“Hey, Laura. Did you get my Valentine?”

I’m a little higher on this episode than LaToya, but I do think it’s one of those episodes that’s more interesting conceptually than it turned out to be in reality. Lengthy passage of time during a single episode, an affecting pregnancy storyline, significant focus on one of the gross comic relief characters...it’s a…

Something I’ve kind of been mulling over recently is how it seems like a lot of movies and shows fail when they deliberately aim for some kind of quirky or unusual tone. Whether it’s “Hey, we’re so-bad-it’s-good” or “We’re just a bunch of golly-gee-whiz fun-havers over here,” it’s really easy to miss the mark.

I was glad D’Angelo mentioned Bang’s height, because the first thing that occurred to me when I saw the picture at the top of the article was, “If Elizabeth Debicki is looking up at him, that must be one tall dude.”

I mean, now I want a shot of Thanos yelling into an iPhone.

On the other hand, Isla Fisher in a toga.

(This might be answered if I watch the video, but I’m at work, so....)

I’m guessing that chant sounds better in Dutch?

So, this sounds completely insufferable.

The deathbed conversation last season with J.K. Simmons...that was some genuinely, staggeringly complex and affecting stuff.

Brockmire is stunningly good. Like, there’s no way a show with that premise and background should be so good and so emotionally resonant. 

You know what’s striking about this show? Every week there are, like, five different actors who could be the best part of an episode.

Agreed. This is a really, really touchy subject, and the straight white male gentile probably isn’t the best guy to talk about it, but a lot of our social justice discourse has...a blind spot, or at least a different set of standards, for concerns raised by Jews or Jewish organizations. It’s hard to imagine a similar…

Brooklyn Nine-Nine getting a pegging reference into a primetime NBC sitcom is a hell of a thing. 

Wasn’t Emily Blunt originally supposed to play Black Widow?

So, if I already pay for HBO as part of my cable package, will I have access to HBO Max?

I’ve never seen Fantasy Island, but just from the perspective of TV craft it seems like a pretty brilliant concept. An endless stream of standalone stories, you can play around in any genre you want, and an easy reset button at the end of the episode. Plus a perfect plug-and-play set-up for any guest star who just…

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey thoroughly has its hooks in me. They’ve got that Skinner Box/gameplay loop down to a science. There’s always something right over the horizon to keep me playing after I’ve decided to stop for the night - levelling up, a fancy new weapon, a question mark to turn into something, an upgrade for…

I’m always kind of fascinated by storytelling flaws that could actually work as interesting choices if they were intentional. Like this, for example:

The corgi should win every year.