We Have Much To Discuss: Lively vs. Baldoni, Thelma, Severance, J.Lo and K.Cos...

And a poll or two. It was a busy week-plus of vacation!

We hate to be the bearers of old gossip, but a) there’s no ignoring the biggest bombshell drop of the holiday news cycle, which there’s a 99.9 percent chance you already know about but a zero percent chance we’ve gotten to dissect together on account of our holiday hiatus, and b) this story is only just beginning. In sum, on Dec. 20, Blake Lively and her legal team filed a complaint about actor/director/producer Justin Baldoni’s behavior on the set of This Ends With Us, and against the PR team she says helped him wage a smear campaign against her during the film’s promotion. It is a DOOZY — here is the full complaint — and it’s only blown up from there.

There are two strands here being woven together: the spectre of a sprawling, professionally managed online takedown campaign, and the workplace harassment and toxicity allegations. The harassment complaint in full is horrifying, and if this all happened to someone with the size of the megaphone Blake Lively can afford, imagine how bad …