Don't worry, folks. There's a good chance Barsanti's take on this is just as wrong as his take on, well, everything.

This. The moral of Broadchurch is that if you have Olivia fucking Colman plus David Tennant in not-phoning-it-in mode plus Jodie Whitaker, David Bradley, Arthur Darvill, and a bunch of other ringers on the cast, you can get away with damn near anything.

The thing is...Lindelof really redeemed himself with The Leftovers, that actually included mystery boxes zapping people somewhere...they said “don’t worry about where it is going, the story is about the characters” and after they nailed that they were like “btw here’s what happened”

Isn’t this not new but old? Back before NuWho, didn’t they do these serialized adventures?

The sequel shall be entitled One Night in Bangkok, it shall.

It’s fine? Jessica and Leto are played by appropriately aged actors and it’s very normal to cast a person in their 20s to play a teen. I don’t understand why this is even an article, are you guys running out of things to talk about? 

Stan Against Evil ftw!

like you say, it’s not meant to make people think it’s a newly discovered old film, it’s an aesthetic designed to elicit feeling (that you resent, apparently)

The original Bebop actually did use weird media-mixing from older genres, largely in its commercial-break eyecatches, so this is one of the few times it actually does fit the source.

This was annoying to me, because we’re seven episodes in and it felt like it spoiled the end for me, but also it wasn’t really funny beyond “hey we’re referencing a thing”

The real squid game was the friends we made along the way.

I’m about halfway through the show and I think it spoiled the ending for me. 

I think Myles mentioned in a comment elsewhere that he thinks season two really helped easily sort out what people liked about season 1 of Ted Lasso, and that viewers generally fell into two camps: People who appreciated the tight plotting and well-constructed storytelling of S1, and people who appreciated the…

But he played a lovely person named Rupert, aka Giles,  on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Essentially, the only way Nate’s story really works for me is if it forces self-reflection from Ted, Beard, and the rest of the coaching staff about their responsibility for Nate’s heel turn.

Not holding my breath but I would love to see a live action Captain Carter movie (or at least a live action canon where she exists).

I wasn’t convinced of the fake billionaire thing, until I remembered the throwaway lines about hiring actors for the museum and the restaurant. Everything Akufo said was about what he was going to do, not what he has done. Typical language from a con man, or recently replaced politician.

The narrative says they’ve had a supernaturally good winning streak. You’re assuming that’s on one dude, who is a self-obsessed ticking time bomb BTW, out of four - but we don’t see who it’s on because the focus hasn’t been on the games, it’s been on the things you clearly think are irrelevant or boring or whatever.…

The plan makes no sense, but one of the quirks of the Ted Lasso world is that we have no idea how much or how little sense it should make. It’s weird for Sam not to have an agent handling this sort of thing, and it’s weird for the show not to mention Sam’s relationship with the Nigerian national team/youth system,…

The only episodes I’ve really liked this season are the Christmas episode and last week’s. I’m predisposed to like Christmas togetherness / found family type stuff, and last week’s had some good emotional content.