Yeah, it kind of needs to be “Gilligan Island With Cannibalism.” Otherwise it’s just another show about jerks stranded on a desert island. 

Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney as a virtuous couple cheated by evil corrupt corporate executives, the kid’s parents, would actually be a fairly amusing last act twist. 

I mean, I won’t pretend I’m not judging, but I guess if they’re not hurting anyone or each other and they’re both into it...whatever “it” is, then...go ahead, you crazy kids?

Unconfirmed as yet, but we strongly suspect there will be some foul language in the upcoming season. 

The first two movies were frankly pretty mediocre, as much fun as it is just to see the gang together again. I think that was probably unavoidable — they write these movies around all the other projects the cast has going on, and Omundson’s stroke apparently really scotched some of their plans for the first movie, so…

That Saturday Night Live appeared so willing to turn over a pivotal, early-season episode to a non-performer and her family/product suggests that SNL has no idea what it needs, either.

So Ted Lasso wants to marry Hope Van Dyne, but Agent Dooley blackmails him first, and then he gets in hock to Luke Cage? 

With hindsight, Brosnan feels like a really good jack-of-all-trades Bond. If you ranked the Bonds on a series of character traits, RPG-like, he wouldn’t be first in any of them, but he’d be near the top in most of them. He was suave and handsome, even if he never really achieved Connery levels in that regard. He could…

Feels like it’s time to re-write the script so Wakanda is afflicted by a deadly disease unleashed by the villain, and Shuri has to go around convincing everyone to get vaccinated. 

I think this is right on and a great post. Reasonable people can debate the idea that “everything is political” in art, and I’m broadly sympathetic to claims that we’ve unreasonably come to expect to concrete and didactic political statements in the art we consume. But the Far Cry series sets its games in these…

Cynthia Nixon with a look that says “I was running for Governor three years ago.”

I’m currently re-playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, which is by far my favorite of this RPG quasi-trilogy Ubisoft has put out recently. I played the game a couple years ago, but I wasn’t able to play the DLC (wrong disc region), and the PlayStation store had a good deal on the whole bundled thing, so I jumped back…

Margaret Qualley is playing mom characters now? Feels like just five minutes ago she was the world’s saddest teenager on The Leftovers. 

I wonder if someone at Disney realized they were in danger of killing the golden Marvel goose and talked the bigwigs into standing down. 

Yeah, it feels like there were about a dozen different ways for both of them to make the point they wanted to make, and they both choice the option from the Asshole Universe. 

I like that making fun of the Terminator sequels is now more or less an established MCU thing. There was a fun exchange about them back in Agents of SHIELD.

Am I the only one who thinks Michael Gandolfini looks a lot like a young John Cusack?

With Brooklyn 99 going off the air, it’s important to maintain appropriate levels of corgi representation on TV. 

For as much as I respect all the craft involved with the various Souls games, it’s hard for me to escape my sense that, too often, they simply fail at the task of being fun as games. It’s a series of design choices that, stacked one on top of another, tend to create an experience that’s more tedious than it is…

His role in the Thor sequel is small, but really charming.