Confusing headline... thought that Danielle Fishel had come out at some point, too.

I’m sorry, but how can this be considered a review? This read more like a recap and I don’t see any reasoning for the rating you’ve given for the episode.

My dad leaned over mid movie and staged whispered "IT'S AGENT SMITH"

They cut a lot of stuff (some of which wound up in the Extended Edition) but what impresses me the most is how much they allowed the story to sprawl and breathe. The setup for the rest of the saga doesn’t come into play until about 90 minutes in, with the Council scene. At that point in most movies released in 2001,…

I caught the premiere of Fellowship of the Ring with a bunch of friends at a midnight showing. It’s one of the great moviegoing experiences of my life, but I don’t think the full impact sank in until the last fifteen or twenty minutes or so and I realized, Holy shit, they did it. They really fucking did it.

Honestly I don’t have an issue with Wilde hooking up with her lead, because as you note, that’s been going on for as long as there have been directors and actors.  But don’t try to have it both ways, and say you’re all about a safe environment on set an all that.  She’s trying to have her cake and eat it too, by…

And in the early going, they IMPROVED the books.

It was heavily implied in the original books that the Targaryans were well aware of the white walker threat. The Prince That Was Promised is constantly referenced with Rhaegar being obsessed with either he being the Prince or his son being it. Dany even had a vision of Rhaegar holding his son and using the phrase “a…

Benioff and Weiss were masterful adapters. They literally adapted the unadaptable. And were praised to no end for it.

If there’s any other story I want told out of all the background characters in Ferris Bueller, it’s this guy:

“With a theme by Howard Shore.”

Good lord Mr. Fantastic, THAT was a stretch! Even Stenberg does not go there. You have two women, one who is trying to claim social bullying (in a DM no less) and one who is claiming to be the victim of body shaming, when the comment was directed at the studio (A24) and their body of work in general.

On the last part, it wasn’t even a public leak in that sense. Someone put it on as an Instagram story that had 90-something followers, at least if I understood correctly, where it was picked up later.

I’m not sure I follow the claim that Boomers somehow find political comfort in the works of the Farrelly Brothers.

This is definitely timely, but I wonder if it wouldn’t have been more useful a few years ago.

If they’re trying to reach the anti-choice and on-the-fence people, who (and this is me spouting shit with no evidence) skew whiter and middler-class, then giving them someone to identify with to guide them to sensibleness seems a canny choice. Anything that gets the kids to eat their vegetables is OK by me.

Congrats to Jez for playing their part in the bullying!

One way or another, I think the numbers for the second episode are going to be very different than the numbers for the first, depending on what the reviews by viewers are like.

Amen. Seasons 1 and 2 kept the spaceflight narrative compelling with plausible technical details while tying in the human drama. In Season 3, the writers found a whole bunch of stupid once they landed on Mars.

As always, well done. One of the things that will continue to confound me about this season and finale is that, when it came down to it nothing that Jimmy did was necessary. That band of idiots could have driven their explosive-laden van up to NASA at any time, so why go through the whole rigmarole with Jimmy,…