It really isn’t that complex, though. The fundamental problem is that streamers (most of which are now owned by the production companies themselves) have decided that the existing rules shouldn’t apply to them because they’re “different,” in much the same way that Uber decided the taxi regulations didn’t apply to them…

He made it to Paris? Paris, France? Across the Atlantic Ocean? The really big one, that ocean?

Okey dokey.

Obligatory joke about how nothing’s changed about Paris after the apocalypse then as workers are clearly still battling the government over multiple grievances.

I think there was a small resurgence in interest when Angela Kang took over as showrunner, but that was after seasons 7 and 8, which did enough damage to turn most people off. Which is a shame, because Kang brought some real creative juices to the series and some of the best looking and atmospheric episodes are from…

I was hoping this zombies-in-France show was going to be spin-off of ‘Emily in Paris’.

My own, and no vested interest. He was in talks with a partnership I represented and worked with to finance, because at that point no studio would. (TBC, no studio would commit to financing *all 3* in advance, which is indeed a crazy bet because you have no idea how the first will perform.) I rammed through 3 scripts…

they were very very good

Never forget that a huge amount of the proceeds from “Yellowstone” and its spinoff properties was supposed to have gone to compensate the Harvey Weinstein victims, except that a couple of the exiting executives weaseled the rights away for themselves. So the whole enterprise was developed with maximal scheming, and…

It should be noted that Costner’s Horizon project has now ballooned into a four movie (and likely expanding) work.

$24 million to stare out towards the beautiful Montana scenery while wearing a Carhartt jacket for a few years?

I posted elsewhere after the first two episodes that this wasn’t Justified, this was Raylan Givens in an Elmore Leonard story, and that’s fine. And it was. Raylan was a visitor here and that maybe lessened the impact. But I enjoyed revisiting with the good Marshall. 

Yeah, so true. The Mandalorian, which was hardly all that “original” in the first place, given that it was basically just Boba Fett in all but name partnered up with an even cuter Yoda, at least tried to forge its own identity at first, before eventually just becoming consumed with references and connections to other…

I saw an Ahsoka review today from Darren Mooney, in which he points to Star Wars moving from once drawing inspiration from outward to now going inward, as the franchise seems (with very few exceptions, Andor being one of them) to only be capable of referencing itself these days.

Andor really is that lone candle of light left in the growing gloom of Star Wars becoming an endless content treadmill that doesn’t have anything to say about anything, other than filling in empty spaces on obscure Wookieepedia pages.

Oh and if it helps they’re almost certainly covering Marrok’s face and not letting him talk because they want us to guess that’s he’s mind-wiped Ezra Bridger.

So Corellia is where Han is from, and was featured heavily at the start of that movie they made about Han, including that it was a shipyard for the Empire. We’ve known Han was Corellian since 1977.

lol, I’m thinking the pushback divides fans into the categories “watches cartoons” and “doesn’t watch cartoons”, and the people who didn’t want to watch them are now feeling alienated that Ahsoka is the big thing this week. Ultimately they just are also in the mood for a new Star War so it’s just FOMO.

As a 90s kid…

My one and only complaint is how boring Ahsoka herself has become. I know she’s meant to be “older and wiser” than the bubbly kid “Snips” from Clone Wars. I’m fine with a little battle-weary kind of grumpiness - not unlike the sequels-era Han Solo. And I know she experienced some serious trauma and loss during Order…

Yeah, I’m definitely getting Agents of SHIELD review vibes from this.

Oh no, you guys. This Star Wars show expects the viewer to like Star Wars. Terrible.