Picking Nits
Camera rifle past Oscars security; too few handlers around Rachel; Fletcher's absent dad; Rachel never learning of her sister's plot; Frank's morning-after exit; unacknowledged race angle at the Oscars; Rachel playing her own music
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- Getting a camera rifle into the Oscars is impossible; living near the Oscars in Hollywood brought a robot dog bomb check and underground sweeps at Oscars time.
- Working for Kimmel, Oscars-week shutdowns lasted about eight days; some of that is probably post-9/11.
- Rachel should be more of a narcissist diva, never alone with just one assistant.
- Costner pulling a gun on stage should get him shot, but the counterpoint that hysteria might let him get it out ends with "Okay. I don't know," leaving the nit unresolved.
- Fletcher's dad is never mentioned or contacted, when the boy could have been sent to him or his grandparents; a Kevin Federline joke follows.
- We never learn if Rachel found out her sister tried to kill her; a scene of Costner and Bill Cobbs agreeing not to tell her is joked about.
- Frank waking up and leaving after one night with Whitney Houston is fuck-boy behavior; he should have cut contact methodically, and anyone would ride it out for weeks.
- The film should have consulted a Black person on the Academy Awards angle: with Singleton's nomination and an earlier Black actor's win in the 60s but no Black actress winner, Rachel could have said she was making history; the Oscars felt like an afterthought.
- Rachel sitting by her pool listening to her own music is questioned; a rapper friend does exactly that, and one host admits listening to The Rewatchables.