Agreed. I think Shiv handled herself well, and maybe Matsson was impressed with her, and maybe-maybe the blood story is real, but more than anything I think he’s just looking for a back channel he can dump the minute the deal is signed.

Mandalore lore (for lack of a better term) does nothing for me, so this season was largely a drag. The prospect of a return to more “adventure of the week” storytelling has me cautiously optimistic for next season, however, especially if “Ahsoka” can keep that chump Filoni as far from the writers’ room as possible.

F*ck…

Ah yes, the "he beats me but I deserve it" defense. 

Exactly, they’re strip clubs with a wink at the camera. “The patrons of this establishment aren’t here for nudity, look at the artistic performances on display. Why, any nudity is purely incidental.”

How Did This Get Made talked about this in a few episodes featuring 80s movies. Their theory is that these weird dance/cabaret joints are stand-ins for strip clubs. In the 80s, studios and the American media at large started to create a strong divide between movies that got R-ratings for violence and/or the F-word vs…

Yeah, but those could all be lies. Not trying to be snarky or anything here, but that’s the whole puzzle of dealing with a person who will say almost literally anything if it gets the listener to do his bidding. There could have been three times as many examples of Logan saying he loved Ken and wanted him to take…

I had a similar feeling in the first ep of the season where Greg was the only one willing to sharply come back at Logan’s request to be roasted. But I don’t think this show would go with something so outlandish. If I had to guess, maybe he ends up with Kerry when she approaches him with some unsubstantiated info given…

The increasing amount of power he wanted to give to Marsha was never fully resolved, right? Does she still get two board votes (or maybe three? Wasn’t there something about her son getting/wanting a board seat?) I know the kids didn’t agree to the change in the trust, but I don’t remember how much that effects the…

My suspicion is that Greg thought Tom was giving him a message when he said “don’t tell anyone, but if anyone finds out, make sure they know I was with him.”

There’s definitely a chance that someone tipped off the press, either Gerri or maybe Greg who thought Tom was winking when he said “don’t tell anyone, but if someone finds out, make sure they know I was here.”

But at the same time, they mentioned flight trackers, and we’ve seen in real life how easy it is to track…

Trust me, people in similar situations say that all the time. 

The Sopranos was only supposed to be four seasons. The third season finale was basically one hour of the writers just stacking the deck against Tony both professionally and in his family, ramping up for what promised to be a brutal final set of episodes. At the time, I mentioned to my friend that there were so many…

I think it was around the time Shiv gave the phone back to her brothers that I realized this was not some shitheel Logan ploy just to make his kids realize  how much they need him.

I have a feeling we’re going to reach the end of this extended Warner Bros. retrospective series and be told that - gasp! - they were all written by ChatGPT (or something similar.)

The Onion knew better, but tons of media dooes didn’t. Craig Kilbourn at the time mentioned that Time/Warner was changing its name to "AOL's Bitch." 

I agree wholeheartedly... except for the last sentence. I don’ttmean to knock Clone Wars or any other Wars; I just really prefer the smaller scale Mandalorian show: bounty hunter and his sidekick having adventures across the galaxy every week, and sometimes there’s a tie-in to an umbrella narrative. This episode…

The writing, direction, and pacing met the goofiness of the visuals and guest performances by keeping things light and zippy. It was a really fun 40 minutes that felt like 20 (in a good way.) Fun action, a non-desert planet, and a self-contained adventure that set aside some time at the end for “big picture” plot…

25 years ago, Warner Brothers’ 75th anniversary was a triumph. They created a traveling week-long film festival featuring films from specific decades each day. Look at this lineup:

I think it’s just a turn of phrase. Jolson loved blackface as much as DeSantis loves Covid.

Jack Warner not only rushed the stage for the Casablanca Oscar, he had his underlings seated near Wallis and put them under orders to make a wall to keep Wallis from reaching the stage first (or at all.)