I appreciate the tongue-n-cheek nostalgia but just in case this isn't that: you do see the problem with taking a black hero in this gritty realistic corner of the MCU and interpreting him through a reductive, anachronistic blaxploitation lens, right? If you want that, you could watch Black Dynamite, I guess.

Chuck is such a reptile. He just … waits … cold-blooded and patient. But when he strikes, his massive self-regard of himself as Mr Ethics means he uses surrogates. He thinks it reflects well on him that he won't admit to a felony regarding Kim when that not only wasn't Jimmy's point but also fucking horrid and…

And now I'm hoping someone is pitching Criminal to HBO or AMC and Fatale to SyFy and I am just recalling that someone is adapting Lazarus!

Knew it was only a matter of time with Scalped. There is almost nothing that needs to be changed.

I've found myself more invested in Julia than anyone at Brakebills. To know there is this fantastic reality beneath the surface of the mundane, and to have been denied the ability to be a part of that, it makes her struggle more real and relatable than anything we're seeing the main characters experience.

It's a fair point. We'll have to wait and get more clarity but I could see it being a timeline thing. She may have felt that while Mike would be open to helping her move, her war zone hustle gooses the level of urgency.

I considered that then thought about how offices operate. I think we can agree pretty instantly it'd be known by the staff that there was a TV spot that generated these calls. But as that trickled up that afternoon, the associates would be question among themselves, thinking they'd not heard about it somehow, and the…

She's manipulative and her goal is to get Mike to move them from that house but it isn't yet clear what her motivation is.

I know someone that does paper routes as a side gig today.

You mean when he was skipping to work the next morning, bright-eyed and whistling, high-fiving the guard from the previous shift and making a little small-talk?

The only thing about this movie that pleases me is that it is NOT an adaptation of Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness.

On next week's episode, the group encounters tunnel that leads inside an invisible dome and discover a cursed egg.

Bum in the park … maybe Blue Morpho?

Yeah, the impression I get about the OPA is it isn't a unified organization but a loose confederacy similar to the IRA of the 80s, with Dawes controlling Ceres underground, while Johnson works less in shadows and controls the political faction of the OPA.

I'm hoping he hands off The Expanse to someone on the staff more into the show because his reviews are the worst kind of nitpicking death-by-'meh.'

Finally someone asking the important questions! Let me theorize before some asshat who read the books comes in here with spoilers.

I don't know the process for this show but The Expanse has the benefit of having the authors in the writers room. This has kept at bay the temptation of screenwriters to jettison too much to get to action scenes and dramatic plot points. Possibly to its detriment because some viewers couldn't sit through the first…

That's a valid point, I was just throwing a little shade back!

Subtle shade is the best shade!

Am I the only one reading this running joke about not forgetting The Expanse as shade?