Book three is a really great season and finale. This list could have been made up entirely of episodes from that season. The sequel series is a mixed bag, but worth seeing. The final two seasons really rival the original show, but the couple of times I’ve rewatched the series I’ve skipped season 2 entirely.

I feel in Europe its always been appreciated more than in the US.

How anyone can rock up to a cinema not having decided what they’re seeing yet is beyond me. My only experience even close to that in the last decade is heading to the local arthouse last year with my mother, realising too late that we had our days mixed up for the showings and getting stuck watching the extremely…

Thanks! I'm glad I can go in from that perspective 

whoah i had no idea, and even less that he worked on a mod for oblivion himself.

That’s a shame but cheers, I’ll probs give it a go because I like the leads and haven’t exactly got much else going on, and tbh knowing the twist makes me think its more of the kind of thing id like than the base premise of two bereaved people bonding over shared trauma.

Somehow this show passed me by until this second season, I would check it out cause it sounds kinda fun, but I really hope the twist about Cardellini’s character isn’t something the series hinged on, cause the ‘Applegate’s husband died in a hit and run, and Cardellini’s character has a dark secret’ didn’t exactly take…

Popstar really didn’t click for me, but considering I’m in this thread going to bat for Walk Hard, which I also had to watch a few times to really appreciate I’m thinking it might be worth a re-evaluation. I’ve seen quite a few people say it’s criminally underrated, and I’m a real fucking mark for musical comedy. 

No I totally agree, we were saturated with Apatow branded comedies back then. I saw it first on DVD maybe a year after it came out, and it didn’t really click for me the first time. Probably only returned to it because it was before convenient streaming and I had a limited DVD collection. Eventually it became a firm…

God I nearly forgot about Phasma, she’s basically all the wasted potential of the sequels distilled into one character. What a shame.

Walk Hard is the most underrated comedy of the past couple of decades. It’s a such a masterful parody and labour of love. It’s a crime how little impact it made on release. It does make sense though, I’d compare it to Arrested Development, it really shines on repeated viewings cause it’s so packed with details and…

nice!

It really both makes a lot more sense, and would be better if he plays Rex. I think he’s the clear fan favourite these days out of the two of them. I’m of the opinion Boba should stay dead in the new canon. 

The reasoning seems to be that the empire did a genocide on mandalore, and the cell mando lives with is one of the few remnants of their society. As they’re still in hiding and trying to hold onto their culture they end up leaning into it a lot harder than previous generations.

There's just one problem, Christopher Lee was a great actor, but I’m not sure I’d ever buy him as a ‘good guy’. 

This has been on my mind quite a bit recently, as a group of friends and I have all decided to start streaming some of our signature games one by one as a kind of weekly group call/watch party. It was my turn today and I ended up playing Jedi Academy, but only because I couldn’t get Battlefront 2 (the original one)…

I think this arc was an excellent conclusion, and agree with pretty much everything you say about Ashoka, except for the idea that her actions make her a true Jedi. She’s so much better than that. The Jedi are an elitist, close-minded religious sect who position themselves as a powerful force for good in the galaxy,…

SAG rules probably. I doubt the British TV presenter Chris Evans is a member of the US actor’s union, if that’s who you’re referring to. Even US actors don’t necessarily change their names if they share one with an established US broadcaster, see Natalie Morales.

I had the pleasure of seeing Lloyd perform the one-man show Fully Committed at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years back. It was a great chance to see him show off his range beyond the sad sacks he usually played on TV, and he couldn’t have been a nicer guy after the show when he stayed behind to chat with several of us.…

I totally agree that those movies can be riffed really successfully, and I liked the riffing on Mac and Me a lot, as well as the Rifftrax you mention. Personally I think Rifftrax is a better home for those more well known movies, one of my favourite things about MST3K is how it usually presented a movie I have no…