How could you brush over “The Brady Kids” cartoon so lightly? The fact that they now have two pet pandas and a magic-using bird should be enough for at least a clip. How about this one where Jan gets to hang out with WONDER WOMAN:

The film telegraphs, pretty clearly, that everything terrible has happened to Ned Merrill in the past and he has had some sort of psychotic breakdown and is living in a state of denial.

my feeling with the scientologists is that they are creepy and a problem in any context.

but moss is by *far* my least favorite of that group because she consistently takes roles that are supposed to be comments on abused women, societal oppression of women, violence against women. the hypocrisy of her trying to frame…

Don’t answer that, we all know who you’re blowing.

I bailed on this the moment Moss tried to hop on the “this film is about victims of abuse” bandwagon, whilst also standing by a cult that systematically protects rapists and punishes women who speak out against it.

Or more alluring, for that matter? Jesse, I don’t think this word means what you think it means.

Troll harder.

The Falling Bowl of Petunias.

The casting of Elizabeth Moss in another female empowerment story baffles me.

The surprise twist at the end is that Moss’ character, the entire time, was a member of a global cult whose mission is to financially, emotionally and physical abuse (gaslight?) any member who attempts to leave!

I have a knee-jerk aversion to basically all memetic terms, including (currently) gaslighting. They are over- and mis-used by people who generally think they are a lot smarter than they really are. That said, I think it’s completely correct and appropriate here. The villain is literally trying to make the protagonist…

I think it really comes down to having an “in” to the “horror”.

It’s also a trick that’s lost its luster because Marvel has gone to the well so many times—there’s been a lot of alternate reality/time travel/temporary death nonsense in the time since the originals. This doesn’t hold much more weight than an issue of What If?, so it’s nice if it’s done well, forgettable if not.

The original line of Marvel’s The End series made some sense because they were written by beloved creators who had long runs on the those respective characters. I don’t really get the point of these new specials because most of the creators have little or no experience with the character. When Peter David tells you…

Looks like they fixed it. :) 

Garcia? Did she drop her first name?

“I’m dressed as a bear! Bear! Bear!
Running I don’t know where! Where! Where!
I flee and I fly, on and island am I,
Now it’s time to punch this girl scout in the faaaaace.”

Now I really want to see a musical adaptation of Wicker Man.

The Wicker Cat

The plot was (and still is) nonsense—it’s about a tribe of cats called the Jellicles who come together once a year for a ball in a junkyard to decide which one of them will be sent to the Heaviside Layer, a kind of feline hereafter, to be reborn.