The last sequence (starting when they arrive at the last setting) is the most ludicrous series of mounting and increasing stakes I've seen in a movie, and it completely works. 

There is no evidence that this is a “calculated campaign”. More like a large group of people getting outraged over what they find disgusting.

Broke: Rugrats

I’ve never liked him because he always seems to show up as an ugly ethnic stereotype (Parks & Rec, Brooklyn 99, and 30 Rock all had him do a different one, they were all entirely one note, and they were barely funny).

I think “psychopath” gets thrown around a lot about politicians, but I think Mitch fits the bill. He’s smug, unpleasant, seems to to take pleasure in inflicting destructive policies on wide swaths of the American population, and as OP pointed out, doesn’t seem to actually have any set beliefs. I think he’s malevolent…

I remember Spicer. Didn’t he resign eight or nine years ago?

There’s some evidence that the audience rating is being astroturfed.

This might be some weird brain thing where I’m conflating two different memories, but at one point, didn’t Ihop have a shrimp special?

As always, it’s something that could be revised later on with sequels (?) but killing off Danny Ocean really seems... petty? I don’t know the word. A bad decision in some way.

Anyone on Earth who thinks anything productive will come out of this meeting is weapons-grade delusional.

Seriously, the woman always looks like she’s going to crumble into dust at any given moment.

I’m going to soapbox for Horizon in this post, sorry for the digression!

Hopefully the same team (and, what the hell, the same actors) do another miniseries about roughly the same content (a horrific situation that descends into madness and horror with a supernatural element).

If corporatist Democrats vote to support Trump’s agenda, then why vote for them?

This unsettled me more than the slaughter of Hickey’s people, which was just, uh “regular” horrible. There’s something to be said about horror that’s never adequately explained, and that bit absolutely nailed it.

Anyone remember THE EVENT? I thought it was truly the nadir of these aimless, poorly planned mystery box shows, but here we are. The commercials in particular were hilarious. They were like “A plane crashes for unknown reasons. That is not THE EVENT.”

Of all of those, I disagree with Gaffigan the most. Even though he may not push any boundaries and he mostly does jokes about food and the mundane, he makes me laugh more than almost any working comedian. What else is there to ask from a comedian?

Slippery slope is a logical fallacy, champ.

The one with the pregnant teen and the angry dad was the one I was thinking of. I was rewatching the series on Hulu and that episode popped up and it was so unusual for a sitcom that I figured it had to be a backdoor pilot (two suspiciously well-developed characters that the main characters knew very well but had…

Here’s (apparently) a hot take: Cruise can do these movies until he’s 80 years old for all I care. Not a single one of these has been anything less than wildly entertaining, so I have no reason to think this one won’t be fun as hell either.