Internet, for this year's performance review, I'd like you to tell me why you feel you've been doing a great job. Just write it up and we can go over it together next week, OK?

With Clark Gregg as Father Mapple.

I should hope they weren't the same upturned cardboard box.

I heard there's a post-credits scene introducing The Rock as Queequay.

I love the short stories, too. My current favorites are The Air Disaster and The Dead Astronaut.

I see Chandler as very much a Romantic, while Hammett's world is so far removed that it's almost legendary. MacDonald, on the other hand, seems to write about a world that's no further away than a grandparent's attic. I'm really looking forward to trying again with your recommendations.

I'm an old, and do almost all of my reading from physical books, but I'm also one of those people who loves to find stuff I'd forgotten about in used book stores and thrift stores (I found JG Ballard's Empire of the Sun at a Habitat for Humanity shop for $0.50!), so take my preferences with a grain of salt.

I will always love my Chandler, but I'm going to track down a copy of The Chill this weekend on your and Miller's recommendation. Thank you both!

I really do want to try again with Macdonald. He looms so large in both the hard-boiled and the LA-centric canons, and is so respected by people I respect, that I feel that I'm just not approaching him the right way.

I must have started Under the Volcano six or seven times before I got traction one day and just got into it. It really is a heck of a book. Keep going back to it.

Have you read The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West? Since it was published in the same year (1939), and is set in Los Angeles also, I think of it as part of an unofficial LA Trilogy with The Big Sleep and Ask the Dust.

As a huge Raymond Chandler fan, and someone with a deep interest in the history of Los Angeles and the way it's been portrayed in various media (Los Angeles Plays Itself is one of my favorite movies), I finally got around to reading The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald. It has been claimed that Macdonald perfected what…

I have to imagine that after her experience with the Star Wars films, she's a bit more aware of the trade-offs of being connected to not entirely well received fantasy franchises.

This went from not a great idea to an actually bad idea. The more I learn about this project, the more apprehensive I get.

Can we put him in a box of hamdingers and shoot him into space?

I'd rather look like Dikachu.

Me too.

I was surprised by how many robots appeared in Show Me a Hero.

It still hasn't reached the level that It Follows got.

I suspect that they might prefer remaining simply two pieces of bread to the alternative you propose.