Scott Tobias

Chicago

Film and TV Writer at Freelance

Film/TV writer. Co-host, @NextPicturePod. Author of The Reveal (@MoviesReveal) w/@kphipps3000. "I'm an expert in all things that nature abhors"—Mark Eitzel

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The Rehearsal Season-Premiere Recap: Up in the Air

3 days ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Rehearsal Gotta Have Fun Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** About halfway through this first episode of the second season of The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder sits down to make an important phone call. It’s his learned hypothesis that the cause of many airplane crashes is a breakdown in communication between the captain and the co-pilot.
The Righteous Gemstones Recap: The Mouth of God, My Dude

3 days ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Righteous Gemstones For Jealousy is the Rage of a Man Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** “What the hell are you doing here?” “Me? I’m merely shitting.” “You came all the way to Kelvin’s house to take a shit?” “Yeah, dude. I was driving near here and I started turtle-heading. What do you want me to do?” There are levels to the comedy in The Righteous Gemstones. This exchange between Jesse and Judy on tonight’s episode is obviously hilarious on the surface.
The Killer Inside Me: 'A History of Violence' at 20

1 week ago | thereveal.substack.com | Scott Tobias

One of the fundamental ironies of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver is that Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), the alienated New York cabbie whose sociopathy leads to inevitable violence, doesn’t care who he kills. His first target is a politician whose ideology is lost on him—he’s a one-issue voter and that issue is “wiping the scum off the streets”—but whose campaign staff happens to include Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), the woman who refused to keep seeing him after their first date.
The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Love Isn’t Always On Time

1 week ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Righteous Gemstones Interlude IV Season 4 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Seeing the end of Lori’s relationship with Cobb explains what brought her back into the Gemstones’ orbit.
Marty at 70: the underdog best-picture winner remains hard to resist

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Scott Tobias

Ernest Borgnine had the sort of face that suggested he was never young – or, at the very least, that he always looked older than he was. In truth, Borgnine didn’t get his start as a screen actor until his early-to-mid 30s, having spent his young adulthood serving in the navy after high school and re-enlisting after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
the underdog best-picture winner remains hard to resist

1 week ago | msn.com | Scott Tobias

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The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Teenjus Saves

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Righteous Gemstones You Shall Remember Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** With “Interlude IV,” the show’s mid-season (or, in this case, slightly past mid-season) gearshift on the horizon, tonight’s episode of The Righteous Gemstones has to do a lot of table-setting for the final stretch, which might account for why it’s a shade less inspired than usual.
The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Ancestral Family Vacation Home

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Righteous Gemstones He Goeth Before You Into Galilee Season 4 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** It would be an insult to the writers and craftspeople behind this episode of The Righteous Gemstones merely to describe the cold open as Baby Billy waterskiing in the nude, a kind of sequel to his casual drawer-dropping after the telethon rehearsal in the season’s second episode.
The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Masters of Rips

1 month ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Righteous Gemstones To Grieve Like the Rest of Men Who Have No Hope Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** After the storm that opens this week’s episode of The Righteous Gemstones — and prompts a Keefe monologue on the devil’s “evil rain piss” that requires its own space to unpack — we discover that Kelvin’s childhood treehouse has been so damaged that the Gemstones’ head groundskeeper has set to work demolishing it.
The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Wasting Away in Margaritaville

1 month ago | vulture.com | Scott Tobias

The Righteous Gemstones You Hurled Me Into the Very Heart of the Seas Season 4 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** There’s no better song choice to close this emotionally turbulent and spectacularly vulgar episode than Pet Shop Boys’ “It’s a Sin,” a synth-pop classic from 1987 that at once serves the disco-era grotesquerie of the Aimee-Leigh Give-A-Thon inside the Gemstone megachurch and underlines Eli Gemstone’s late-life urge to sow his wild oats.