I skipped the review for now since I’m going to watch this tonight, but even without reading it I just wanted to stop in to say...holy crap.

The Geeked Week interview by Felicia Day goes into far more depth about the choices they made, and it’s a fascinating watch.

Waterston returning is fine even if he’s not what he was 25 years ago (who is), but jettisoning the rest of the cast and showrunner probably wouldn’t be a bad idea. Only four more to go after Anderson.

A couple of days ago I plugged in Top Gun: Maverick on IMDB (to look up Barbaro’s credits, actually) and discovered it’s now ranked the #49 movie of all time.

But how else, we ask, was Gen Z supposed to discover the magic of Kate Bush?

I’ll wish her luck; Katniss’ mental breakdowns made the third book a pretty interesting read even if much of the plot repeated and turning it into a 5 hour slogfest was one of the nastier money grabs of peak YA dystopia.  The prequel, though, is just lousy material and even though it’s written for the screen, it’s…

Amen. It started slowly but when you get to the end of Episode 7 you realize just what a really clever bit of writing they pulled off for not just the season but for the world they’ve built for the previous three seasons.

I thought it started slowly as well, but stick with it.

After Goodfellas, weirdly enough the appearance that I remember him the most for is the deservedly panned No Escape. He didn’t have much to work with plotwise in that one but made the most of what he did.

I had totally forgotten about the “I’m an entertainer and I don’t want to go into it” before he realizes who he’s talking with. The clip is still out there.

after a three-freaking-year wait

Davidson and Mooney will have relatively little impact, but McKinnon and Bryant have been at the core of the show for a long, long time and their absence is going to be felt.

Perhaps AVClub could finally cover the series episode-by-episode as many of us have requested over and over; gushing about it in your ‘best of’ lists while writing two articles per year on it is a bit incongruous.

Once her mom wasn’t there anymore full time when she hit her teen years, the brutal crap she took from social media trolls triggered depression severe enough so that she would rarely leave the house and often didn’t get out of bed. That was the background for the linked ‘such good friends with Maisie Williams’…

The one thing that I take from the multiple glowing reviews is that it’s pretty much guaranteed to not be awful, which is really all I ask from it.

Surprised no one has mentioned the Not-A-Perfect-Person-but-a-Perfect-Mom sketch. Easily the best of the night; the intergenerational hypocrisy was outrageously funny, even to McKinnon’s grandma screaming at David Bowie to take her panties. ‘You blew my roommate/I thought it was you!” was definitely the spit out your…

Gwen, you’ve been one of my favorite writers across all the sites for a while.  Maybe it’s being a fellow old in watching shows that don’t have splosions and shallow characters, or maybe it’s that you put an awful lot of work in to whatever you do.

I’ve found that trying to do anything but provide very basic requests of - not instructions to - a process server tends to result in a rather pissed off one. They have their realm, know the law of it vastly better than 99% of the attorneys they work for, and do not appreciate any perceived ‘interference’.

I’d wondered why Bosch’s half brother Mickey Haller - aka the Lincoln Lawyer - never made an appearance in the early years of Bosch. We found out a couple years ago: Connelly was smart and sold the rights for those books to a competitor. Must have made for interesting times when he dealt with Amazon suits on what was…

As I’ve written before, the sad part about this is that The Crown really is at its most effective when it stays close to what actually happened, and if they’d stuck with that the show would be more interesting to watch as well as probably be allowed to shoot without interference.