Agreed.  Take your possum.

Absolutely.

Given that setup, no. You are just going to see the other characters going all the way to 11. So if you found them annoying already, I can’t imagine having much fun with the show in general. Indeed, I think simply enjoying the characters is intended to be a huge part of the appeal (for those of us who liked it in the…

So far it feels to me entirely one-sided.  I interpreted their “moment” on watch in the third episode as fantasy by Peacemaker.  At least I hope so.

Piecemaker.

Peacemaker meeting Robotman in the field would be hilarious as inevitably both would think the other was a raging a-hole, without any self-awareness.

I think the best romantic comedies, including Roman Holiday, are arguably a bit more than just well-done empty calories to the extent they have something important, and unusual, to say about romantic relationships, and good lives in general.

My biggest source of hope at this point is Rodriguez apparently only directed one more of the final four episodes.

HBO Go was the service HBO channel subscribers used to get. In the U.S., it has been decommissioned and replaced with HBO Max.

Editor didn’t understand the phrase, “will crack like a safe holding a Faberge egg.”

Johnson’s Trump was actually a personal lowlight for me. I recognize its technical excellence, but in the current context I just can’t find that sort of characterization of Trump funny. There is an old distinction between satire and kidding, where satire is at root a kind of social criticism, and kidding actually…

She married into one of the wealthiest families in Ireland in 1994, and that is when the first phase of her acting career stopped. She picked up again around ten years later, around the time of her separation. Probably not coincidences.

Her whole story really makes no sense in context without Aphrodite making it possible for Paris to seduce her. Indeed, her backstory is she was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (or perhaps Nemesis), as heroically exceptional in her own way as Hercules or other demi-gods. She was already captured once before, unsuccessfull…

My sense is the consensus at the time is Pitt’s Achilles was not at all a good take on the character, but that was more a reflection of the ill-conceived writing and direction than on Pitt himself.

Ha. I was a big Greek mythology fan as a kid and desperately wanted to like Troy. I did not, and in particular thought the way they decided to tell the story was really disappointing, and yet—it was still glorious to LOOK at.

Yeah, what necgray listed as vices mostly work pretty well for me in the context of an over-the-top movie, for a character who then has to go even further over the top for his heel turn.

I’d suggest his two best “big movie star” roles outside of the FF series were Moana and Jumanji.  And I think that list supports your thesis that there is a very specific way he can be used to good effect, but it is not necessarily all that easy to do in a really effective way.

Going from sensitive to throat-puncher at an older age is also known in the biz as “pulling an Irish”.

Didn’t this story come out before? I could swear I read it a couple years ago, and maybe more than that time.

The Great and Succession both seem to me like ideal candidates for “ensemble” awards.