I don't know why I wasn't expecting the Grunberg cameo, but I sure cheered when he came on screen (also Miles aka Ken Leung!). The people next to me seemed confused.

Is that you, Jason Mann?

You certainly can't blame the film for having too much exposition. I'm still torn between whether I really liked that or if I wished they had given us a little more. The old trilogy worked in a similar way, and the viewer was expected to catch up to what had happened inbetween movies. Here I think that a lot of…

(vague SPOILERS below, but no more than in the review)

Having just seen the film I would say that those two things are exactly what it does best. I think its legacy will very much be determined by VIII and IX, but this is a terrific starting point.

Go forth and watch Rectify. Third year in a row that it's number one on my list.
Part of me thinks that it would top every aggregate best-of-list if only enough people were watching, but it probably helps that every aspect of the show feels tailored to appeal to me personally.

Such as…? The Returned? Deutschland 83?

The fun thing about speculation like this is that any show not making the top 20 didn't even make the Top 40. It really speaks to the crazy level of quality of TV that there are multiple shows for which that even is a possibility. I think UnREAL is probably in the Top 20, and I could see The Returned, The Knick,…

I agree. Master of None was good, but it isn't making my Top 20. It is in my top 40, but mostly because I probably didn't watch much more than 40 shows this year, and I already watch a looot of TV.

Can anybody elaborate on the difference between this and, for example, the TCA awards? Are the voting bodies completely separate, or is there overlap in the television department?

I had not, but now I find it hard to imagine you're wrong. Unless it's the kind of show that will keep going and going for years and where any speculation at this point is useless since the writers themselves haven't made up their minds yet. It is on Showtime after all…

From an update last week during the Kickstarter campaign:
"So, like I said, we've now made offers to all of MST's
original writers. While it seems like most of them won't be available to
join us, at least for now, I still hope they’ll decide to join us
later. We'll always be glad to have them back, even if it's just…

But there was no mystery donation of $100.000. They just waited until the last minute to update the total of money that was received in their add-on store (it went from $525.000 to $600.000 in that moment, but the money had accumulated throughout the day). Also they never switched to showing full old episodes, the…

I'm sooo glad you included that interview link at the end! I totally missed that when it came out, and it's the best thing I've read all… month?

Wow. Now I hate myself a little bit.

Well I would say it's both. Even in today's reboot/revial landscape, for every show that's coming back there's probably ten or twenty showrunners from back in the day that are trying to get network/cable/streaming execs to believe that a fanbase for their property is still out there.

I'm kind of hoping that everyone will frown disapprovingly when Meg tries to blow up the bridge, that John finds about his daughter before he finds out about the hand print, and that Kevin and Nora will finally be able to relax now that Patty is gone. Somehow I think none of that will happen.

Nice catch! He's really someone that I didn't pay much attention to for most of the season, but he certainly had some significant scenes and seems deeply loyal to the trade minister.

Ed's dead baby, Ed's dead.

The quote is right(ish?), but the point was that the films weren't made by the MITHC, he is just the one that collects them.