Please let Bly Manor be a fun haunted house romp and not another ten hour allegory for a bunch of whiny yuppies’ personal problems. Three episodes in I wanted to haunt that family myself.

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

“the acting itself is all top-notch”

It sounds somewhat worse than the giant companies I’ve worked for. Staffers weren’t getting any PTO? Or time off to go to the friggin’ doctor?

So, your comment very loudly implies, it was perfectly all right, even admirable.

You’re not alone; I liked the pilot way more than I expected to. FFS, it’s refreshing to see a show in this franchise where everybody’s happy to be there. Rutherford was great for me on two levels: he’s not introduced as having Angst about being a cyborg, and it was great not just seeing his first date play out action…

Same. Sure, the characters were Extra, but it’s a pilot episode. I think it’s fun and was surprised at the Trek action

It’s a popular opinion elsewhere, but Zack Handlen’s signature review style for modern Trek is to give every episode a B and then shit on it endlessly in the review.

Is this an unpopular or popular opinion?  I enjoyed the first episode. 

I still go back & rewatch Animal drum-dueling Dave Grohl.

The 2015 show was way better than this column is giving it credit for. I thought it was actually quite good. Way better than most of the Muppets relaunch attempts over the last 20 years or so (which isn’t saying much but still).

It brought us the Swedish Chef singing “Rapper’s Delight” at karaoke and I will be eternally grateful for that.

I maintain that the 2015 Muppets show deserved better, if only for giving us Fozzie Bear experiencing a micro-aggression.

Standard issue X-Men books really don’t have a central metaphor in the way you’re describing. The point isn’t “The X-Men are a direct stand-in for X real people.” It’s more like “don’t assume people are bad just because they’re different from you.” That idea has potential applications in the real world that some…

Say, for example, there are a string of baffling bank robberies where money is disappearing from locked vaults through which no one has gained entry from the outside. Wouldn’t it be useful to know that there is a mutant living nearby who has the ability to teleport?

I also would 100% support legislation that at the very least registers mutants for similar reasons why I want legislation for gun control.

For some, the dissatisfaction is, as you said, that certain characters didn’t get the ending they hoped to have. For others, in how the show took its time regarding mysteries or plot lines and answering questions. Just my speculation.

I really wish Dark got more love on this site. To me, that was one of the most challenging and rewarding shows to puzzle together. The dubbing is pretty terrible, so do subtitles, but other than that this show is amazing. If Lost was a freshman philosophy course, I feel like this is the graduate degree. 

Completely agree with all of this, and, interestingly, I'd say that growing up with the Arms has been smoother than Alk3, who have lost a lot of their spark in recent years. While Greatest Story and Oh Calcutta are right up there with Good Mourning, Metropole is better than anything Alk3 has put out in years.

Jeez, when did the internet decide that picking on Jim Henson's Dinosaurs was "cool"? The show was actually quite critically acclaimed, nominated for multiple Emmys, and probably had the greatest parody of The Exorcist ever.