You were kind. The reviews on this are scathing, so it’s interesting to hear his claim that he apparently did go out and interview 30 former Army medics for this role. That suggests that the majority of the disaster here lies at the feet of the Russo brothers.

About the only unadulterated good thing to come out of the interview so far is that Piers Morgan has one less outlet to bloviate on, since he’s quit Good Morning Britain.

Entry 3 in my ‘Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind’ episode review. Spoilers ahoy on the Severn.

Story-wise, it’s so so cheap

After watching the full episode and seeing what she does immediately preceding this...Tracy deserves every bit of the verbal smackdown.

what life is like as an ancillary character in a Chosen One story

Good summary of why Philip defies both canonization and demonization.

Yeah, one of the major problems with Ed’s decision is that is boils down to either Gordo pulling himself up by his bootstraps and getting back up there - and if he somehow manages to do so, there’s a decent chance it’ll be a disaster - or quitting the program and drinking himself to death. When your best friend…

Entry 2 in my ‘Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind’ reviews - along with brief thoughts on Shadow and Bone. Spoilers ahead.

While there’s good reason to believe the vast majority of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was complete fantasy, I’ve always wondered if the Dating Game drill instructor/network censor had some basis in reality along with the supposedly clean cut 1960s contestants tossing innuendos back and forth before they cracked…

I’m far more excited to learn that there’s apparently a major Zelazny novel that I’m fairly sure that I’ve never read than for the rest of the announcement.

How was the vacation?

Never even knew it existed before this article. The SNES version looks a lot more playable than the PC one.

Thank you for what may be the best researched piece I’ve ever read on AV Club.

I suspect we might be having a reference or two to the changes, but if we use Season 1 as a baseline I doubt we’ll get them explored much beyond that. Someone on reddit paused to catch all of them which I’m linking below since it otherwise breaks posts, along with another site’s review of a few of the changes: looks…

Since AV Club is using a great image from For All Mankind’s Season 2 premiere, Every Little Thing, yet bizarrely still not doing episode by episode reviews, let’s do a short one here since it was my major media consumption yesterday. A few spoilers ahead.

I’ve phrased it before as well in a slightly different way: the sequels made me appreciate far more the risks Lucas took in the prequels.

In one of the few press pieces they’ve done, it came out that one of the most interesting things that apparently got cut for time was the full arc on Nixon being responsible for destroying the Teddy Kennedy administration by leaking the latter’s ongoing affair. Unfortunately, that’s only barely hinted at in the one…

...there’s an efficiency to For All Mankind’s storytelling. What looked like loose threads three episodes ago...

I didn’t do it!