If this show doesn’t try to replicate the character personalities / relationships from the original series and continue to cast good actors like this, I could be interested. Generally agree that a new version of The Office is unnecessary but that doesn’t mean it’ll be bad.

I’m pretty much done playing online games with random people with audio / messaging on.

Obra Dinn is an amazing game. If you haven’t played it, The Case of the Golden Idol is a game that has a similar gameplay mechanic (solving mysteries based on a still image of a murder) that is also very, very good (and Golden Idol is getting a sequel later this year).

I think last season the international competitors said that the shopping was unique to the US version. I don’t always mind it - I like it when they do stuff like the Quickfire and throw the contestants into a local farmer’s market or specialty store. But agree that the Whole Foods trips do nothing for the show at this…

The chefs this season are just really disappointing so far - there are maybe two to three chefs that seem like they should be vying for Top Chef. There are always a few chefs who seem to have issues with basic things like cooking meat correctly or balancing spices but it seems like it’s 80%+ of the contestants making…

Honestly I don’t think either thing is an issue. Kristen has been very solid as host and I think it’s great that she brings her own experiences to the show. And Wisconsin is no worse than some of the other cities the show has been in. The issue is that the chefs just plain aren’t up to snuff compared to past seasons.

My pick for this would be Gargoyles - Weisman had so many other ideas of where to take the series or spinoffs of the series and I’d watch all of it. I’d settle for Spider-Man TAS being revived though as I enjoyed that show more than X-Men as a kid.

Tarantino has a ton of ideas that he has backed off from - there’s an entire Wikipedia article about unproduced ideas of his. Maybe it is the pressure of making his final movie but it could also just be that the idea he had wasn’t working.

Never played any of the games but watched as I am a huge Goggins fan and Jonathan Nolan still has a lot of goodwill with me from Person of Interest. Finished the season today - thoroughly enjoyed it. Really impressed with Ella Purnell as she was great and IMO outshone Goggins a bit.

I thought the show was uneven but had potential. All of the actors in the 60s were great and Kurt Russell was fun too. The modern day actors weren’t as great but there’s clearly talent there as Anna Sawai is killing it on Shogun right now.

It’s rare I say this but I really did not enjoy this episode much at all. I disliked the choice to skip the quickfire to show a bunch of architecture. I felt like trying to connect that architecture to the elimination challenge felt hollow and didn’t work, and worse didn’t seem to inspire the chefs to cook good food.…

It’s not always a bottom three, especially for team challenges, but I can’t recall another time. From having read Tom’s blog posts from the early seasons, they seem to often know one person or team is way worse than others but the show is edited to make it seem like multiple people / teams did equally as bad to keep…

Are you referring to when he says he doesn’t have to save Ra’s from the burning train that Ra’s himself caused? Or does he say something more broadly? It’s been years since I watched so don’t remember any other broad comment about not helping people.

Ah yea I’d agree with you on Interstellar - the ending falls a bit flat. I also didn’t like the stuff with Matt Damon that preceded the black hole communication scene. The first two-thirds of the movie are great though.

I honestly don’t know what you mean - I don’t remember any sort of message like that at the end of Inception. The ending is (spoiler tagging just in case) Cobb revealing he had used inception to convince his wife to leave a prior dream, which led to her suicide and him being on lam, and Cobb deciding to try to stay…

The actor has said in interviews he never had interest in returning once his character got the boot. And honestly, I never saw an issue with it. In real life, some people move away and you never see or talk to them again. I can think of a handful of people I worked with for the first 3-4 years of my career, some who I…

I agree on the third movie - I’ve seen it 4- 5 times over the years and each time I think I like it less because of how lazy and clunky big portions of it are. I still like the portrayals of Bane and Catwoman though. TDK trilogy generally did an excellent job casting with the only blemish being Rachel having two…

Didn’t realize AV Club was still covering Top Chef and caught up on the new season this week. Really like the new format to make Quickfires all money challenges and immunity based on elimination challenges - simple change that gets rid of the possibility of chefs having nothing to cook for and doing next to nothing on…

Like what Mike Flanagan did when The Midnight Club was released.

Good riddance.