30 minutes!  Who’s even got time for that these days?!

wow you assumed I cared. I meant more about keeping track of all the story lines and characters and if characters and story lines only pop up only ever few years then yes, it is a bother. I rather spend that hour a week doing something else. Sorry, I am a peripheral fan. Did not realize that hyperbole was a criminal…

I stopped watching this series after the second episode. The synopses since then seemed to have been more like “What if the MCU took a bunch of wrong turns and twists of fate and actually sucked?”.

It was also, for only worse, the weakest MCU outing since Thor 2.

the author looks like a white woman who had the option to go into a creative writing program, but she also looks like she could be a maid.  I’d be interested to see how Mike Leigh would cast the part, but it does sound a bit like glam miserabilism to cast somebody as beautiful as Qualley.

You’re probably thinking of Lifetime. Hallmark does zero crime or fatiguing dramas. They do chintzy romcoms and Christmas movies.

Oh, I do. My question is why did Raimi go along with Arad’s dumb-ass request? Was he really going to fire Raimi after his last two movies made a billion dollars? Easy for me to say, I know, but I’d have called that bluff.

Frankly I think the Democrats are so obscenely useless that even if Hillary won, McConnell would have successfully stonewalled every Supreme Court appointment she tried to make and shut down the Senate for four straight years. We are ruled by the people of Kentucky.

I had fully forgotten that Michelle Williams was in the first one (and apparently Jenny Slate?), and now I see they’ve roped in my girl Naomie Harris...

Yeah, the value of Last Week Tonight never struck me as being in conversion, and I don’t think that was ever the goal. The value is in illumination and education on topics that are either horribly under-represented or complex enough that people don’t fully grasp what’s going on. Unlike most other political comedy…

“John Oliver’s deep dives on a topic that are informative yet never less than hilarious”

Agreed. Plus our politics have become legitimately terrifying to the point where very little of it lends itself to comedy anymore. It’s just such a different environment since 2016. During the Bush years there was Stewart and Olbermann and Moyers, and the rest of the media was jingoistic credulous trash. Then the…

Absolutely correct. This medium exists to give people the impression that they are political actors by consuming certain media and having certain opinions.

They left out Hassan Minaj who came up in the Stewart era, and other than Last Week Tonight, which is pretty much the untouchable successor of what Stewart did, was the best of the post Daily show bunch.

Do you really think Disney is going to let the show that helped carry its streaming platform through its first months of existence go that easily? There’s still milk in them titties, my friend, and if they have to, they will kill the cow to get it.

We all agree she is one of the worst actor’s to ever work in star wars, right?

They got me with Sally Hawkins (I’m legally obligated to support anything she’s in). Damn it.

Fingers crossed for a Max Rebo’s Band show.

Somewhere out there, every actor who had a bit role in any of the movies or cartoons are hoping they too get a series based  on their character.

I’m not sure I’ll enjoy actually watching this, but I’m glad it exists. The weird grotesquely compelling nature of some early stop-motion work is something I responded to really strongly as a child, and this sounds fascinating.