Reefer Madness: the Musical is ballpark 20 years old from around the time they shot it and premiered it on Showtime. It shoulda been in theaters. Rerelease it in theaters Paramount you bastards!! If nothing else, for the Kristen Bell nuts out there.
In my head I put “Mare of Easttown” and “The Night of...” as unofficial “True Detective” series entries.
Tangentially with Tenet: what comes to mind when thinking of actor Kenneth Branagh? Ham? Cheese? Ham and Cheese? Gilderoy Lockheart?
College was the first episode I saw. “This show is supposed to be good,” was what I was reading/hearing for a few weeks. I don’t think HBO prescreened any of it for critics, so everyone came to it at about the same time - 3 or 4 weeks in. If you see the wave cresting, I bet College was the first for lots of people. I…
I really liked it too. So many people shit on it because Tony wasn’t the main character. It was a tangent. So what? Go with the tangent. If reactions hadn’t been so overblown, Chase would have kept making these - like one every two years or so. Corey Stoll, Vera Farmiga, and Jon Bernthal could have been a great core…
In summary: “Here’s an award, Rick, and thank you for repeatedly shitting on the previous HFPA administration.”
She-Hulk badly needed 16 episodes so that say... 5 could suck and 11 could be great, instead of the 4 and 4 (or whatever) we got. You can feel the quality start to trend upward, then whack - season is over for two or more years.
This is where Fringe did it right. To a lesser extent Bones got there too for a few seasons. Fringe’s one-offs usually got call-backs too, which was fine but sometimes unnecessary.
Mash together Jessica Jones and Pokerface - now that would be a show.
I liked that he gave Benjamin Franklin the trait that all of his famous truisms (Stitch in time... etc) were more like quirks that he couldn’t control and he had to bite his tongue to not say them or else they’d annoy whomever he was talking to, including himself.
Idk, I’d grant you that Ahsoka went from no-boil to low simmer. After a decade of White Walkers and Walking Dead, I’m not huge on undead stormtroopers, but I am overall into Dathomir and the Witch Sisterhood etc. Ahsoka seemed like set-up for bigger stuff to come.
Or, like 2015, between Axe Cop and Major Lazer. (Which still supports the point, because FX’s Animation Domination should also have come out a decade or more prior.)
I’ll be this guy. It was the funniest one of the night, which is saying something because it beat out all his “return” characters. With this caveat: Eddie improvs a comment to Chloe that is to be kind, cringe, dated, but ... possibly in character. Don’t unpack it and just enjoy the full skit. I thought this might…
“Dink-a-dink-a-dink.”
Barbie was good. It was a dance party. Then it had a lol... mm... once every ten minutes. That’s it. Do not make a sequel. Best Equivalent: Enchanted and Disenchanted. Don’t do it.
Naked Westrosi Cottage Remodeling
Well, in the interest of AV occasionally updating these lists (as evidenced by this year’s correction at #1) I’d like to advocate for Season 4 episode 9 of Dexter. “Hungry Man” came out in 2009. This was the “Trinity Killer” season guest starring John Lithgow as the big bad. Dexter spends Thanksgiving with Arthur…
Don’t sleep on Raised by Wolves. Scott and his son produced the show and Ridley directed S1E1. The show captured a feeling of really cerebral and weird sci-fi - 70's pulp sci-fi book cover art type stuff. I kept hoping he’d direct more episodes, but the show’s tone was held together so tightly that there wasn’t ever…
#GONYSchoonmakerCut
Well, he caused me to shed a tear as he trapped himself in his new tree, so round of applause for a masterful bookend.
