From what I’ve read of Groves, Brian Dennehy is an inspired choice.

Oh! I forgot about Day One. Good choice there. I saw it on TV when it first aired. Definitely worth re-watching. I haven’t seen Hiroshima. Sounds good.

I agree. I did like the Pam and Ellen conversation. Just feels like that should have been earlier on in the season. Just feel like they forget about some story lines and tack them in spots where action isn’t heavy to get the story out even if it doesn’t represent the entire arc of the episode.

There was a TV miniseries in the early ‘80s with Sam Waterston as Oppenheimer. I remember it being pretty good.

I would invite you to listen to The Dollop 4 part episode about Aaron Burr and host Dave Anthony's many angry, but pretty spot-on, criticisms of Lin-Manuel Miranda's decision to rely solely on one source of research for his musical about the kind of awful shitbird Alexander Hamilton.

De Armas is proving to be an excellent actress and captures Monroe’s look just fine (not least because they are both natural brunettes), and I’m pretty much always in the camp of capturing the essence of a real-life character rather than nailing an impersonation.  Heck, she looks more like Marilyn Monroe than Norma…

Anyone else beside me never connect Drew from Deliverance as the same actor who played Jones in Robocop? I’m so used to seeing Ronnie Cox play sneering assholes in a suit and tie that I completely missed that he was the most gentle, low-key member of the group in Deliverance.

In my experience with a close family member, hospice is the opposite of that. It’s about making a person as comfortable as possible while they are dying, rather than providing treatment to address the underlying condition. It’s just pain management and removing the caregiving burden from the loved ones’ shoulders so…

50% better and twice the price!

Actually skipping the Irishman is understandable

He lived in the apartment directly above my good friend’s in West Hollywood. 19 years ago, when he was having a particularly raucous party, Paul came down to complain... and wound up staying an hour, and got pretty loaded.

I’ll start this by saying that anyone is free to feel insulted by whatever they feel insulted by. But I - an Asian-American living in a third world country - really think this criticism is stretching a bit.

At a guess, they realized over the years trying to make the thing cheaper and cheaper to make have resulted in a thing that really isn’t very good.  So they’ll take it away for a years then come back with a “premium priced” choco taco that is better than the one you could buy last month, but not near as good as the…

I agree with the classic cyberpunk tropes and orientalism especially with the hats (“Get it? These are Asian robots...”), but I’m not so sure the developers had an obligation to explain the history. Sounds like the choice for the location was very much inspired from the perspective of a cat. It’s also a fictional…

Well she sounds pretty full of herself.

I love her modesty. Really down to earth.

You don’t want to change up your wording even a little?

Welcome to Pop Culture in the Year 2022, where shipping and fan fiction of officially overrules the intentions of the original creators of a work because a group of random people on the internet or a podcast say so.

“(For the record, screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith have denied writing such an ending.)“

After reading the headline and being familiar with your work, I’m surprised only 3 of these are some form of MSG.