Where are the people nostalgic for 1940s/1950s New York? That seems to me a hell of a lot more interesting than the 1970s variant that is obsessed over so.

And he was deeply unwilling to take directions from others, which worked great for him musically, but otherwise……

Or "screenwriter doesn't have honesty to admit to the sort of man this film is idolizing".

Joel apparently mentioned that Netflix has until the end of the month to renew it, and, given that we've seen no evidence of any movement on that, it doesn't seem to bode well for the option being picked up.

*Showtime, on the other hand, doesn't get hacked at all, because it has no Web presence whatsoever*

Why so much of what he wants seems to be in direct service of Univision's interests, on the other hand……

Am I right in understanding that a lot of it would have been better set to "Yakety Sax"?

True, but there's always Gresham's Law to keep in mind in such situations.

On the one hand, the man was finally in a massive success after all these years that can be attributable to him.

But with Mike Judge still playing Hank Hill.

Is it wrong that I get the biggest kick out of the footage at the end showing two of the real Newton Boys giving interviews in the 1970s and 1980s?

Especially since this is a discussion of filmography, rather than an individual film- you can't really make a coherent argument of that nature without a specific focus.

Are we sure that was what he wanted, as opposed to what he had to do?

Are we sure that's not what Casey Affleck does in his spare time?

*Realizes too late that he both missed the joke and misread the post, decides to backtrack the best way he knows how*

And note that some of the episodes in that first season had under a million viewers, so another part of it was the patience of AMC in building an audience.

Well, it looks likely that MST3K is going to be going off the air again- why not use them to replace it?

And even that might not be enough…..

Quite- I can't say if this would have been good if it were sincere, but it probably would have been more interesting…..

And it can't help that he's been dabbling with being a big-shot for a decade or so now without being particularly effective at being one…..