On a directly related subject, the single most useful piece of cookware I’ve gotten in the last few years has oddly enough been a 3/4 quart butter warmer that’s induction compatible.

Yikes. Since links still don’t work, Tasha Robinson:

Oh, he doesn’t, at least not any more than he ever realizes he’s a good chunk of the way towards the Frederick Forrest character too.

Even when discussing this with friends right after release, I’ve never really understood how some considered D-FENS even an anti-hero. Sympathetic at times, absolutely, but the movie tells you outright that his whole walk across LA was to murder his ex-wife and daughter. That tends to put a damper on a character’s…

I’ve only watched the monologue, largely because I was clicking around on Youtube and the livestream of it popped up in my suggestions.

Was Landsman as darkly funny as reported?  That must have been an amazing riff between the two.

I don’t use my Tivo HD much nowadays having cut the cord a while back, but one thing permanently saved from it are the three L&O crossover episodes from Homicide since TNT somehow got a hold of the raw open matte version and used it for them.

Belzer’s description of the real life Munch, Jay Landsman, from the 2010 AVClub interview (wish links weren’t broken!) is worth a read, since it was why he ended up getting cast despite concerns about his acting.

My favorite story about Fried is that he was startled when he began getting residuals from The Simpsons for Amok Time; “I never wrote anything for them!”

Mixed feelings about the episode.

I got the feeling from the review that the writing during the first half of the season is just as bad as S1 and S2, but that something happened in the middle of the season - I’d bet either the full return of the TNG cast or a series of TNG-like episodes in how they interact - that got them interested again, and so…

That’s not even the best part of I Love Lisa.

Future FNL TV cast member Connie Britton also stars.

You’re not nitpicking as much you’re on to something, which is that the show has been asking viewers - especially those who haven’t played the game and thus aren’t entranced by knowing where the main plot is going so they can more easily ignore this - to suspend disbelief for things that if they were written more…

To me, Lynskey’s role is the first poorly done tell rather than show that we’ve had for the series.

My rationalization for about 5 seconds was that they were walking down Route 2, which would have been a leap of faith as somehow in 20 years it got completely overgrown except for one miraculously clear lane down the middle. Not knowing where Bill and Frank were supposed to be in the game, I was also thinking that…

That’s not weird at all, but I think it shows up in the mid level streamers more than the big ones.

While it was overwhelmed by the Bill and Frank arc, they did a nice job of having Ellie-as-teen show up in ways bad (the trip to the Cumberland basement and pushing Joel’s patience) but also relatable (the excited comments of someone who has never seen an airplane, the video game, and the seatbelt.)

I haven’t lost interest, but I wasn’t enthused with this episode; unlike the pilot, this felt so much like a video game that you were half expecting to have button options pop up periodically. (Given it was helmed by Neil Druckmann who cowrote and directed the game, that probably shouldn’t have been a surprise.)

To me, the weirdest part of the Boston adaptation is the juxtaposition of somewhat exacting details with Hollywood geography.