My bet is the fact that Covid-19 has basically killed a lot of original content from being made for any platform.  HBO Max is scrambling to have something on the slate for 2021 and post production can all be done from people working at home

I’m terribly sorry to all those I’ve offended with this simple and seemingly innocuous inquiry. I’ll keep you all in mind the next time I even think about posting something the hive mind of the internet doesn’t approve of in advance. Perhaps a ‘Man, that sucks’ or yet another tired reference to Marc and HIS GUYS…

It depends on the audiobook. Some are just reads (Gaiman is a fantastic reader and any books he narrates are worth picking up), while others are full-fledged audioplays.

It seems like the more British a book is, the more likely it’ll get the audioplay treatment, since radio plays never stopped being a thing over there.

Audible is like netflix for audio books. So, with different people/teams producing the content, there are different productions standards for each book. That said, most are straightforward audio books. If you’re interested in this project specifically, though...the last paragraph’s use of “audio drama” instead of…

Yeah, but it’s tough to blame anyone for that.

Hard agree. If they had let it play out for a season or so then had everyone realize they were collectively being assholes, that would have been one thing, but they really committed to it for the duration.  Honestly, I found the show really uneven--there were parts that were great, but it didn’t warm my heart the way…

I liked that Donna (pretty happily) called up Garry though.  She was always the sweetest to him.  I still cry when I think about his nameplate at her wedding.

As an episode of Parks & Rec, it’s probably not even in the top half and ranks down there with an average S2 episode.

I enjoyed this a fair amount but goddamn am I fed up with the Gary / Jerry bashing. it was always a really ugly and unpleasant element in the series and that they went to that well so many times in this episode really frustrated. And I know the joke is that he has a wonderful life and doesn’t care about the way they…

Omg yes to everything you just said. Bonus points for the shout out to Robot & Frank!

Her?

“I’ll take ‘Bad Takes’ for 1,000, Alex.”

Lemme guess Karen, you saw someone at the store who failed to socially distance...

Did anybody actually do that? Because I don’t think anybody gave a shit in that way. 

Despite being hilariously white for a film set in an area of London famously associated with Afro Caribbeans (only Peckham or Brixton would have been more glaring), I love this film.

I don’t think Hiddleston is, or ever was, a Big Movie Star.  Aside from Kong: Skull Island his cinematic choices have been interesting or theatrical (I presumed that’s why Branagh cast him as Loki in the first place...), and he’s just done a stint in Pinter’s Betrayal on Broadway.  He’s a thesp, not a movie star.

Not so sure, Batman has to be a little more unrecognizable from the nose down.

I don’t think anyone is going to read it that way. There’s literally no reason McHale would give a quote about that, speaking for someone else mentioned in the same sentence, and that’s a common way to lead into a quote anyway.

Fox hole or Bust! and bust?

But there will also be downsides.