Yep! I think there’s probably too much in the book for a movie adaptation to feel satisfying to Gaiman fans, but there’s absolutely no reason why you couldn’t have adapted the book as one 10-13 episode season that satisfactorily covered everything relevant from the book.

My take is when networks make decisions like this they should say so and explain why, but I don’t think the act of editing racist content from old TV shows is problematic at all. In this specific case my bet would be that they kept quiet about it because an explanation of the removal requires either an apology from…

It is very weird to me that the AV Club has done more and more “quick blog post about a thing that’s trending on twitter” articles in the last year or two but the writers often seem unaware of why the thing they’re writing about is trending and uninterested in finding out. It’s fine (and probably healthy) to be…

Yeah, aside from the general awfulness of social media it seems like being famous on social media carries its own particular brand of awfulness. If you ever look at the replies to a famous person’s tweets within the first five or so you will find (a) nasty, personal criticisms of the famous person that have nothing to…

I’m pretty sure Stan Lee had never met a French person when he decided that this character needed to be written in dialect.

I am genuinely excited for Venom 2. The first one scratched an itch that I didn’t know I had for unselfconsciously campy superhero movie. Every single actor in the film, most of all Tom Hardy, seemed to be asking themselves in every scene, “What’s the most bizarre acting choice I could make here?” I loved it.

Yep. Audiences are pretty sold on whatever kind of goofy comic book bullshit you want to throw at them, provided it has reasonably good writing, acting, and special effects, but there is still a subset of creators out there who are desperately insecure about working on a comic book property and seem to be imagining…

I think part of the problem when creators think about how to “make Superman work” in the modern era is that they envision the stiff, buttoned up Superman of the Silver Age plopped into our times - a Superman who never has self-doubt, has the morals of a Puritan, and has unwavering faith in the American government,…

It would be better if the Marvel movies did more practical effects for sure, but at least I can usually tell who is hitting what and why in those movies.

Serious question - I am not trolling, genuinely asking as someone who knows next to nothing about visual effects - why do the DC movies look like such dogshit? Wonder Woman looked good and Man of Steel looked ok, but Justice League and BvS both look so bad that you often struggle to follow what’s supposed to be…

Congrats and happy birthday! Sounds like a great way to spend the day.

That’s fair - I think I was less putting myself in Wanda’s shoes and more imagining how devastating it would be for me to hug my kids at night knowing that I’d never see them again. I think it was an attempt at emotional manipulation from the writers and it worked a number on me! 

Some of the fake outs (especially Fietro) felt cheap, and it felt like a waste to have Kathryn Hahn be such a one-note villain at the end of of episode 8 and throughout episode 9 given how fantastic she’d been previously, but overall I really like this show, not least because it tried to do something genuinely new and…

I watched At Worlds End on a plane once and turned it off with about 40 minutes to go because I was so bored. Do you know how boring a movie has to be for me to turn it off even though I still have several hours left in my flight? I have not watched any of the Pirates movies since and I feel good about my decision. 

I gradually fell off because I got so tired of the endless cycle of “characters withhold the truth from each other for no reason, fall out over it, make up just in time to defeat the big bad, and Barry mopes the whole time.” At this point I might be done with the show entirely unless people still watching can tell me…

Agree with all of that, but also in the first season of Arrow he kills so many people! Oliver’s body count is in the dozens and except when one of his teammates wants to call him a hypocrite it rarely comes up. 

I think Murphy Brown is a very good comparison - it was popular when it was airing but the first time I heard about it was in a middle school social studies text book that mentioned George HW Bush using it as an example of the low moral standards of primetime television. Aside from a few mentions here and there on…

I guess I’m just skeptical that Punky Brewster has that kind of cache. I was born in 1987 and grew up in a house that watched plenty of family-friendly sitcoms, and reruns of older sitcoms, and I had literally never heard of Punky Brewster until “I Love the 80s,” which aired when I was in high school. Obviously it was…

Who is this for? The youngest people who would have watched Punky Brewster when it originally aired are in their early 40s now, and the average super fan of the show is probably in their mid-to-late 40s. That does not strike me as a demographic that is going to subscribe to a new streaming service solely to indulge in…

This to me is the enormous blindspot in complaints like Scorsese’s. Would I have seen a movie like Tigertail if it weren’t on Netflix? Would I have seen One Night in Miami if not for Amazon Prime? And more so than their film releases, how many of the streaming services’ TV shows that are driven by women and people of…