Beacon 23 feels like it keeps cornering itself into places its writing cannot seem to nail

And in a role that almost nobody remembers...

Who was being incredibly difficult to contact and when he DID get in touch

I remember browsing through one of the tabloids were they quoted an anonymous ‘insider’. They said that when what was really going on came out, the people who were going on about her disappearance were going to feel terrible about doing so.

Eh.

I’ve been interested in seeing what they’re going to try to do with Manhunt, but I definitely needed a day to go from Anthony Boyle playing good guy Harry Crosby to evil incarnate John Wilkes Booth.

Nevertheless, the focus here should be on Evans

I am genuinely curious why anyone would choose to become a Subway franchisee nowadays given the long and very visible history of corporate trying to just screw them over.

but a Hooters bit just feels too painfully obvious in the year of our lord 2024.

Sadly Pugh fares worst out of this quartet since her part is small and the character ends up being just a forgettable plot convenience.

As I’ve written before, it just really feels like this was pitched as a 2 hour movie with heavy supernatural elements that HBO decided to expand and graft onto an existing franchise, with not so good results.

Pizzolatto is a pretty arrogant guy who thinks he’s a genius - not uncommon in Hollywood - who uncommonly doesn’t try to filter this at all, which I suspect is one contributing factor why most critics were really rooting for Lopez to succeed since they grew tired of his act a long, long time ago. Being a jerk over…

I suspect you may have missed that after what some felt was unjustified criticism of the first couple episodes, someone set up an entirely new subreddit, TDNightCountry, that made it a point to moderate the dogwhistling and was generally filled with positive comments about the show. It apparently became the the…

Well, I liked it better than E3-5, although that’s not saying much.

Huh?

This was perhaps the most frustrating episode of a frustrating show.

I only came across Fourth Wing in the last month - it showed up on a list of suggested ebooks when I’d checked something else out from the library - and after seeing 150k Amazon reviews I thought I should grab it just to see what the hype was about.

I could have made that clearer for folks who aren’t aware of how the Coast Guard operates (which is just about everyone reading the comment) but here’s the long form version of it that I didn’t want to write up.

I’m curious how they’re going to portray Stanton in Manhunt; by most accounts, he went off the deep end during it and the trial, even if not quite to the level portrayed in The Conspirator. Even Grant grew tired of him.

I’m not sure how this rates an A- when you conclude with this: