Yeah, they did it at the start of the season, when Barry was eating a donut while his employer was torturing Jeff.

Anyone else notice how Natalie’s show shamelessly panders to BanShe’s algorithm? The BanShe rep said that people were more likely to watch the whole show if the season starts with someone eating a dessert and if it incorporates Central Park.

I found a poster for this movie online where the tagline for the movie was “The dead will have this club for breakfast” while the main character(?) is shown holding a baseball bat, so I guess that’s where we’re at in terms of writing.

“For instance, if you were to see someone eating dessert within the first two minutes of the episode, they almost always finish the season.”

Nah, anyone who might boo Chappelle just gives him more of an opportunity to be an asshole. He literally had a bit on a recent special about someone in the audience calling him out.

Sure, if there’s one thing Tim Heidecker’s known for, it’s constantly worrying about people liking what he says or does.

It just says "You have picked up the bomb" over and over again

It was Korean when Barry first picked it up. It switched to Japanese when he bumped it while moving it into the house's crawl space.

The self-awareness comes from the show being gone for four years, along with the weight of the expectations that the viewer have on the new season. The writers had a choice: either churn out more of the same, where people would just complain about “another episode with no plot advancement” or they could have fun with…

I don’t understand. Both seasons of Atlanta never led to any narrative payoffs. Atlanta has almost always been an anthology-type, “each episode is self-contained” type with minor advancements in the plot either happening in the background or off-screen. How is this season any different for you?

Exactly. The first thought that popped up in my head when I heard he apologized was "How many roles did he get turned down for before he realized, 'Hey, maybe I should apologize'?"

True. I can already imagine how good the ending could be in an actual show.

I think there’s a difference between making jokes about a movie and humorlessly disparaging the message a movie’s trying to make.

I don't understand why people are assuming that the alternate ending would be better to set up a sequel. Wouldn't Smith's realization that the new zombies were also like humans mean that they wouldn't be the bad guys in the second film? What would be the point of a sequel then?

Bad Luck and Trouble is such a great choice for a possible second season. I can already imagine the first episode’s cold open based on the novel’s opening.

I absolutely love how Scream always tried to say something about the current state of society in regards to entertainment, no matter how heavy-handed or barebones the message could be. It could’ve easily turned into a Friday the 13th-esque franchise that focused on making the next one quickly and cheaply for money,…

The fact that I only first heard about this show actually coming out in the article talking about its cancellation speaks volumes.

I never understood the point of that scene. I get it, Margot Robbie is hot and she's in a bathtub so that'll get most of the male audience going, but why would they add a (presumably naked) woman in a bathtub to explain a complicated concept? Wouldn't that just distract people and make it a lot harder to focus on?

You should check out the leaked changes to the story that they're making, just in case you wanted to ruin your day a little more.

The main premise sounds kind of like a more serious iZombie.