Yes, this is the perennial weakness of science fiction and fantasy. The only counterexamples I can think of off the top of my head are Foundation and Empire and The Last Jedi.

Surely we don’t need as accomplished of an actor to play a metal monolith. All he has to do is stand there!

I hope the miniseries is livened up by unseemly anecdotes from the McCracken family black sheep, Phil.

I think they are already subverting that by the fact she has Will as a major protagonist as well. I think it’s more that she’s a lynchpin but not a sole savior. She’s the final piece that completes the puzzle. She’s obviously not doing all this on her own, she earned the support of the bears, her mother and father…

It’s a shame he couldn’t have worked “Sex Dwarf” in there somehow.

REACH OUT AND TOUCH [redacted]

I wondered to myself, can this Ernie Cline fellow Speak & Spell, which is also the name of the album on which the song in question is featured. I gave thought into how I’d rather be like the lead singer that died by auto-erotic asphyxiation than have to read this book. Then it occurred to me, no, that’s the INXS guy,…

ME TOO

Not sure if you are the director or we just watched different shows. This one, the one I watched, was a complete pile of trash. 

Motive was a problem throughout.

This is one of the reasons I watch extended series like THE UNDOING: to discover an actor who is unknown to me just break out with a stunning performance. And Noma Demuzweni knocked it out of the park. Checking her acting bio I found out that she was the actor who caused somewhat of a kerfluffle when she was cast as…

I believe there’s a prisoner that might disagree with the “not a violent person” characterization.  And since it happened in jail, and the guards knew about it, why wasn’t this brought up at trial?  Kinda shoots the “empathetic, gentle man” narrative right to hell, doesn’t it?  But like so many other things in this…

They also both peaked in the 1980s and have been a shell of themselves since 

That sounds like rhe plot if a Woody Allen movie 

but it sure was racist when he called Detective Mendoza “dear boy. No. No it’s not. Sutherland (and his eyebrows) are a senior, likely English educated, art and humanities expert and “dear boy” is not in anyway an ethnic slur and commonly used. My very senior boss uses it all the time when giving me a slight,…

The whole Anne Hathaway Effect is bullshit.  Hating someone for the sake of it is infuriating, especially when its someone who's clearly not a bad person.  

People shit talk her, but I've always liked Ann Hathaway. She's talented, gorgeous, and from this at least, seems to be a decent person.

You might like this interview which talks about that last scene and how it was filmed in a mere half an hour:

I could not disagree more with this review save for how great Nicole Kidman’s performance is This was an A grade onion and with each layer being peeled away I thought the reveals were very much earned. The reviewer’s issue with the physician at the hospital not being able to speak to her is the case against her…