YOU CAN'T SAY THAT WORD! THAT'S OUR WORD!

Like a lot of AD fans, I had unreasonably high expectations going into S4, and while intellectually I knew it wasn't going to be as good, I was still disappointed. I recently re-watched it, and enjoyed it a lot more- it's tough to divorce a show's great past from the present, but I just liked to see the characters…

This week and last, AMC ran the ad on how their shows influence pop culture and fans' lives— only it showed Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Walking Dead as those shows- which is totally believable, given that they precisely are those prestige-shows (even when TWD was not artful, it was always entertaining…except for…

FTWD influences/homages/ripoffs, Week 2:

#BlackZombieLivesMatter.

Something unrelated (like all Internet beefs).

Whoa whoa whoa- let's not say things we can't take back!

Oh, you can. I got into it with Vanderwerff a while ago about how much that show was flawed beyond redemption, and he got pissy about how it was really good and people just didn't understand. Between Clarke and Isaacs, it had great potential; the fact that the Irish mob predated the Five Families in NY and that the…

Up here it really runs the gamut. Some units go ALL OUT for people retiring, while others are like "Oh, yeah, Shelly retired last Friday. Didn't you hear?"

True, though he did Miami Blues (definitely a great movie) when his star was still on the rise, when he was still known as "that handsome guy from Beetlejuice"; Marrying came out around the same time as Red October, so it didn't hurt him career-wise (though he did meet and fall in love with Basinger on set, so…). …

Mr. Green shut your mouth.

The Baldwin vignette is great. I remember a profile of him in The New Yorker close to a decade ago where it was focusing on his re-found stardom thanks to 30 Rock taking a chance on him, and there was a real gut-punch of a passage where he talked about how he was a leading man in the mid-90s with a pretty solid body…

True- as a matter of fact, at some point early in CSI's run, Tom Noonan played the bad guy opposite William Petersen; more should've been made of it at the time, but that was a blatant wink at both the roles they played as well as the criticism about it owing a lot to the Harris oeuvre.

It is, though already there are some Jezebel/Gawker writers starting to accuse the show of being anti-woman. Considering that most of the onscreen violence hasn't borne that out doesn't mean that some are just looking to stir shit up.

So you're telling me you went to Belmont and failed to get signed by Warner or Sony? Back to the Bluebird with you!

Both came out in 2002; though as it was mentioned down-thread, Wyndham's Triffids predates all of this, and is the template for the in-media-res waking-up-from-a-coma intros.

Rubicon

Not even Lil' Stannis with his overwrought John Cazale impression could save this mess. It doesn't help that nobody is particularly interesting, though Cliff Curtis showed some flashes of likability early on. The pilot was gorgeously shot, and the lens filtering/filmstock/production values all made it look great,…

HOMOPHOBE!!!

Considering how Gray was the cameraman for the Barnes-Cube interview that got Dre riled up in the first place, he already has a perspective to the whole sad episode. It's some kind of bullshit, alright, and the fact that this whole film isn't shot through the lens of satire, which is the only way NWA would've wanted…