Most movies you can walk out of at the end and ask, "How could that have been done better?" And then come up with a point or two. Can't do that with Fury Road. It's pretty much perfect.

I liked how Beth was suddenly for no reason in a hang glider. Otherwise, yep, B+ episode. The review is correct. No harm, no foul.

Nailed it on the J’onn comments. The brother/brother make-up sesh actually got me. Both actors are so good and have such a deep well of good-nerd-cred going for them that I thought their scene was heartfelt, even while they were in the throws of tortured mind-meld dialogue. They went for it. It was over the top. I…

He’s a pathological contrarian. That’s the kindest way to put it.

Mitch Pileggi on Supergirl might cause me to watch this first rather than Watchmen - which has lately been relegating Kara & Co to the On Demand service, usually not viewed until Wednesday.

That’s how I feel about Doctor Who threads.

I binged the whole series over the last two weeks, averaging 3 eps a day. After I commented elsewhere that I hoped the showrunners would age-up the characters, lo and behold, they did it with Glimmer in particular. I like the one shot early in the Coronation episode where they made Glimmer look more like her mom.

Once you get her comment about jumping to her death, its imprinted on your brain! Now every time she stares off into space, you know she’s thinking about offing herself or someone nearby ... or both. Starring into the bathtub! What is she thinking? ... She’s not thinking about taking a nice bubble bath. 

Thanks for helping me remember that scene. More stars. More stars for you!

I understand that. Still working through my feelings for it all. Certainly children died and young people suffered consequences. Tarantula Kid, Brock, and even Walt Jr specifically. The kids dealing on the playground and empty lots got a plot-line early on. I get that the stakes needed to be focused and made personal.

Draper’s story is so symbolically tied to “all media” that he was always a more intellectual exercise throughout the show: New Yorker moves west and has an emotional breakthrough in California. But Peggy and Stan ... that felt romantic and real to me. I could see a Gen Xer saying “... and that’s how my parents met.”…

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Peggy and Stan in the finale was a bigger emotional punch than anything else at the end.

I still enjoy BB and El Camino was great, but I feel now, in retrospect, they left behind the real effects of meth (what little there was to begin with) in seasons 1 & 2. To be fair, I haven’t done a rewatch. It just seemed to me that it left the real effects of drug addiction way behind the more they got into the…

There we go. Came looking for this! Still seeing if anyone mentioned The Magicians too.

It’s a goofy plot-pretzel show. Jason’s Florida-isms & Tahani’s rich-folk anecdotes are still amusing, but the show’s sell-by date and show climax are going to coincide just about perfectly.

Watched Johnny Eager last night on TCM followed by Bye Bye Birdie. Johnny Eager was pretty great. It’s a Mervyn LeRoy picture (Wizard of Oz) film noir. Lana Turner has a mental breakdown at the 2/3 mark that is subtle and really great. Good little gangster swindles throughout.

Much like the Twelve Days or Christmas they should do the Ten Days of Impeachment and introduce a new article each day counting down to the biggest one. Open each day with a vote to have that day’s vote be a secret ballot. Four hours of debate, four hours of rebuttal. Gavel in at 10am. Have the goal of final vote and…

I appreciate that. I empathize with people who don’t or won’t buy in to franchise behemoths. If someone or a group of someones harangue you into watching something, the constant harangue can become so annoying that said behemoth is already starting out in a hole. Sample argument: my sister is a music teacher at an…

Me too. I’m in my 40's, my son was with me, he was 17 at the time ... he thought I was nuts.