It was a small beat but I enjoyed Karen shutting down Dev’s BS about “no titles, everyone has a voice” as a way to pretend he doesn’t call the shots.

No heartwarming look back at the personal life of Bill Wyman?

Obviously it’s her winged sloth. No one was the wiser until it was caught flying an airplane.

That makes a huge difference. The 2015 Secret Wars overall still asks a lot of a new comics reader. But the core Hickman series could have been the definitive Richards vs Doom story to end all stories.

In the end credits teaser, I love that the Nega-Bands effect elicited a “yipe!” from Kamala and Carol crashing through a closet door. That’s on brand for both of them.

For what it’s worth I’m grateful for the Pakistan episodes. It made the story and storytelling much bigger around Kamala’s intimate narrative, adding the weights of history and family legacy, and fleshed out Sana and Mureeba. When we return to New Jersey Kamala’s life, home, and family are that much more worth…

The definitive live action Inhumans depictions was Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. They take their sweet time and the budget shows its strains from time to time, but at least the writing and acting were decent to great. Inhumans added nothing and was just superfluous.

Saladin Ahmed’s Black Bolt mini series is a wonderful trippy read where Blackagar and Absorbing Man wake up on a punitive space prison and together work out how to escape their external and internal captivity. Warren Ellis’s Karnak mini series is a decisive update of the character and makes the missed opportunity of…

When the first The Force Awakens teaser came out, one AVClub comment wrote that his roommate took one look and said “TIEs in atmosphere? No thanks!”

Maryu’s greyed reply is brilliant if it’s intended as satire. But it’s also 100% close to the auto generated troll responses to any reference to Clinton, Tiger King, or Heard to keep us toxic and stupid.

Honest question that I swear is in good faith: why do the headline as “I Can’t Stop Thinking About...”? There’s a story here that could be reported as it is. Whether the author is actually obsessed (which seems unlikely) is beside the point. Is this to imitate the clickbait and Buzzfeed style anti-Heard takes on the…

Jennifer Lawrence is a great actor and she brought a lot to Raven in the first two movies. But her blue makeup didn’t let her emote or project at all.

“War Machine” is an extra suit of Iron Man armor that flies around and explodes things.

Lyrica Okano did an incredible job as Nico. She came across as a teenager feeling powerless and overwhelmed, AND a teenager with a chance to unleash righteous fury. And, in Season 3, that teenager grown up and all too practiced at the sadness and work of being who she is.

Her undercover work in Canada was legendary.

I couldn’t believe the sheer production scale of this episode. Ms. Marvel may be the most cinematic of the Disney+ shows. All the Karachi locations. The final wide shot of the Partition train. Not to mention completely new end credit animations entirely set in Karachi with the new characters instead of Kamala’s family…

Back in 1985 fifteen year old me saw The Seagull at La Jolla Playhouse and was very surprised to have Phoebe Cates on stage as Nina. This was a year after Gremlins. It’s a great role for a young actress with even an ounce of frustration. Six years later she came back (with Jon Lovitz!) as a subtle and affecting Irina…

I’m curious exactly how the lyrics “Rock! Roll! Yeah! Yeah!” are set musically. Those fiends. Children are hearing that!

Thank you for compelling me to look this up.

It would have been more interesting if Graggle was generated by an AI, like a Dall-E for “new Simpsons character.”