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Oh God. Have we reached the next milestone in our pop culture evolution where all the 90s kids show get a dark, twisted Riverdale-esqe remixes?

Oh boy, oh boy! There’s so many of us!

There are three seasons of Hannibal that would disagree with you...

The didactic antics of this show never interested or fooled me, but I hope they kill off Spacey’s character via him choking on a pretzel. Thematically, it seems fitting to have Underwood karmically killed off by the Almighty contriving the most embarrassing way to die.

That’s a thing that CBS does in their upfront promos for all their new shows. It’s inexplicable and totally bizarre.

Every piece of promotional material I’ve seen about the seen about the revival thus far seems to indicate that’s the direction they’re going. The original MB started running out of steam when they devoted a whole show to mocking how Dan Quayle couldn’t spell potato, so it’s gonna be low hanging fruit which they’ll

Moral outrage over something not being jingoistic enough defines modern day conservatism today. 

The same occurred to me, although Nacho arguably has less agency than Jesse ever did, excluding being held captive by Neo-Nazis. Nacho is Gus’s captive as a cog in a very large piece of machinery that threatens to crush him. Whereas Jesse, as Walt’s partner, had enough leverage to get out at almost any point. 

I did too, but I think that’s more the production team on Mindhunter playing with the iconography of all those exploitative video-nasties of the late 70s than setting up an actual serial killer living downstairs from Wendy.

I think they’re set in present day or only a few years into the future. Jimmy doesn’t have any greying hair, only a receding hairline.

A part of me thinks Kim is gonna remove herself voluntarily from Jimmy’s life, whether that means leaving Albuquerque, taking a partnership somewhere, or she expands her legal business on her own. She’s a intellect that doesn’t cut corners, unlike Jimmy, to succeed and when her profile expands, the gap in perspectives

CBS Executive: Fellas, this Discovery show isn’t working. You know what we should do? Keep this Kurtzman fella and give him another Star Trek property!  

Not so much fixated that Nashville took a full tilt into soap opera lunacy as the realization that, “Holy shit, Nashville was once important enough that T Bone Burnett was its composer...”

This was strategic. You can’t pair The Meg with the original Jaws because it’ll look embarrassing by comparison. However, any popcorn movie, no matter how shitty, will look amazing next to Jaws 3D

It’s too bad Tom Cruise didn’t throw Corden out without a parachute. He’d gain some crossover appeal if he did that...

We’re in our own little club — <i>I love it.</i> Corden is basically the Jay Leno of the UK, although I think even Leno had some credibility back then...

Everything I loved about Bourdain, the towering, influential figure of my imagination, is encapsulated in that envisioned death scenario for Weinstein. That odd, poignant irony. It’s all there. I just about shed a tear thinking that came from his brain.

Is anyone gonna talk about the fact that the Dodgeball guy directed this movie...

The ending made it clear, at least to me, why she’s not in the sequel: when Benicia del Toro tells her at the end she’s needs to be a wolf to survive in a lawless land, which she’ll never be, it’s very much a validation of all the characterization of her up until that point. If she came back, her character simply

I thought Wind River was great. I’d love to know Erik’s thoughts on Taylor Sheridan’s filmography, which might be the best way to frame his views on Yellowstone, even if this does sound awfully heavy-handed.