Seeing the supernatural used three seasons in a row kinda presents a pattern. Idk if it’s all Coen Brothers homage. The UFO out of left field could be traced to The Man Who Wasn’t There. Last season’s comeuppance for the Russian hitman was interesting. It took place in a Lebowski type setting, sure, but the Narrator…

Montrose’s monologue directly into camera got me. That was -wow- something else. It felt like a real survivor’s account transcribed into the show. Wonder if it was.

I haven’t read the novels, but didn’t the show mention (at least in passing) that everyone on the show is like 70 to 90 years old? More even? Everyone in the Expanse future has developed double-length life expectancies. Right? Thus Naomi and her son can look roughly the same age. I forget who, but it was Looper or…

I didn’t notice that, good catch.

Shit, that movie traumatized me -- and I saw it when I was 40.

I watched Cat People (the original b&w) the other night for the first time on TCM. It holds up well & is better appreciated for its beautiful noir staging and lighting. It’s kind of low-stakes (which is refreshing - in its way) as in “OMG will she change and kill one or two people?!”

Yeah, watch Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein back-to-back. They work together as one 3 hour and 10 min movie. The sequel picks up literally 5 minutes after the original ends. Same actors, same sets. Its like they took a weekend off and kept filming from one to the other. Plus they’re good.

Lol. Especially for that complicated lattice-job that hides the zipper on the back of his head.

I had the same reaction, but when Marcus flipped the script (and his wig) and claimed he was the prophesized one, I was back on board. The interesting wrinkle is that the planet itself is an entity whispering whatever anyone wants to believe about themselves in their brains, as long as they hurry up and help the evil…

See, I never for a moment thought Congresswoman Neuman was anything other than a setup for future superpowers. Why? First time onscreen in ep 3 (was it?) I was like, “Oh man, you don’t cast a woman with that hair and NOT put her in a supersuit.” Gorgeous model-level congresswoman bit-part ... nah. She was destined for…

Mike’s gone all Journeyman. “Evil” on CBS and whatever this Zoomy thing is on HBO. (right?) Whatever he appears in from now on, as far as I’m concerned, he’s still Luke Cage - just captured somewhere and forced to live these hyper-real Framework-style alternate lives.

His make-up is more fucked-up than usual ... meaning his usual specialist is sick with Covid too. Watch his hair spiral out of control over the next few days as he starts using up the back-bench stylists.

Well Josto, Rabbi, and Ethelrida all are characters with feet in two worlds through no fault of their own. If this season is about anything, it’ll be about these characters being tested.

I might be giving the show too much credit, but Schwartzman and Rock might have been cast purposefully because they balance each other’s awkwardness. Rock seems too youthful for this dad role (which is the actor just being himself for the most part) and Schwartzman seems too immature for this heavy role (which is,…

I posted a clip of “Meglio Stasera” from The Pink Panther way down at the end of the thread. Another Blake Edwards/Henry Mancini classic.

Sorry my reply is coming in wa-aay at the end of this thread. But “Moon River” had me thinking of another Blake Edwards classic. I actually thought of this one right away when the category rules and parameters were discussed. Not that I’m an old-oldster, but when I first saw this... I was young, I think it was on WGN,…

I think it also made sense in that as Becca tried to paper over her desperation to keep Ryan this season, try as she might, the kid would pick up on it. “Mom’s getting more and more stressed out. Why is that?” ... “Oh, I see why. Our lives are a lie and we live in a prison.” ... “and Mom knew. Mom knew I had a…

One of my Trump theories is that he watched Green Acres as a kid and patterned his ideas of what marriage should be based on the show. Filtered through his abused mush-brain.

I agree. And Montrose showed shame on his face. Even shame that could be read as “I don’t deserve this.” It’s tough, though. His character is the abuse handed down from generation to generation. I think I’ll take some of my own medicine and wait until his “arc” or whatever you want to call it gets some further…

Nailed it. This isn’t just Fargo. It’s an all-Coen Brothers pastiche. S3 was like that too, what with its Lebowski bowling alley detour. When I first saw the commercials for this I said, “Ope, Fargo’s doing Miller’s Crossing this season.”