What are the regular Oscar frontrunners? Does anyone know? Does anyone give a shit? I feel like the Oscars should skip it this year and just have two year collective awards show in 2022.

Each 9 episode season of The Mandalorian is about the same length of time as a filmed trilogy. Ballpark 6 1/2 hours. This must have been planned. Has Fav or Feloni confirmed this somewhere?

I'm more interested in the hard gulp Disney+ is liable to do in the event this show goes dark ... really dark. Dead lover? Dead children? Wanda going mad? That's some "take-care of the Younglings" level darkness. Okay, sure, for the MCU ... but Disney+? Gulp.

Sandine Holt as Oksana (Drummer’s Number One) is the MVP’s MVP.

Yeah, that was a good read. I remember when the movie came out and I was working for a movie theater at the time, feeling that “Ah, this is why Warner’s can’t or won’t make funny Looney Tunes anymore: Disney has stolen the special sauce.”

VB could more rightly be credited with crossing over with Johnny Quest as Race Bannon dies in a season one parachuting accident (he and Brock were tight back in the day) and Johnny, Doctor Zimm, and even Hadji have multiple guest appearances. Not official crossovers, sure, but they were right up to the line this-close/…

Clouds is fantastic. 

Tonight is also the penultimate episode of The Expanse Season 5. (I think ... ... next week’s ep has the novel’s title, Nemesis Games, which usually signals the last episode of the season.)

Good side project. Awesome single. Two versions:

Fear of Victory is a solid bit of animation from beginning to end. Batman’s cross through the swooning lady’s apartment is right out of Cary Grant in North By Northwest.

I wonder sometimes if people write these to function as either stand alone movies or TV show pilots. All this set-up sounds like a TV show. “Get me a show that’s quirky and weird like Twin Peaks! But not too weird! Lighter like L.A. Law but still with a serial killer, capisce?”

Sunday night’s Batwoman was, again, very solid. Alice’s dialogue practically sings: four different sarcastic takes on Pennyworth’s last name before - ope - stabbing her in the side with a butterfly knife.

The moment when the psychiatrist’s hypnotizing watch reflects across Harvey’s face as it swung back and forth made me go, “Yep. This is an A episode. No two ways about it.”

Would you two just get a room already!? Sheesh.

An “Epilogue” title card and/or a bit of voice over from Cate Blanchett could have been a nice bookend and still signaled that there was another 20 minutes left. It might be a problem with American audiences that expect a 5 minute wrap-up after things go Boom... this and a movie-theater-trained expectation of bladder…

They want The Witcher. And “Hey... we got all these swords and shit in storage - just sitting there - gathering dust.”

Elton John doing Crocodile Rock

Thanks. I was too lazy to Google it. Trump’s will no doubt be a VR “library” replete with nausea and seizure disclaimers.

Lawrence O’Donnell and Andrea Mitchell have their eyes on retirement. Chris Hayes could use a switch up. Maddow should take a three month vacation just to settle her nerves. When she gets back, send Nichole Wallace on a similar sized vacation. Retire Chuck Todd and give Meet the Press to Hallie Jackson. They got Shep…

I wonder how many presidential libraries have aged out and gone out of business. Like the Rutherford B Hayes library is just a cardboard box in somebody’s garage right now.