We're living in a world where TMZ is often more credible than CNN and the New York Times. Which a sad, sad, statement.

I'll like your comment, but I'm very disappointed in you personally.

I imagine the FBI would probably work with the local CPS/DFS on this, but I'm not all that concerned that the Pitt/Jolie kids would end up in foster care. As in many other things, that's for families that aren't fortunate enough to have money or solid social support from relatives.

That could be, which I don't consider child abuse at all. I was a foster parent and I volunteer with kids in foster care now, and realistically there is a whole horrific spectrum of neglect and child abuse most decent people don't even like to think about. Oddly enough, though, most CPS departments even frown on…

Well, a few things, but none of them good. Also, "verbally abusive and getting physical" arguably covers a wide range of parenting behaviors—as little as grabbing your kid and/or telling them to "shut up." Vague reporting strikes again.

I'm not sure I do.

I enjoyed Suicide Squad in spite of its problems. The rest, not so much. If they can keep quality at SS levels or above, I'll be happy. That's not a terribly high standard, but I'm not expecting amazing things from my superhero movies.

I don't think they are soul-crushingly terrible (though Man of Steel comes closest, IMHO), but their problems are definitely more what you mention than a general sense of darkness. I would pinpoint the writing as the worst offender, as these movies often seem thrown together by people with little knowledge of/respect…

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Meh, I preferred Waste Lands to Wizard & Glass, but they're both good enough that there's no need to fight.

We'll have none of that M. Night Shyamalan nonsense here, mister.

Except there are also murderous metal balls flying through the air that may also have dead people's brains shoved into them. And psychics exist, but die pretty quickly. And there is some kind of apocalypse, maybe?

As a fan of 70s and 80s horror, Phantasm and Phantasm II are pretty much classics for me. When it came to III and IV, I tried so hard to like those, but the direct-to-video-ness of them, along with tonal and continuity issues, just made it too hard to enjoy. I'd hope that this last one at least finishes the series in…

Do you have time to eat my farts?

You may have done what I often do, which is fall asleep in the middle of an episode and wake up a few minutes later, not realizing what happened. The struggle is real.

Who wants to be old in heaven?

But Chidi ultimately decides to help her because that's the kind of guy he is. He might talk a good game, but he was never going to abandon her. It's not really a concealed plot twist, I don't think, that he IS actually Eleanor's soul mate for exactly this reason.

Are the characters that good, though? Only Chidi and the super-happy gay couple seem all that amazing as people; everyone else has some level of snark or angst. Chidi may also have a couple more layers there, as demonstrated by his tolerance/attraction to Eleanor.

I suspect the choices are not as simple as good place/bad place, and Michael or his higher-ups have a reason for recruiting a specific kind of person as a resident and keeping them there. This may actually end of being more a workplace comedy that we initially thought.

Many of them (I don't remember whether it was all) specifically called back to things she said or did. But I agree the world itself seems a tad unstable, which Michael probably knows and is freaking out about.