I never started. I was looking forward to it because Lindelof back on TV is worth being excited for, but as the premiere approached I realized that I was at a place in life where I really couldn't stomach a meditation on grief and loss, so I let it pass me by. I'll catch up on it someday now that those things that…

Four stars for Alien: Covenant from MZS: http://www.rogerebert.com/r…

Haynes, Miike, Sheridan, Bong Joon-ho, Mitchell, Lynch.

I like the playfulness of stuff like that. Fuller, Slade, and company are clearly having fun with their imagery when they can. It's why I liked the severed arm flying off of the screen and into the letterboxes in the premiere.

Conversely, if you have a film that gets booed out of Cannes, there's a chance to get rid of it before official reviews start rolling in.

I can honestly say that my answers to some of these are different than they would have been before American Gods started airing.

"Gentle" is a good word for how the show has treated different religions and religious rites. It's been very generous and open handed in how it depicts beliefs that don't get much play on TV, and then usually only in one dimensional ways. Even something as potentially gruesome as the heart ripping or as potentially…

The show is doing a good job giving him more to play than book Shadow had. TV show Shadow is more an active participant due to his disbelief, which gives him some different shades to play as he is confronted with increasing levels of unbelievable stuff that he can't deny. Book Shadow was willing to just go along for…

The scales get used in the book, yes. During Shadow's vigil.

She remains a national treasure.

It's a rare condition they call hyper-virility.

Spartacus was good about this as well. You could clearly see which sex scenes were supposed to covey how the slaves were being used for the pleasure of others and which were supposed to convey genuine love and connection between a couple. It's the difference between a sex scene and a love scene, and the Salim/Djinn…

I think I know who you thought he was, and yeah, that would have made for an…interesting reaction, to say the least. But Salim is just a guy in town for work, no more.

I thought it was great. The show is so open handed and generous in its depiction of religions that don't usually get that kind of treatment on TV, or in the US in general. It was an absolutely lovely segment, and the way they depicted the climactic moment was especially well done.

Good pick. I don't think I was able to find budget information in time for the draft so I avoided it in case it came in on the less-expensive side for a blockbuster, but a $175 million price tag makes that into a big win for you.

And that's canon!

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This was supposed to be the first film in a seven film series about all the knights of the round table.

And that's why you never plan a seven film franchise before the first one is even released.

This can't be real, right?