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The projected second entry in James Gunn's new DC cinematic universe, starring Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) as Kara Zor-El. Based off a very popular miniseries of the same name, written by Tom King, which is basically True Grit with Supergirl as Rooster.

I would say Ivan was both well-written and well-cast to be a superficially amusing little twerp.

Again, there's no rule that one of the spots will always go to Jason (it's not always the third spot that he gets, sometimes it's the second). You simply always want to maximize your allocation and options; as well, this is a nationalistic sport, three men means you show the flag more. The US now gets three spots at the next Olympics and next Worlds, and there's a whole season to determine who gets to go. For another scenario, while he's been remarkably durable, Ilia's good health is not guaranteed. What if your reliable superstar can't go next year? Then you really need as many shots at keeping your spots as possible. You might find yourself down to one. They've never trained together or anything like that. They see each other at major events and are booked on some of the same shows, but I don't think there's more to it than that. Kaori does have conversational English, from what I understand, though you seldom see her use it in interviews.

No, it's simply a matter that nobody has stepped up to be a reliable presence. If there are two better skaters for those two spots, let them show it. There's a whole most-of-a-season to do it. And if they don't, then why shouldn't Jason have it? Lots of people enjoy competing and skating, and he clearly does. Fumie Suguri kept competing in Japan even when she couldn't qualify for nationals anymore.

Three spots isn't just about maximizing medal chances. We don't know what the podium at 2026 U.S. Nationals will look like. If a couple of the younger guys enjoy real breakout seasons and make the podium alongside Ilia, whoops, you can't send them both to the Olympics and Worlds because the US lost/didn't qualify its third spots this year because you didn't send Jason to 2025 Worlds. He finished eighth (and fifth the past two years). I really don't see how that doesn't count as competitive. Likely to make the podium? No. But Worlds is never just about the guys likely to make the podium (and honestly, he wasn't actually that far off the podium, he was 12 back of the bronze medalist, and that was with an iffy short program about 13 points below his personal best). He's 30 years old. At this point he's not going to be adding new technical content.

Kathryn Hahn's costuming scene-to-scene promises to be a highlight of this show.

At the end of this season I look forward to doing a ranking of all the fake movies based on how much I would want to see them in real life; so far this episode's Greta Lee period queer romance is #1.

Now if you really want to take complicated rules, you can look at the dance event, where there are 19 Olympic spots awarded today but 20 teams make the free dance. So you'd assume based on that that it would be the first nineteen, but in fact it isn't, because the 20th-place dance was the third Canadian team, and because Gilles & Poirier and Lajoie & Lagha placed high enjoy to qualify three spots (2+7 = 9, needed to add up to 13 or less), the third Canadian spot is secured as long as Fabbri & Ayer made the free, which they did. So the team that doesn't qualify is the Australians, Harris & Chan, who finished nineteenth. Fear & Gibson claim Britain's first World medal in dance (or in any discipline) since 1984. Gilles & Poirier are now the third-most-decorated Canadian team at Worlds, behind Virtue & Moir and Bourne & Kraatz. Chock & Bates now have solo possession of the record for most World titles for a US dance team, breaking the tie with Davis & White.

The actress playing Young Melissa must be thrilled she now has guaranteed employment for the rest of the show.

Alicia & Paul, Canada's third team, were sitting in likely 21st place going into the final two groups, which would mean we'd have to go to China to secure a third Olympic spot, but then there were two outright disaster performances in the penultimate group that brought them safely in (and in 19th place, at that). Feel bad for Allison & Saulius, but they should be able to qualify via Beijing without anything special. And they allowed the top Finnish team into the free, which means Finland still has at least a crack at getting two Olympic spots. Charlene & Marco keeping those garish costumes the whole season was a crime.

They didn't want a surprise win, they voted for the person they thought was the best. Madison had already won BAFTA, she was clearly in the race going into the ceremony.

That doesn't seem logistically problematic. Vacation exists.

I don't know why Ratliff is so worried. All he has to do is flatter Trump on social media to get the investigation shut down.

No, it won the two awards it was expected to win. It wasn't the frontrunner in any other category.