I misread that as "viscous drug," which makes just as much sense. Oh yeah, and I like her more when she plays a valium than a heroin.

I remember reading somewhere that Ian Richardson only consented to doing the third series if Urquhart got some kind of comeuppance.

Classic Tammy

I think "afraid" is the wrong word—I'd say "upset" that others might believe it. The correct comparison isn't other films with pseudoscience, though, it's other films/tv shows with premises based on myths that are reported elsewhere as true. I think a comparable phenomenon is trying to watch a war film with a soldier…

Well, nearly half of all Americans believe God created humanity in its present form within the last 10,000 years, so I doubt the "rabid response" to Lucy found on the AV Club and a few other places online debunked that idea as thoroughly as you suggest. Since the only place I ever hear it is pop culture…

I'm not going to go into all these examples, but I think the thing that bugged people about Lucy wasn't that the factoid is wrong, it's that other people are believed to think it's true. Those same people can probably watch Deadly Friend secure in the knowledge that their fellow citizens don't really believe you can…

Yeah. It sounds like trolling, but the movie was a lot more fun than the show ever was, and SMG was pale, dour, poor substitute for Kristy.

Sorry, I see it's four dresses now.

Has anybody said "There are four lights!" yet?

I find "kid-friendly Star Wars" redundant. If anything GotG (which I enjoyed but didn't love) is actually a bit child-unfriendly. I thought my wife might like it, so I took her after I'd already seen it, but cautioned her that you have to kind of accept that almost all the characters in the movie are basically…

Yeah, I remember Shadowrun pretty fondly (from the early 90s). To me it seemed like a healthy mix of PKD/Burroughs/Gibson, with a little Thundarr thrown in, but that may be just because I was also into that stuff at the time.

I think the concept of "failure" is a bit ill-defined in these conversations. Sure, lots of people who like Star Wars didn't like the prequels, but they're still among the highest grossing movies of all time, and to lots of young Star Wars fans (my nephews, for instance), they're just as much part of the saga as the…

I loved Krull as a kid and I still enjoy it, as do my nephews (his dad's raising them pretty well.) It can't be that bad; it's got Liam Neesons in it!

I enjoyed reading it, but waited in vain for something approaching a thesis to appear until nearly the end. It did, however, provide a lot of people with an opportunity to wax nostalgic about favorite pop culture of the last few decades.

A lot of Coyote Lovely is dead space to me, but I do enjoy Lana's expressed theory that Archer has PDD/atypical autism and Archer's hostile response.

Yeah, ouch!

She wasn't like that on Delocated, but seems to be good at that type, leading to a little typecasting. To be fair, though, snarky and pretentious and snarky is totally my type.

I'm unreasonably attracted to Zoe Lister-Jones and happy to see her return to TV. I watched Whitney (OK, a couple of times) for her. I even watched Friends with Better Lives for her (OK, and for Brooklyn Decker.)

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series, but it did lose what could've been a really daring edge within a few episodes. My wife was *very* skeptical of this show when I forced her to watch the pilot last year, but she ended up enjoying it. We still make jokes about "the second best assassin in the world."

In the British original, the press makes use of Urquhart's initials like that. I remember a newsreader referring to one of his "FU stunts."