IIRC from the trade rags at the time, the story was that Waterston’s ‘elevation’ was a planned cost saving strategy - it was even hinted at during the end of Season 17 - since moving him to a supporting role meant his salary was a lot more tenable for a show with ratings nowhere close to its glory days.

Staff are also required to confirm all projectors and sound systems are turned off at night, to save on power bills and bulb life.

So combining the Google translate versions of the O Globo article with my very limited SpanPortuguese :

What this article doesn’t address is why the leading man in romcoms has changed, and I’d suggest that it’s because Hollywood has caught on to audience expectations.

I’ve not watched this yet but, yeah, if they don’t take on the reporters here for not doing their jobs as well it’s a whitewash.

This part buried at the end is the most important since the headline and the rest of the body gives a different impression:

I’d argue what’s more dissettling about the writing is its peaks and valleys, which are some of the more significant in recent memory.

Weakest of the episodes so far.

Whelp, after the first two episodes, it’s...ok.

There’s a substantial amount of people on places like r/Thinkpad who buy older laptops for very little, spend a small amount of money on upgrades, and have quite capable machines for a few hundred dollars. They won’t play recent AAA games, but they’re good for all sorts of other things.

For BoB, the reason why it works and the Pacific doesn’t kind of goes back to the origin story.

Plus, games are social now in a way that reading is not, even if you’re playing single player - since you can stream it and interact. I spend more time watching Twitch in the background than TV, and I’m far from an introvert.

Oh, I was referring more to back then, when the Sads fairly quickly turned into what was effectively a slate recommendation that was actually well within the rules (which largely got missed in the handwringing and moral outrage) where the Rabids were indeed mostly just there to troll and disrupt.

What a mess just by itself.

A friend who is a network series writer has told me that for traditional TV writing - as opposed to movies - the general rule is that you make sure every major plot point is mentioned twice at different times precisely because of what you’re mentioning: you expect your viewer more than likely to be distracted during…

I’ve not been paying more than very tangential attention to the internal politics of the Hugos since I stopped buying supporting membership a few years before the Sad/Rabid Puppies era (and by the way, it’s still a bit sloppy to not distinguish between the two.) Back then, it wasn’t too hard to see the storm on the…

Thanks - I’ve only seen Earth Girls, Freejack, and Melancholia off this list, so some nominees for the next I Have No Idea What To Watch night.

Had forgotten about that. As I’ve said, the show is dense.

Interesting catch, but it’s hard to tell if that’s the case.

The right question scene was the best of the show so far; among other things, it shows why Danvers is not just a small town police chief but was exiled for whatever reason.