She’s also on the new batch of Netflix “The Standups” and her set is hilarious — and kind of in that vein where she’s only getting away with the things she says because of her charisma, and knows it. I think when Brunson says “she’s not a writer,” she (almost certainly) means she doesn’t write for this show in…

Dang it, and here’s me right in the middle of a Punisher rewatch. I guess I’d better pick up the pace.

I’m a little surprised that https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ didn’t get a mention here, as they have been doing the good work on this front for many years now.

Having watched that episode (and that one only, at least so far) I felt like, whatever he said his reasons were, he picked the biggest name of the three suspects as the murderer. This is a reliable indicator on police procedurals as well, so sound TV police work there, Lou. I mean Conan.

True, I didn’t mind him as much as Pike either. And while I kind of wish the producers of Star Trek would just leave the past the hell alone and stop putting Spock (or Data) in every damn project — trust that your audience is interested in the WHOLE Federation, not just the characters from 50+ years ago, and give us…

Seconded. The charisma vacuum that is Anson Mount’s performance in that show made it a hard slog (and frankly Common wasn’t much better) but Heyerdahl and Colm Meany kept me fitfully engaged long enough to finish it out.

Harrumph! Excuse me, sir, and I do beg your pardon, but the Legion of Doom was not “doofy.” That villain team-up single-handedly (err, triple-handedly) rescued Legends from being another humdrum Arrowverse show after the slog of season 1.

I like it as well, and its rarity has added a “cult classic” sheen to it that it probably doesn’t really deserve because, as you say, it doesn’t really come together. But you can see how, after the huge unanticipated success of The Blues Brothers, this one looked like a winner: you’ve got Aykroyd, some solid character…

It is a very well-observed performance, but it also brings home the idea that all of Danny McBride’s characters are 13-year-old shitheads in adult bodies. (Which is funny until it’s not, and different people seem have a different point of “not.”)

Not his greatest role, but one I still remember: “Smooth” Walker, the weaselly pimp who owes 80 large to Kate “Mom” Murtaugh in the Dan Aykroyd flop Doctor Detroit. Which nevertheless contains a great James Brown performance!

Indeed. And on that topic, the Tom Hanks movie That Thing You Do! is a pretty good representation of how those things worked, for anybody who’s curious and hasn’t seen it.

Learning this (thanks for responding to my ignorant comment and sparking a good discussion, by the way!) makes me wonder if somebody is working on a way to sell officially licensed 3D printer patterns for the adult collector, so they can make and paint their own figures. That seems like it would be a good racket.

It makes sense, though. Early ‘60s pop songs were not very long at all, with few cracking the 3 minute mark, and by the time the Beatles were creating more involved and experimental (i.e. longer) compositions, they weren’t playing live anymore. So a 30 minute showcase could certainly fit 11 or 12 songs, since there’s…

Amusingly, I was recently reminded where I’d first seen David Costabile before his excellent turn as the most loyal asshole on Billions. No, it wasn’t in The Wire, or Damages, or even Breaking Bad. My first encounter with him was as Doug from Flight of the Conchords — the extremely passive husband of Mel, FOTC’s one…

Everybody likes to bag on the color-coded speeder bikes scene but NOBODY HAS MENTIONED how many different past and future action figures that short scene managed to reference. Every single one of those surprised Mos Eisley denizens is going to have a name, a background, and an accessory sold separately, and your…

I wish I was feeling the same love for this episode Jarrod was, but it was hard for me to see it as more than yet another bottle episode filling out the run and saving money for CGI stuff elsewhere in the season. I love that the Legends have feelings, but I like them to unfold during moments of crisis rather than as…

Honestly, Kelvin’s shenanigans are my least favorite part of the show. I kind of used up all my patience for the “obviously not-straight man is screaming as loudly as he can from inside the closet but can’t even hear himself” brand of humor when it was Tobias Funke being relentlessly oblivious to how he was coming off…

A couple of typos made it through, which I’m not gonna worry about. But one point of order — the Legends don’t have any demonic crew per se, do they? Astra is a human who got trapped in Hell, escaped, and is now a sorceress-in-training.

Interesting! I read a lot more into Junior’s next line, about how “people said I killed [my father],” which suggested to me that was exactly what had happened, and Eli didn’t necessarily know the truth but had worked closely enough with Junior to know that he was a killer... and was worried about having Junior back in…

Well, I was born in Chicago, but Italian beeves are just not my thing. I’m kind of the opposite of Dennis, in that I just can’t stand a hot sandwich with sloppy / disintegrating bread. (This has also has kept me away from meatball subs all my life.) And I’m not a big fan of giardiniera, which some folk around here…