IMO, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Wire are three shows where the best seasons are all S4. The Shield I would argue S5 is the best one. Justified it’s either S2 with the Bennetts or S4 with the mystery (although S3 is no slouch).

IMO it’s not about it feeling fresh or not, Love and Thunder is just a poorly written and directed movie that leaned into the worst aspects of Ragnarok. It had interesting subplots with Jane’s battle with cancer and Gorr’s anger at the gods but both took a backseat to unnecessary and, frankly, annoying humor like the…

Wolverine and the X-Men was a really good adaptation that juggled a ton of characters and aimed for big stories. It’s a real shame it got cancelled after only one season, was really looking forward to Age of Apocalypse being adapted. And that show also gives me pause on naming a best ever adaptation this early.

That’s why I added that last sentence in - the rumors have been that Paramount is looking to be acquired or to merge with another company and their CEO is about to get ousted. Paramount+ has been a huge financial failure and they don’t have the subscriber count that other companies do.

I’m a huge fan of Odenkirk and everything he has done (and was a big fan of Mr. Show and the short-lived follow-up on Netflix so I enjoy his pairings with David Cross). But I don’t know that he’s a huge star. Better Call Saul never got a huge audience even though it was well-reviewed and liked for six seasons. Lucky…

Sure but what’s your point? That Sorkin shouldn’t make a movie about the role of Facebook and social media in extreme political views and unrest because he’s doing right by his shareholders?

Not sure if it counts because the follow-ups weren’t movies but Wet Hot American Summer had a prequel and sequel in TV form on Netflix that came out 10+ years after the movie (both were one-season each). And they were both pretty great.

This show was so painfully awkward at times, I really can’t imagine even wanting to binge it. I enjoyed it overall but getting it in smaller doses definitely helped.

Pretty crazy that 14 of the 25 cast members listed here were part of the 2005 cast and 4 of those 14 (Hader, Wiig, Samberg, and Sudekis) premiered on the show that year.

Honestly, I don’t understand the value in the IP here. I love the classic movie and it still holds up really well. But that’s because it’s a really well crafted movie with great characters, good humor, and a solid mystery. You don’t need the Clue characters to do that. The Knives Out movies and The Afterparty prove…

Quite oppositely, I’ve found lately that I’ve forgotten a lot of the artists and songs that I liked as a teenager because I do try to keep up with newer music. My friend put on Jimmy Eat World the other day and it was like a rush of memories were unlocked from deep inside my brain and hit me all at once. And I still…

There was a screenplay - it didn’t have any dialogue in it as the credited creators / writers (Myrick and Sanchez) had always planned for the actors to improv on it. There was a backstory to the Blair Witch legend that they created too. They also were the ones who came up with the idea to make the film as found…

The Deadpool movies already had far superior versions of Colossus and Juggernaut to the X-Men movies.

I’m the opposite - I know I’m going to watch the movie due to the past two movies and from the banter between Deadpool and Wolverine alone. Don’t need any aspect of the plot to be spoiled.

They aren’t credited as the writers of the movie though and they didn’t create the story. I know they improvised the dialogue but the directors came up with the idea for the movie and wrote the screenplay and backstory.

Which OP clearly knows given their post is a riff on a quote from Dodgeball.

I genuinely don’t understand why the cast of a movie should get residuals from an idea they didn’t originate and movies they aren’t starring in. Is this a normal ask that other actors get nowadays? 

To me, it feels like a bit of a bait and switch. Like the show wanted to attract people who are into the mystery / lore that comes with a mystery box type show and hope they’ll stay for the character drama. I’m not saying the show is bad (IMO it’s squarely average), but the mystery / intrigue element of it is why I…

First season was squarely just OK. Described it elsewhere as a mystery box show with minimal interest in the mystery box. The cast is good, as noted here, so it kept me watching. But I really think they could have made a similar and more focused show without the mysterious machine that just focused on these characters…

Nolan also did Person of Interest which is a great show that had a good amount of humor cutting through darker storylines. And he’s reportedly an enormous fan of the games - I think he once said that he was playing 3 so much that he wasn’t able to focus on his screenwriting career.