That actually has a rational explanation believe it or not. Nic wasn’t making trash because he didn’t know it was trash or because he was just insanely greedy — he owed tons of money to the IRS when his tax-cheating schemes failed and was taking any offer that paid well just to clear his debts. In an interview about…

I like the season in general but I don’t think the longer episodes are helping. They make watching each episode feel like a chore (even though I do enjoy myself while watching them). I feel like having it be 13 normal-length episodes would have been just fine.

I mean I agree, especially since all of these series are very flawed in their own ways. My only argument for them would be that they focus on characters that conceivably wouldn’t get their own movies, but for whatever calculation disney/marvel makes they can get their own mini series. I hated all the Wanda/Vision…

This is a fun season in ways that were missing or lesser in S2-3, almost as much so as the first. I look forward to it closing out strong.

This was a ton of fun, and what’s better, this actually felt like a self-contained episode rather than just the first 15% of a three-hour movie, like most of the other Marvel live-action shows have been. There was setup, conflict, resolution, arcs, character development, yadda yadda. I’m hoping the rest of the series…

Kind of seems like you missed the point of this piece.

There are a lot of amazing burns in this review, but:

“Consequently, long-abused fans of the franchise are treated to a meandering retread of the earlier installments’ greatest hits, along with a handful of Spielberg homages peppered in as a vivid reminder of exactly who Trevorrow isn’t as a filmmaker.”

I instinctively…

If only there were a website where we could read more of the opinions of AA Dowd

Aside from the first one they all kind of blur together. I do remember after JP2 realizing for the first time that when ostensibly intelligent characters do uncharacteristically stupid shit for no reason, it’s because the filmmakers fucked up in some way.

Today I learned there’s a Fatal Attraction tv series.  Ugh.

Which sucks because the man was a great heel and has the exact type of magnetism that can make Black Adam beloved even as he’s doing the worst shit. Fingers crossed.

It’s refreshing and empowering to finally see some positive media representation for a people as maligned, mischaracterized and misunderstood as people from New Jersey.

How would an NFT do any of that?  Are addicts going to not abuse a drug because someone, somewhere has a JPEG of an invoice that’s attached to a blockchain?  A thief breaks into a CVS, sees the bottle of opiates, but doesn’t steal them because there’s a warning that there’s a JPEG of an invoice on the blockchain?  Why…

Think I’d find this news sad if Season 2 wasn’t so bloated and directionless. Now I’m worried that if Season 3 is the last one, the episodes will somehow be even longer! Maybe even throw in a couple extra episodes again that feel superfluous? Who knows!

No more “vanity projects” like letting Martin Scorsese make one of the best movies in years. We’ve got to save money! BTW, each new episode of Stranger Things is 73 hours long.

I mean isn’t Netflix’s entire business model just a corporate Amex card?

I think this show is asking some much bigger questions than who is good and who is bad. The closer the show parallels the false narratives we tell ourselves the more absurd the show becomes and the more Sally and Barry push back from what we thought we knew. We allow our veterans to be abused after war by the system,…

They did that last week with the integration of the beignet shop, too. Hank eats a beignet within the first few minutes of the episode.

I think Cote is right that the basic point is to show the corrupting influence of Barry on the people around him.