This was the best fucking episode of anything I've ever seen

Chiwetel or bust

Oh snap!

gone too soon

IFC is more interested in keeping the show on so as to keep its ties to the Earwolf talent rather than the show itself, I expect - they want a show that will do as well as Portlandia and they figure this pool of comedians will be able to do it eventually.

No idea - Aukerman says the network approached him about it and then just a few weeks later just proposed upping the episode order before he really gave any ideas much of a greater thought.

The first season is kind of the necessary baseline of a show using a pretty straightforward formula, and from the second season and increasingly as it goes on they've veered into intense high-concept reinterpretations of that formula. You get a bit of that in the end of the first season but I don't think the show…

I don't mean to alarm you but Scott Aukerman is the man behind Between Two Ferns and has directed/written pretty much every episode

The most amazing thing about this show is, though I never realized it at all until the recent podcast with Rob Corddry, it basically is the same show as Children's Hospital. It's the only thing on TV that matters.

It's not that expensive to produce overall, and its episode-count has it in syndication money now.

Was it a known fact that apparently Mary Poppins is an immortal? This part of the canon is unsettling me somewhat.

Was hoping it would be Martha Plimpton.

Guess there's just been a sudden and unprecedented demand for recaps of season 11 of the Simpsons.

Wish there was somebody in particular here that likes Steven Soderbergh.

From directing feature filmmaking. He still directed two seasons of the Knick (with hopes to do more), as well as editing & shooting Magic Mike XXL under his former AD. And he's coming back with a new movie.

Do we think they will be closely following the plot of the direct-to-DVD Jungle Book 2, or will they be going in a different direction? Would really upset the fans if so.

Bonfire of the Vanities! The Prince of Tides! Awakenings!

Please look up the twist ending to this movie. It's hilarious.
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I don't know what my objective was but I did get you comparing the director of Snake Eyes to Mozart so I'll chalk it up as at least a partial success.

I think, a lot like Hitchcock, there is this feeling among critics that because it is genre or pulp stuff that it must be inherently bad or vulgar or immoral, and there's this rejection from one set, but the other critics (like Cahiers for Hitchcock and Kael for De Palma) embrace the appeal of the (unfair wording)…