I’m OK with it having more serious themes, and the related serial rather than episodic structure. I would not say it is the best such attempt I have ever seen, but I find it at least good enough to be a positive experience overall for me.

After my parents divorced, my Mom met her old HS boyfriend at a reunion. His wife had passed away, they reconnected, and then they got remarried. And it was a successful remarriage for both until he eventually also passed away.

I know it has come under reconsideration of late, but I don’t think Buffy was THAT greasy . . . .

Yeah, I taught introductory college classes when I was in my 20s. On a couple occasions some attractive students hit on me, and I politely made it clear that nothing between us was possible. It wasn’t that hard, because it was obviously wrong to me.

Yeah, that trailer was very promising.

Unemployed Americans from coal country?

Ha, I personally identified SO strongly with Mike on my first watch that I kinda hated the movie. It eventually became a personal favorite, but it took some doing (and actually getting married myself, I suspect).

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…