I definitely like to think Gotham was in on the joke. It knew what it was. We maybe never got far enough into Pennyworth for it to get where it needed to be. And yeah, that’s going to be the dealbreaker for Gotham Knights: it probably doesn’t know what it is.

It only has one hope for me. A friend and I made a lot of laughs over 5 years watching Gotham (or as we called it, Got Ham) MST3K style and ripping it to shreds. I can imagine this being similarly awful and ripe for riffing. We tried to continue the fun with Pennyworth, but it was the victim of its own mediocrity.

Well said. It just seems like a non-issue. Not every restaurant needs to be for everyone all the time. There are still restaurants you can bring kids, complete with crayons and paper placemats and high chairs, and if I happen to go to one of those restaurants, I run the risk of hearing shrieking children throughout my…

If 60% of orders are custom, you have a problem. Either your menu doesn’t suit your customers’ needs, or you’re attracting a clientele that is actively attempting to make your company less profitable (it’s the latter). I suppose my typical order is technically custom, but I’ve more or less stopped going to Starbucks…

So excited for HBO’s biggest tax write off of all time.

My big concern with a Neuromancer adaptation is that the modern sci fi pop culture pantheon has picked Neuromancer’s bones clean so many times over that going back to the source is going to feel wildly unoriginal. And I’m not looking forward to people saying the Neuromancer TV show is ripping off The Matrix 20 years…

Linklater’s most recent rotoscoped feature, Apollo 10 1/2, was initially rejected by the Oscars as “not animation,” but upon appeal, they relented that it was animation, but still didn’t nominate it.

What really stung for me is that season 3 really demanded a follow-up. The end of season 2 was just one of the most fantastic crowd-pleasing finales of all time, to the point where I almost wish we never got a season 3 if we can’t have a season 4.

I don’t even think it’s a matter of quality, it’s a simple matter of megacorporations not believing in the law of diminishing returns. If they grew subscribers by 20% last year, they should be able to add 20% every year! If one Star Wars show netted them 3 million new subscribers, then 12 Star Wars shows should get…

Yeah, it definitely appears like the punchline is: there’s nothing funny about transphobia, albeit through the clunky delivery of AI.

And for the 584th time, everyone understands this and no one is ever going change the wording from “free” to “available at no additional cost to current Playstation Plus members with active subscriptions,” which is something that all 584 of these articles also mention.

Since the cited reason is that they want to go younger for Superman, I think it would be cool if they cast Cavill as Jor-El.

Exactly. I doubt she’s being boycotted by Connecticut’s best tippers.

I feel like the pandemic and writing from home really opened the team up, creatively. Like they set up their home offices and said, “screw it, I’m finally going to write that idea I had where it’s Fargo but Ned Flanders.”

I’d love to see them get even more meta and confront revisionism. Like, Rick finally does something so awful he has to be replaced by a different Rick from the multiverse, but then they look at examples set by Gravity Falls where they recast a role by Louis CK after the scandal, and grapple with whether or not new…

Good catch! My bad. Since it seemed to be more of a public thing in 2018 (well after Community, but right at the height of Rick and Morty), my brain just falsely attributed it to the wrong show.

Agreed on the wall episodes, but it also annoys me that those episodes seem to exist just for Roiland to prove that he knows how to write a coherent story, but he’d rather troll people by putting a halfway decent show inside of an incredibly stupid show.

Well, now we know what Jerry saw.

Frankly, I’m ready to love the show even more once some of the “vocal core audience” turns their back on it. I’m sick and tired of having to explain that I “like Rick and Morty” but am not “one of THOSE Rick and Morty fans.”