Yeah, it’s...fine. There’s a British department store which does a yearly commercial that usually leaves me a whimpering mess; this was just nice and cute. And I can tell you, as someone whose parents have achieved worse lows than being publicly embarrassing, this doesn’t make me go “I should call them.”

I got a Boygenius notification for this??

They nailed his shoes to the floor :(

Mustn’t one have expectations in order to be disappointed?

The first movie was a global box-office powerhouse; I wouldn’t sell this one short just because American audiences are overly invested in the studio drama behind its production.

I think it says something about the power of cinema that I never worried myself with such a question.

A dud, eh?

You’re placing all of that onto “I’m tired,” not him. Just let him be a  sleepy guy.

If people don’t know it’s a musical, then it being a musical isn’t the reason they’re staying away.

Agreed! I rewatched it early this year and was surprised just how much it was cooking in the back half of the third season through the end of the fifth, as well as just how bad season 6 was from the jump.

I mean, they do it all the time, particularly in the last 30-40 years or so. To name a few: Superman, Cape Fear, Thomas Crown Affair, Parent Trap, Maverick, Avengers, My Favorite Martian, The Brady Bunch, McHale’s Navy, The Twilight Zone Movie, The Flintstones, Get Carter etc etc; and that’s not even getting into this …

Where’s Poochie?

I envy you for having not yet encountered the Oppenheimer backlash

Granted I hate fan theories (they’re always literal and rely on pattern recognition), but I wouldn’t dunk on them with such an ungenerous misinterpretation as Barsanti has.

There are plenty of problems with the Lost finale (though my hot take is that it’s the entire season which blows, not just the final hour), and it’s way frustrating that people slam it for something it didn’t even do.

The most prominent example (is it the best? I dunno) I can think of is Wizard of Oz, and I think that works because the story takes place in a fantasy world. She’s very suddenly thrust into a new environment and once she leaves, she awakens right where she started; it leaves us on a note of ambiguity which only…

I feel like the double-edged sword of franchises like Marvel itself is fans crave cohesion and would prefer a clumsy, wiki-friendly pivot to suspending their disbelief.

Phases 4 and 5 will hereon in be referred to as the “gas leak phases”

At the end of the episode Oliver lists some stories they meant to cover and gave me the ultimate validation: car headlights have indeed gotten brighter and are pointed pretty directly in other drivers’ eyes. It just seems so insane the auto industry lets this happen, I’ve assumed I’m just a crank. Guess both things…

He said, with no self awareness