I'm seeing Batman vs. Superman for Wonder Woman. I might nap during the scenes she's not it.

In general, the Bezzerides storyline was the part of that season that probably worked best (give or take that ill-conceived "orgy" scene, of course).

Can't remember, but it was around the end of S3. Maybe I just confused Roy and Ray because, again, it's absolutely ridiculous to have two characters on the same show, on the same team, with those two names.

This sudden reminder that Roy exists has also reminded me that he supposedly left because he was going to move to Legends of Tomorrow. What ever happened with that? Did the writers decide that having characters named Roy and Ray on the same team was too confusing?

So just to be clear, you think the notion that Grease has iffy gender politics is some Johnny-come-lately, 21st century, tumblr invention? Because I'm here to tell you, I first watched the movie in grade school, lo these many years ago, and after it ended my girlfriends and I all agreed that it was a lot of fun, but…

It lost nearly half its audience from episode 1 to episode 2. Some of that is no doubt the Sunday/Monday shift, but it still seems like an extreme drop.

Taymor is the person who made the Lion King musical into a commercial and critical bonanza, along the way proving that the whole concept of a Disney musical was viable. Giving her money and wide leeway is the most defensible decision imaginable. It's just that sometimes when you set a genius loose you get a mess…

I don't know. In three months we will have had the third retelling of the same Spider-Man origin story in the space of a little more than a decade. In light of that, trying to make something new of the character feels a lot more forgivable.

I read a lot about Turn Down the Dark when it was failing, struggling to get back on its feet, and failing again, because I found the entire trainwreck completely fascinating. Everything I read convinced me that while Julie Taymor may be a genius, she genuinely didn't give a damn about Spider-Man. I don't mean to…

So, that line is a quote of a quote, and since the original quote is by me I thought I'd clarify that what I originally wrote was "I think that a huge component of the appeal that Hamilton holds for fannish people is that it is so obviously the creation of a fannish person." You can feel Miranda's fascination with…

Ophelia Lovibond (yes, really).

Moana is a princess movie based on a Polynesian folktale, and the songs are being written by Lin-Manuel Miranda (of Hamilton fame). So I'm pretty hopeful about it. Everything else, you're right, looks pretty dire.

In fairness, Thawne was a thoroughly underdeveloped character who seemed to exist mainly because the producers desperately wanted some way to keep Tom Cavanagh around after S1. The show never seemed entirely clear where Thawne ended and Harrison Wells started, so I can't blame the characters for being confused on…

I watched the first two episodes and came to the conclusion that the show was well-made and well-intentioned, but not really for me. And that would be the end of it, except that it also really makes AA look like a cult. "I don't belong here! I'm not an addict!" "Ah, but the fact that you say that shows how much…

Are they still seeing each other? That strikes me as the sort of thing you'd share, if you want your relationship to last.

I think if you create the expectation of a grand conspiracy, a great truth that will one day be revealed, it's a problem if you have no way of paying that off.

I was going to say, when I started reading your comment, that Lost also took advantage of that sense of a huge mystery of which we were seeing only small parts, and then you mentioned it yourself. I think people's mileage varies greatly on how long they're willing to tolerate that kind of teasing before the knowledge…

Does Mulder actually accomplish anything, except to piss Scully off? As usual, he runs off half-cocked trying to prove a theory, doesn't save anyone's life, and needs to be rescued himself.

I had pretty much the opposite reaction. The love story is pretty much the only thing that works. Whishaw and Holcroft are great at conveying longing and instant connection, and while the style favors long silences and looks in a way that could easily be annoying, I don't think it's ever in any doubt that there's…

The individual episodes are good, but they don't tie together into anything. And more importantly, Fringe's mythology is just more interesting. The X-Files kept going on about the truth being out there, but its writers clearly had no idea what that truth was, or how to make it more interesting than "aliens exist and…