Norton has just about perfected the format. He has a good team behind him and he does really well with setting the guests at ease, though the booze surely helps. He also sets things up so the guests can actually have fun with each other; here I'm thinking of Stanley Tucci being completely floored by Miriam…

And people in the service industry don't regularly show their boredom, frustration, irritation, exasperation or even outright anger???

They're human, that's all I'd say. Cracks will show, especially if they're feeling they're getting too old for this shit. In the case of Ford, Guinness & Freeman, you've got, I dunno, 120 or 130 years of film-acting between them, so that needs to be taken into consideration.

Yeah, but just think of the incessant barrage of the same types of questions — or, often, the borderline insane ones. Alec Guinness, for example, got so sick of hearing questions about how much he made from Star Wars and how did he know the film was going to be a success and so forth that he came to hate doing…

Brilliant.

He actually had fun on Graham Norton's show. He also, apparently, got friendly with British comedian Jack Whitehall, which led to this story between Whitehall and Jennifer Lawrence later:

Because so much of Ford's career is iconic (Star Wars, Indy, Blade Runner, etc.), huge portions of every junket have to be about asking him questions he's been asked, by now, thousands of times before. It's easy to get disspirited by that. Alec Guinness got really fed up with it, too, Last few interviews I've seen…

I'm looking forward to when I can be too.

John McClane eventually did. ;-)

Don't think he hates acting — but, for the most part, he does hate doing the press junkets and such. (And, really, who can blame him, especially after decades of doing them?) Plus, he does always seem to enjoy playing cranky and taciturn.

John Book, celebrating his 100th birthday at a local nursing home, finds himself having to protect a 70 year-old Amish man after he witnesses someone stealing the home's supply of Werther's Originals.

I'm waiting for Still Presumed Innocent.

Seek help, dude. You are just too damned angry. And this path of conversation is entirely over.

You just (sorry about your luck) happened to run into two people who disagree with you. Deal with it. I've been pretty detailed about the basis (or bases) for my opinions, so feel free to disagree and dispute. But, please, in a fashion more respectful than "eat shit" and "Get the fuck out of here with that shit." …

Touchy, touchy… Is it so hard to believe that others have different opinions than you?

8-10 episodes would be ideal. Personally, I think I'd like the "tightness" of 8 episodes, generally, but there's also a good argument for letting stuff breathe a bit and stretching to 10 episodes, whether for pacing, character-driven dialogue, etc., etc. But 13 episodes seems to be well too much.

I should not have laughed (in a good way) at that as much as I did. Well done.

Noah Hawley might have something to say about that. ;-)

I'd also add, to what I said just below, that Netflix shows are in a different scenario: most of their episodes go unseen until they're all released, so they get no feedback until the end of a season (and ergo, no time to correct based on audience response). That has to be taken into consideration, I think.

(And, reverse example, of a show which started so well but spiraled into complete shit immediately after that, Sleepy Hollow. Remember that, anyone?)