I understand the distinction that FloggyBottom is making. Gene Wilder’s Wonka is “magical” in the sense that he’s so creative and brilliant at making candy that his products have properties that are inconceivable to everyone else in the industry. But he’s not a literal wizard. The fake Slugworth asks Charlie to steal a…

yeah this definitely removed the madness

Reminds me of how that Oz the Great and Powerful movie expected us to believe moody James Franco eventually grows to become a wacky old character actor.

Yes. This looks like someone saw Burton’s version and said, “Sure, but can you make it more whimsical and twee???”

My eyes just rolled into the back of my head. What an abomination.

Ctrl+F for Rushmore only turns up the comments section. Where did you acknowledge it?

Timothy Chalament

I’m in the midst of a rewatch of ‘The Americans’ right now, and just the other night viewed the episode “Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?”. And if you’ve seen it, you know that’s one hell of an episode for Keri Russell.

“For All Mankind” had a good, but not great first season. Still need to watch Season 2, which is apparently even better. 

People used to rake TNG over the coals for elevated a mental health professional to such a prominent role in the crew.

Grimes is actually an army of clones. We don’t even know which one popped out the secret baby.

Yeah, I’m not sure the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has earned Dolly Parton.

I thought she kept saying “Russell Cahn” for some reason.

I’m just going to consider this performance an audition.

I’m only one man

Cynthia Nixon, you do have plenty of television experience and I expected more from you.

In hindsight, that Gringott’s lunchroom scene where the staff all order pastrami on rye with a Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda and then complain about getting “schmutz on their schmatta” seems really unnecessary.

Then why do you do it? It just seems like a passive aggressive novelty account.

This schtick is getting old.

The dude who wants the Wrestlemania tickets in Groundhog Day?