Have you found anything re: Blatty's reaction? I found this July interview of Slater, asked whether the show had Friedkin's or Blatty's support:

thanks!

Word re: Herrera's delivery of that line, and same re: Daniels' delivery in the "elephant story" scene - sledgehammer

Nice! I hadn't seen that. Did he say anything about a Season 2? I know it's not his call to make, but did he indicate being aware of any reason for optimism?

Good point and I'm not saying it ruined the show for me (I loved it), I guess I'm just saying the show could have impressed me even more (and might still, if there's a Season 2, which there won't be - sad) by skillfully depicting the aftermath of something like that happening in broad daylight on TV in front of a…

Indeed - plus the possessed (integrated? does inhaling the evil dust possess you or integrate you?) police chief thing. Like maybe he's going to say "no, just cut this guy loose" when the police are saying (which nobody said in this episode, for some reason) "hey, lets look into this footage of the guy in the tank…

I liked how once Tomas came back from the dream room and you have some sense that now maybe he can at least mount some kind of fight (now that he's confessed his sins in the dream room, faced up to his own vanity, falseness, etc., forgiven himself) and back in the Rance house room his words are starting to have some…

That's a good point, but I still think Pazuzu's ideal outcome would have been the family members killing each other and Father Tomas killing himself to facilitate possessed Geena Davis going on to assume a position of power in society, with an eye toward the "macro" thing we're hoping for in Season 2 (which we'll…

I loved the episode but my only minor gripe was that Father Marcus seems to just get to walk away at the end - doesn't he have some questions to answer to the plain old "authorities" like the cops who have video of him killing Simon?

tragedy + time = comedy

So Keoni Waxman makes Andy Sidaris look like what, Ang Lee?

Movies I Like A Lot But The Review Was From Before There Was A Comments Section, Case File No. 16-483

Get a Brain, Morans

Stargate 2: Sie, Stargate, Sie!

Word, "Hard Target" was terrific, despite whatever JCVD may have done to make it not as good as it could have been.

In what sense is Clinton a "flaming hot Cheeto?"

People who generalize are all the same

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Oh wow, I remember those 7-up bottles - the wrapper was actually like thin foam and you couldn't help but peel it off the bottle in strips.

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