Ah, ol’ Grimey.

I agree with the ‘meh’. I toughed it out through S1, but I finally gave up 3 episodes into S2.

Godzilla vs. Kong Is The Best Monster Movie Ever. C-

Yeah there’s a biggish name actress coming to the show, according to the press releases, so maybe there’s yet another train or who knows.

...”mixed in with a main storyline stuck on repeat with no forward momentum”

If I was being catty, and I'll gladly go there, I would lay some of the blame at the feet of the hyphenate. Very, very few actor-directors avoid self-indulgence. Kudos in this case because it was co-directed, but at the end of the day your lead should not also direct. (Nor should your writer, to repeat a frequent…

I was hoping for a: “Hey, Philipe. I’m Barry. Now lets you and I go back in time and undo you killing that guy with the stabby playing cards. Okay?”

The other minor laughable moment was Iris’s story and the support group.

I think I woulda dug a Crowley appearance like that, and I was honestly never that big of a fan. I’m figuring we didn’t get to see everyone for a final time because of the pandemic. Freaking sucks....like everything else about the pandemic.

There are so many characters that I wish could’ve made one last stop to say their goodbyes.

I agree with your analysis of Kinnaman vs. Mackie, and the gap between their portrayals of Kovach lies at the heart of what alienated a lot of potential watchers. If you didn’t like Kinnaman, you probably didn’t care for the show enough to tune in for season 2. If you liked Kinnaman, you probably tuned into season 2,…

Come to Daddy has been one of my favorite recent finds. Elijah Wood is great, and the film bounces from humor to violence to menace to dread to excitement very well. I definitely recommend folks go into it without spoilers.

X-Men comics, oddly, followed the same rule when they faced off against Dracula. (Because of course they’ve faced off against Dracula.)

I wouldn’t call King a romantic, in either the capital-R or small-r sense of the term, but he does take seriously the small-p, small-l power of love. It’s a running theme in his works that what succeeds in the end isn’t individuals, so much as communities and brotherhoods. Whether you talk the Loser’s Club in It,…

This. I thought they did a great job of showing us why Billy turned out the way he did without excusing his behavior. El being able to reach him through the memory of his mother was a nice call back to Jonathan, Joyce, and Mike using memories to reach Will. 

You’ve just put the idea for a David Tenant, Michael Sheen, & Jon Hamm anthology series in my head (possibly including Neil Gaiman writing)...and I don’t know whether to praise your genius or sulk at the unlikeliness this actually happens.

And “Big Little Lies” and on and on

And “Orange is the New Black”

I think Gaiman committing to making sure it’s just a one off miniseries is great, for all the reasons you say but also more generally this thing of doing shows which are book adaptations and then keeping them going beyond the book a la Handmaid’s Tale and Game of Thrones is ridiculous and has got to stop. 

But the bigger question is whether this Gabriel is a Zoe or a Zelda.