Looks like it’s not streaming anywhere, unfortunately. I’d gotten it on DVDs from Netflix before they stopped that.

I rewatched the series a year or so ago, maybe a little more, and while it is definitely of its time, it’s also a bit ahead of its time (a single-camera, laugh-track-free sitcom, in the late 80s). And it holds up fairly well, too.

Then you have something like Spawn #1, which had a print run of close to two million units, and which was hoarded/preserved by people thinking it’d put their kids through college one day. You can find that thing for under $20 now (ungraded).

True, but maybe that’s better than the current reviews often not mentioning the musical guest’s performance at all...

It was great.

No but the name is vaguely familiar. I’ll look into it.

All that is true, especially, as you say, there’s a specific show-to-show comparison being made. But it also seems like there’s been a trend in the last 4-5 years for comedies to be founded upon examinations of grief, or trauma, or similar (and more typically dramatic) angles, and I got the impression points were…

And though Made-Up Adventures lacks Our Flag’s raw emotionality, it’s still a very good time.

If anyone ever decides to embark on a harebrained scheme like remaking some Toshiro Mifune movies, they could do a lot worse than casting Sanada.

As I read the article I was thinking “This sounds as self-indulgent and probably doomed as Waterworld and The Postman”, so I’m kind of glad this also occurred to other people as well, at least somewhat.

Jeez dude, it’s just a review of an uneven comedy show. No need for all the vitriol.

The character, no*, but Waterston... well, maybe also no, but it was, what, 3 minutes of screen time a week (not counting this last episode, that is) and like half an hour of prep and filming, for what had to be a pretty good paycheck? Hard to say no to that.

It works on so many levels!

Knox Harrington? The video artist?

It seems like something Amazon could just have a college intern come in and do for a couple of hours— watch some shows, write down some time stamps where ads can go without disrupting the flow, hand ‘em off to a coder or someone, and yer done.

Aside from maybe the first Venom, have any of the Spidey-adjacent movies worked, or even been any good at all?

I watched a couple of movies in the last week and there were ads just at the beginning. However I also watched a few episodes of the Kids In The Hall revival and there were ads dropped in every, I don’t know, 6-8 minutes or so, without any attention paid to natural breaks (between sketches, say, instead of right…

I never thought I’d say this, but if Noah Hawley wanted to take a crack at The Dark Crystal, I’d be totally on board

“Paid” features the refrain “I’m just here to get paid” and includes some lyrics from Police’s “Roxanne”

You jest, but since I actually just watched the (inferior, though, you know, adequate) remake a couple of days ago... she’s not in that one.