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    Can't they just come up with a good two-part series finale and let it settle for a decade or so? I'm pretty sure I've already seen everything these characters can possibly do. If they want to reboot the characters with new movies in the future, fine, but this shouldn't be some zombie series that lasts forever.

    One thing that's always interested me about the Don Draper identity theft is that it has little to do with Don's later success. I mean, he worked/conned his way up from selling fur coats to becoming a multimillionaire partner in an ad agency, but none of that directly had to do with assuming Don Draper's name or

    Yeah, I think this was partly a callback to the first few episodes, when her shrink would call up Don and report on their sessions. That was 1960, and a lot of things have changed both in the world and in Betty's life, but doctors are still treating her like her husband's appendage.

    Yeah, if anything I found it borderline unrealistic that New Phil put up with Tandy's violent insecurity for as long as he did.

    Considering how fast and loose they've played with the science of a virus apocalypse, they'll probably just explain that the resistance is genetic and both Miller brothers have it by some freak coincidence. I don't see a scenario where they introduce the brother just to kill him off after he lands.

    You can only see him for about a second in the pilot, when Phil is remembering (presumably) his last birthday party before the virus hit. At the time it was remarked that Jason Sudeikis was too famous to just show up for a brief flashback like that, so many fans assumed that Phil's relationship with his brother would

    You definitely get a medal for watching six movies in one day, where the best movie (by far) involves super-intelligent genetically modified sharks escaping from their tanks.

    In this case, I'm assuming that most of Portishead's streams are coming from albums that were released in the mid-to-late-90's. When their second self-titled album came out 1997, most people in the U.S. had 56k dial-up modems if they were on the Internet at all. I remember it used to take a couple hours to download

    This is one major problem with the premise that's been exposed really early — whenever the show's narrative engine runs out of gas, they can always just have more people drive into town. If there are 4 people in the world, why not 6? Why not 26? We already know that Phil isn't actually the last man on Earth, but

    It definitely seems to be leaning that way, with Guardians in particular pushing the space opera stuff to the forefront. Just the fact that they're doing an Infinity Gauntlet story means that we're dealing with far-out space villains instead of crooked businessmen. I still think that the two best moves of the MCU —

    There's also the problem that the entire conceit of Thor — what if Norse gods were really aliens??? — is fundamentally stupid, and the Asgard fantasy setting doesn't really gel with the rest of the MCU. It's fun to have Thor as one player on the Avengers roster, but I think it's a stretch for the character to carry

    As long as the episodes are available for purchasing or streaming somewhere, there will be torrents and NZBs and so on of the episodes. After an episode airs or streams once, a near-perfect digital copy is available somewhere forever. So this isn't akin to the fact that we've lost a depressing number of silent films

    While the non-Lynch bits of Season 2 are pretty horrible, I actually don't think a non-Lynch revival would be all that bad. The problem isn't that Lynch is a singular genius and nobody else could shoot the scripts that are already written. Season 2 was bad because nobody working in the network TV industry of 1990

    Even despite getting completely fucked over by Chuck, we see here that Jimmy did have an opportunity to earn a partner track position. And through his own hard work, without any cons or nepotism.

    The basketball court scene is literally the only thing I still remember about that movie — and yet, if I recall correctly, Statham's subplot begins and ends with that scene and it has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

    Morgan appears in the very first episode, as the man who saves Rick's life after he wakes up from his coma. Morgan explains all the zombie rules to Rick and the audience. We also meet his son, Duane, and find out that his wife was bitten and that they forced her out of the house when she turned. As Rick leaves

    Chuck is clearly so revered at the firm that Hamlin forced every single employee to play along with Chuck's psychosomatic electrical sensitivity after 18 months of bringing no money into the firm while suffering a total mental breakdown.

    But again, how did Jimmy get to that point? If Hamlin had just let him review documents for HHM for six months after he passed the bar, and hired him as an associate when he earned it, Jimmy would never have been a scrambling public defender forced to team up with a parking lot attendant accused of murder.

    Here is the show's problem with race — for the most part, the show's white male characters get deep backstories and attempts at psychological complexity. The show's black characters are zombie fodder with mere sketches of internal conflict.

    This actually wasn't a *huge* stretch. Morgan knew the location of the prison from his meeting with Rick in "Clear." We know that there were signs for Terminus along the train tracks very close to the prison, because the main characters start seeing them almost immediately after the prison battle. Presumably Morgan