Never saw the remake and I haven’t watched the original for quite possibly a couple of decades so this is very hazy, but what I remember is:

First boot on Mars that is.  Whoops!

Entry 10 of my “Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind” series, along with a brief review of the season.

I can see where if you felt the interpersonal stuff was more solid than I did that a lot of the season would have been more palatable. That said, I do think given the very visceral reaction by Reddit to Danny and Karen that most weren’t really able to overcome it. I suspect that Ed may have a moment where things are…

Episode 9 in my “Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind” series.

Agreed; my thoughts immediately went to their kids.

Entry 8 in my “Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind” reviews.

I think it’s Moore that mentioned that was all Eddie Olmos ad libbing the scene.

Entry 7 in my “Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind” series.

My problem with the way they’re continuing the Shane story is both a showrunning and a practical one. This was a ripe area to explore for the Baldwins this season, but it’s starting to look like they’ve screwed it up.

Entry 6 in my “Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind” series. Best Laid Plans presents an unwelcome return to one of the most annoying tendencies of Season 1: having half of a genuinely good episode interlaced with a rather lousy one. A- for the Russians coming to dinner and C- for the other plot lines…

Entry 5 in my “Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind” reviews. Overall I was moderately disappointed with The Weight; C+ or so.

I always thought there was something supernatural about Pug Henry.

Kotto has mentioned that Simon’s original plan for Gee wasn’t particularly inspiring: the passive supervisor straight out of the cookie cutter cop drama, where once in a while they get to scream at the main actors. It was Kotto that pushed him into reformulating Gee as a mentor and politician, which really was the…

Homicide may be my all time favorite cop drama; I view it in many ways as superior to the later Wire.  Definitely give it a go.

Don’t remember where I saw it, but the post or tweet which pointed out that a modern Wonder Years would be set 2001 was slightly surreal.

That thread by the pilot who did the 100 hours in the T-38 is amusing; as they note, you could indeed do the dogfight...just not in that aircraft, and the errors just multiply from there. Gordo had best be circling overhead until his fuel goes bingo and SAR comes to fish Ed out of the drink, but the whole sequence is…

And since it’s too late to edit, speaking of SG-1, Youtube just spit out a death notice I was unaware of: Cliff Simon aka Ba’al, dead at 59 after a kiteboard accident.  Easy the most fun villain on the series.  RIP.

Entry 4 in my ‘Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind’ episode reviews.

While she may talk about the little things, my own experience is that there’s a much deeper layer, which is that Americans tend to think they know British culture from watching The Crown/Downton Abbey/Harry Potter - or if they dive a little deeper, stuff like Attack the Block or Small Axe - when in reality they don’t…