Right, that’s the thing — they’re hype guys who only see things in dollar signs and could give less of a crap about the history or the people. Rich Harrison from ‘Pawn Stars’ is comparatively similar but you at least get the impression he has a baseline of knowledge about the items that come into his shop, or at least…

I never cared for either of these guys or their show. They both come off as arrogant vultures and it’s not surprising they’re both sniping at each other.

I dunno, man. Richard Jenkins hasn’t been cancelled — maybe they could have cast him instead!

Broadchurch S1 never did anything for me. It was a dozen episodes of Chibnall throwing red herrings who could be the murderer and then settling on a suspect in the finale. I never got the impression he knew how to dramatize how the murder of a child would affect a small town, beyond that first episode. Actually, a lot…

It’s very concerning, in fact. Chibnall isn’t exactly known for being able to polish scripts as the showrunner, let alone come up with concise stories on his own, so I shudder at the thought of him keeping eight episodes from not falling apart. My problem with him as the EP is he’s always doubles down on his…

On one hand, it makes sense that they kept Yaz in the cast because the one with the least shading of characterization and the potential to fill her in more — but on the other, she’s always been a blank slate who exists to respond to others, which is not the best basis for keeping someone around.

I sense that the demo for this show is the ironic crowd, who know Turner and Hooch exclusively through Scrubs, but haven’t seen the movie. Which might include the execs who greenlit this thing...

I watched it last year and it’s everything you would expect: Smith idolizing times 30 years ago (which weren’t all that great in the first place), everyone looking waaaayyyy too old to play slackers (especially Jason Mewes), meta humor only a hardcore subset will get but will alienate the rest.

Right, what is the point of this post? Tarantino’s criticism boils down to corporatism has devalued the experience of sitting a packing theatre with strangers to watch a film and Sam is taking issue, with his usual smug superiority.

Rockford Files has a lot of beautiful verbose episode titles throughout its six season run. Here’s a few more to sun for the afternoon in — careful don’t get sunburned: “Chicken Little is a Little Chicken,” “The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit,” “Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You,” “A…

Trying to provoke you. Did a solid job.

I was just gonna comment on this: Beth Davenport is in something like 30 episodes of Rockford, and is the love interest for a fair amount of them, but Ihnat pretended like she doesn’t exist?

Cuaron is an exceptional filmmaker but Gravity is an empty bombastic film with the bare framework of one of his films.

I always felt Tench storyline with Brian in S2 was meant to mirror the discord building on the Atlanta case. Holden and Tench are dealing with a hostile community and bureaucracy who won’t listen to reason or the science to catch a child murderer. And then Tench returns home to try to breakthrough to his son, who comes…

Sadly Lucas Til will not have a chance to recreate Richard Dean Anderson’s mullet he displayed in later seasons...

The most anyone has ever cared for Krendler was when his literal brains were feasted upon at the end of Hannibal. It’s totally bizarre trying to reconcile the monstrous version with that character with one portrayed here. 

Kino Lorber Studio Classics put it out on Blu-Ray, if anyone is curious. It’s a bare bones release but the transfer looks great.

I am absolutely done with franchises pulling the Magical Jesus characterizations out of their asses. It’s a crappy narrative substitute to pad their thin writing behind a vague mysticism. The mere existence of this storyline is proof that Chibnall perhaps doesn’t know the appeal of the very show he’s writing.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they go the digitally de-aging route because by the time Harrison Ford goes to camera he’s gonna be pushing 80 years old which places Indy V in the late 60s, which is gonna be incredibly awkward.   

...and if he’s dunking on some random asshole on Twitter hours before SNL goes live, is that really a good look for him?