Superficially it’s all like “Revenge bad! Don’t do revenge!”. Yet Abby gets her revenge, finds peace.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s primary goal is to let audiences know John and Jane aren’t a version of James Bond; they’re regular folks. They could be anybody—so much so that, while running around New York City after an assignment goes awry, they complain about blisters and keep stopping to catch their breaths.

No one suggested that she looks the same, only that there’s no evidence of surgery. It turns out that heavy makeup (not to mention 10 years of aging) can significantly change the way a person looks without surgical intervention.

Yeah. I’m sure there’s a little more to it, but a 24% drop in scripted output when there was no one to script it for 40% of the year (and that’s not even considering the effect of the SAG strike lingering on for another 6 weeks), sounds like a real terms increase.

Ah, okay then. I do think Bosworth was miscast, but then it’s been so long since I saw the movie that it might be unfair on her performance.

[The actors] were way too young to be the same characters from the original two films

Wait, someone writing these jokes is saying Jack Black can’t sing?

After the runaway (fly away?) success of 2022's Top Gun: Maverick

I’m not sure the old generation of writers had much idea of how to construct 20 episode seasons either. Very few seemed to have any shape beyond “let’s have a big/arc moment every 6-8 episodes” and “it’s the finale, we have to end on a frustrating cliffhanger, even though we’re not actually renewed yet and may never…

Citadel’s poor writing is one thing, but worse is that the sets look like sets, the action is poorly choreographed and full of mediocre CGI work, the cast is decent, but there are no superstars likely to command crazy fees. So where the hell did the money go? How could they spend $300m and have it look so cheap?

I will forever maintain that Broadchurch is massively overrated, and what it did have going for it was in spite of Chibnall, not because of him.

You are warned. They make a fuss about Maruki leaving the school on a certain date, which is the only one that has a meaningful effect on the endings.

He makes movies that are fun to watch, and that’s it.

So in the regards of any future plans, titles, and such being leaked, I say “you reap what you sow.”

The X-Men multiplayer mode is planned to precede the main game? Is that right?

[He] thinks Bowen Yang deserves an EGOT for his impression of him on SNL. In other news, Santos has no idea who either James Baldwin or Harvey Milk are...

The Rock is as badly directed as every other Bay film though. It works as much as it does largely on the strength of the innate screen presence of Connery and Cage.

Never did it before (this time).

“Creatively break even”? His second passes often get tons of credit for being notably less bad than his first passes, but that’s a very, very low bar and they’re all still fucking awful.

Precisely because it demonstrates how pointless “total hours viewed” is as a metric. TV shows can and do have radically different lengths to each other as well.