Not to be pedantic, but Paramount isn't busy with the TV show. Paramount TV and Paramount Pictures split apart, and the TV rights to Star Trek are now independently owned by CBS. The productions are independent of each other (although there is some overlap in the producers).

Surprised you didn't mention the Len Wiseman connection, in drawing the parallel with Sleepy Hollow. He of Underworld fame is the creator and executive producer of Sleepy Hollow, and also Exec Producer and sometimes-director (the pilot) on this show.

I could've sworn that the AV Club already posted its review of the movie several weeks ago (at the same time everyone else did). Am I crazy?

Like most contracts, the Knight's Watch pledge is poorly drafted. It states at the beginning:
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death.

Yeah, this episode felt more drama than comedy. There were a few great moments of humour (basically everything Dinesh and Gilfoyle) but by and large this was a painful episode, with the characters we care about getting bullied into submission by assholes, and being helpless to do anything about it (true of three…

It's battery in tort speak, but most criminal codes do away with the distinction and just call it all "assault", don't they?

I'm starting to wonder if this whole thing isn't a stunt cooked up by the American Bartenders School. I mean, look at that product placement. And as we all know, the ABS is a powerful cabal capable of anything.

He's morphed into an intensely hateable shithead in the Joffrey mold kind of suddenly. The show has a knack for making petulant teen boys intensely unlikeable.

Can't they take the odds and bet on someone not getting killed? I mean if you have a $100 to spend, throw some of that Tommen's way at 6:1, or even Tyrion's way at 50:1. It's free money.

I'm imagining you storm away from the TV after Davos dies, grab your dining table with both hands, grunt like Wolverine, and then - wait,

That movie raked in >$200m in revenue. That's the bigger mystery.

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH THE MOVIE NOW THAT I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT A CHARACTER'S BASIC RELATIONSHIP TO ANOTHER CHARACTER? I USUALLY WOULDN'T HAVE FOUND THAT OUT UNTIL 5 OR 6 SECONDS AFTER HE WAS INTRODUCED ON SCREEN. BUT NOW THE WHOLE MOVIE IS RUINED. THANKS OBAMA.

You clearly went to the Adam Sandler School of Movie Budgeting (tuition is way higher than you'd expect it to be, and no one is really sure where all the money goes - it is directly adjacent to the Derek Zoolander Centre For Kid Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to do Other Stuff Good Too).

It was funny, but it lacked social commentary. I mean, it flirts with the idea of polygamy, but doesn't go anywhere with it. It's just a funny, tossed off bit. B-.

I've been to Cineplex VIP (in Canada - I guess they don't have a US presence) a couple of times, but what you're describing sounds fancier. At Cineplex, they only serve food and drinks before the movie (which you could have just as easily picked up on your way in), and at no point during it, so you have to walk out…

"not good, but insanely watchable" is kind of the CBS primetime motto. You can see why the network is such a hit with old people, because so much of their stuff is proficiently made, inoffensive, and very easy to keep up with (they sprinkle in serialized elements to almost all their shows now, but almost always as a…

review renew the fucking show next season.

That guy wasn't a particularly good actor, which made me wonder whether maybe he was a real life staffer of some kind on the crew. I have not made the effort to investigate, but it felt that way.

Same here, the "Secretary of State" confused me. They must have known Canada doesn't have a secretary of state , and it's sort of annoying when TV shows mis-educate Americans about Canada (hell, I work in an office with a former Minister of Foreign Affairs down the hall, and even I had to pause to think whether Canada…

He bowed out in 2012. But it wasn't particularly graceful:
http://www.theguardian.com/…