tech billionaire (lol)
Hihi, this week’s newsletter includes analysis and thoughts about:
The new Blink Twice Trailer from Zoe Kravitz and starring Channing Tatum, that used to be named something very, very different.
NBC’s Olympic plans are…..something?
Tom Brady agreeing to a roast on Netflix, hosted by Kevin Hart. What could go wrong?
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Onto the news (extreme Dak Prescott voice) yeah, here we go!
COMPS:
Kind of looks like if a Tiktok influencer remade Leo’s The Beach. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, though The Beach was a rare Leo misfire, but it does feel like an important reference point.
There’s also vibes of a less subtle and more opulent Get Out.
And the movie I kept coming back to initially was Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
WHAT I LIKED:
The name Slater King. I feel like this name being written into existence and embodied by Channing Tatu almost singlehandedly brought Mario Lopez to relevance (almost).
Haley Joel Osment, I love seeing him get work!
Haley Joel Osment, with a sharpie dong on his head! Some are saying this role and this narrative burden to carry is giving The Sixth Sense.
The line, “I’m having a great time here. But I also have this feeling that I’m like……….not?” I’ll take pithy descriptions of introversion, Alex!
Drug montages!
WHAT I OPPOSITE OF LIKED:
Channing Tatum playing a tech billionaire is asking a lot of us in terms of suspension of disbelief. I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, but it can’t.
The new title. Famously, this movie was originally ‘Pussy Island’ (sorry mom), which def hits a little different now after seeing this trailer. I’m not saying I prefer P-Word Island more than Blink Twice, I’m just saying that perhaps there was more idea meat on that brainstorming bone.
Re: the comps section, this movie feels a lot like Glass Onion which seems to be the superior movie just based on this trailer if only because that movie included Daniel Craig and his Colonel Sanders / Foghorn Leghorn voice. If this movie ends up having Daniel Craig and his Colonel Sander /Foghorn Leghorn voice (or a close composite) I rescind this critique.