This is the lazy reply to anyone who feels a once-great show has started to slip or even completely fallen off the rails. “Wah wah... I still love the show and will always love it no matter what sorts of questionable storytelling choices it makes, or no matter how much the quality has been abandoned, and if you don’t…

These aren’t hour-long episodes, they are three 22-minute episodes of three different shows all scrambled together. Ironically, we got almost no actual Ted Lasso this week! But we got the Coach Nate and Keeley show episodes.

All of these other shows feel superfluous outside of the aspect of “It’s nice just to spend…

Wow.  You’re just so dedicated to whining that you completely ignore every word I write, lol.  This is sadly exactly what I’m talking about.   I’m very happy for you that you’ve made a decision for yourself that is based almost entirely on hyperbole and pearl-clutching and allowing yourself to be swept along by mob…

Well, again, as I was saying, it’s not even about this particular case. I’m against the mob deciding what artwork or what stories should be available to view or read or appreciate. It doesn’t matter if Rowling makes one dollar or $1 billion dollars. That should never be in the discussion of whether or not art should…

Everyone is excitedly OPTIMISTIC about Ahsoka.  This is their opportunity to get Star Wars back on track of maybe kinda sorta unifying the fans into something resembling a net positive.

Yikes! Solo was a total mess. Its heart was in the right place, but almost every sequence fell flat on its face because it just raced through everything so quickly, we didn’t have time to care about anything or anyone, and that’s hard to do because this is Han Solo we’re talking about!
What it should have been all…

Amen! I hope we’re on the backswing of the pendulum of this nadir of critical thinking. I’m not even a fan of Harry Potter or JK Rowling, but I’m rooting for this show to wildly succeed just put an end to the power the shut-down mob thinks they have over media they disagree with.  Let them go find some other industry…

I fully agree that the episode was overlong and bloated. But... the show is no longer being judged as individual episodes. It’s bits of story featuring each character. At the end of the day, we enjoy spending time with the characters and seeing their plotlines creep forward, and that’s good enough. If a sequence is…

I think a lot of it is endemic to (in my opinion) a vast majority of streaming shows today. They have 8-10 episode order, but they really only have a story that covers 3 or 4 episodes. Instead of just telling a killer 3-4 episode story, we get a bloated, meandering 10-episode season with stuff that clearly feels…

But this is how ALL expanded universe stuff is done. It’s people coming along later and spackling in new stuff to fix or smooth out stuff that didn’t make sense before. Star Wars has ZERO planned stories, and that’s going all the way back to the beginning. Star Wars itself was famously saved in the edit room. Empire…

The show is almost entirely cool-in-a-vacuum events and sequences that frustratingly do little to move any of the stories forward.  

Or, if we’re lucky, we don’t have to wait, and it gets reset in the middle of someone else’s show.  

No. It’s actually, in theory, an interesting story of how he got from the Jedi Temple to where Grogu was at the beginning of Mando season 1, episode 1, where he was in the clutches of someone who was going to sell him to the Empire.  There’s a story there.  Grogu was clearly trained (or attempted to be trained) by a…

It wasn’t, but at least it supplied answers to a question we actually had.  “What happened to Grogu?  How did he get to where he was in season one when Mando rescued him?”   For me, the interesting story of Mandalorian is seeing where the Mando/Grogu relationship goes.  I want to see Grogu become a Mandalorian and a…

Yeah, I thought the “fight” scene was the low point of the show so far, and definitely of Grogu’s scenes. You can just feel the story machinations of “How do we work around the fact that he’s a one-foot tall puppet?” The leaping was silly, and not the intended effect of “Wow, Grogu sure is talented!” How many more…

I think I finally figured out what has been frustrating me about Mandalorian almost since the beginning, but especially these last two seasons (Boba Fett and Mando season 3). The story always SEEMS to have a logical next step. Even if we as an audience can’t specifically name what it is we are expecting, there’s an…

You’re absolutely right.  I’d forgotten that.  However, I still maintain that the stakes for this season are the Premier League championship.  It has to be that big.  The FA Cup episode was a mid-season episode that didn’t have stakes larger than the individual episode’s story.  For the finale of this season, which…

I like all of it, except that the FA Cup isn’t a thing the show has set up, and would be confusing to most casual sports fans, especially American ones, who are unaware that unlike North American sports, soccer has a whole swath of cups that teams can win, AND that none of those cups mean a lick as far as winning the…

It’s my new favorite word.  

I should have added that my prediction for Season Four is that Ted does indeed go back to the States... but he takes over coaching the US Men’s National Team! The show will be a dual storyline of Ted and Beard trying to whip the USMNT into shape in time for the World Cup, while Roy and Nate take over coaching AFC…