. . .so many people see the show through the lens of comparison to Hannibal. . .

They just explained to you how all TV shows work. There are all kinds of behind-the-scenes issues that have a lot to do with determining why there are cast changes. Why is this or that character still on the show? Partly because everyone really likes the actor who is professional and adds to a positive atmosphere on…

Let’s break this down. I don’t think any live action network TV show has made a 39 episode season in the past 50 years.

It is in fact an adaptation of the stage musical, and therefore not exactly a remake.

Are you not even going to mention the extended Iron Man homage where Bruce’s new Batsuit is blatantly Stark-like complete with individual components that automatically assemble on his body and a chatty AI with data screens on the inside of a full face-plate. I think they even created specific images based directly on…

I’m assuming that there is a dormant Stubbs pearl installed in a decomposing host body in the adjacent bathroom now that the ice is melted. One hopes that it will be installed into a newly printed body next season, because why would they want to lose a Hemsworth in such a throwaway fashion.

I just rewatched much of the SyFy reboot when they did a marathon a few weeks ago. For the most part, it held up extremely well. I will reserve judgement, but I don’t see the point of reimagining the reboot —especially since far less time has elapsed than there was between the original series and Ronald D. Moore’s…

Was the “new” Dolores body that Caleb found in a trunk not actually the original Dolores body? Her face opened to accept her pearl in the same way that early hosts were shown to do in previous seasons, rather than having it inserted through the crown of the skull. When Maeve’s katana gets stuck in the metal armature…

I’m not sure that The Flash got to finish its full season this year. Like a lot of shows, they got cut off about a month to 6 weeks early, so if there’s a cliffhanger, it may not exactly have been intentional. A lot of shows lost about between 1 and 3 episodes which they are expected to make up when the next season…

It was a little more in keeping with original 1970s Isis’ origin story in which the totem actually belonged to the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut.

I’m not sure I totally agree with some of your third paragraph. I think that the showrunners of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. made it clear that having to link their show to an increasingly sprawling MCU made it too difficult for them to tell the show’s own original stories. It was creatively stifling and logistically…

Do I want to go back to the movies? Of course I do. Just like I’d like go back to doing everything else I would normally be doing that I can’t right now -like working, for example. I live in New York, and inhabiting a fully populated ghost town has gotten tiresome. Times Square really is still empty, not that I would…

I was under the impression that Operation Paperclip happened arounf the time that S.H.I.E.L.D. was created, so Hydra didn’t so much infiltrate the organization as it was built in from the start.

I think that it’s more likely that Luke is trying to suggest to Kate that it’s impossible to be the kind of vigilante she wants to be without a few casualties, and that she shouldn’t feel so bad if the people she kills would just as soon have killed her or any number of other people. I tend to doubt that they would…

Actually, I remember the show’s cast rotating more toward the later seasons after Landau and Barbara Bain left, with more cast changes every season. The first three seasons seemed to consistently feature the classic team of Landau, Bain, Greg Morris & Peter Lupus with Peter Graves (Phelps) added in season 2. The…

In the last one, Fallout, Tom Cruise, who is currently 57 years old, really started to show his age. The stunts looked fine, but as with Roger Moore in his later Bond movies, he is just pushing the limits of plausibility for him to be somebody hanging off of helicopters and such. By the time they get to Number 8, I’m…

Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner and Alec Baldwin have been added and returned to varying degrees over the course of the series. The women, like Patton, for example, who was implied to have joined the “team” at the end of MI-Ghost Protocol, have been essentially disposable until the most recent installment, Fallo…

Apparently, if you already subscribe to HBO or have any relationship with AT&T (DirecTV, AT&T Wireless, Internet or AT&T TV etc.) you will get an extended free 3-month launch promotion to decide if you want HBO MAX. I can’t imagine that it would make sense to make people pay an extra $15 on top of a regular HBO cable…

I don’t think that Swamp Thing has much of what you would call a passionate following. A lot of people at Warner Brothers clearly didn’t like it to begin with, because they cut the season short before it even started streaming. Also, very expensive.

TV pilots are often listed as ‘films’ on IMDB, especially when they never get picked up. It’s kind of misleading.