Gotta say, I was lukewarm on the show continuing after being underwhelmed by season 3 (mostly because of the Varga character, who was unpleasant to watch and not remotely coherent or believable), but this premise sounds pretty dang fascinating. Count me in.

I hope not, but if someone saw the second trailer and got that impression from the hokey “psychotic hallucination” imagery (which is totally an invention of the marketing team; not one second of the film gets trippy in that way), I wouldn’t blame them.

Yep, it really is well done. Neither of the trailers so far have done it justice, and the more recent one is so misleading it’s almost marketing malpractice. Suffice it to say, Searching is not a found horror movie where John Cho stalks his own daughter on the Internet, Jesus Christ.

Ah, that could be it, couldn’t it? I wasn’t thinking of that as something that would remain a secret, since it happened in front of the entire assembled staff of HHM, but maybe Jimmy is too distraught to put two and two together as to the likely cause of Chuck’s “choice” to retire.

The thing that intrigues me the most in all the reviews and summaries thus far is the suggestion that Howard confesses some surprising secret. I can’t for the life of me think of what it could be, but I’m glad that Howard is still an important figure as the show grows more Breaking Bad-y. I’ve always thought he was an…

Some of it doesn’t even have to be intentional gaming. If you’re going to take the time to rate individual episodes of a series on IMDb, you’re probably a committed fan of that series. And it takes time for a show to develop a committed fandom, so IMDb ratings would naturally skew toward people who think the later…

In fact, the showrunners have mentioned that they basically did just that, both to the audience and to the actor himself. Supposedly they even had Schnapp read some preliminary “possessed Will” material in his audition to make sure he could handle where the character was going next.

That is a great episode, but in retrospect a very sad one. On first viewing, I expected it to lead to more Don/Bobby material down the road, as Don realizes that he does care about his son and needs to play a bigger part of his life. But since there really wasn’t any follow-up, it now plays as something much more…

Yeah, it’s hard for me to believe that the Duffers contrived an elaborate Steadicam shot in a room full of extras that took a whole bunch of extra takes to get right, for the sole purpose of making one of their child actors feel bad about herself—then bragged about it publicly in an aftershow produced by the company…

Hee! I actually could say a lot about the various Bobbys:

Kiernan Shipka, Mad Men. Sally Draper is one of my favorite characters in the series, and she only exists as more than a background role because Shipka demonstrated at a young age that she was capable of rising to the complex and demanding material Matt Weiner always wanted his show to focus on. I think she’d just…

My most distinct memory of Sleepy Hollow is that I talked my friends into seeing it in the theater instead of Princess Mononoke. It was not one of my finest moments, but in my defense, Tim Burton was only five years and one movie removed from Ed Wood at the time.

For Charlie, I was thinking Sigourney Weaver—older star with a distinctive voice and a badass but maternal vibe.

Vera Farmiga’s response should be “Don’t you put that evil on me, Millie Bobbie! Don’t you put that on us!”

But the whole point of Connor’s backstory is that he was raised by an adoptive father who loved him, who trained him both to survive in a hellish environment and to think of that place as his home. It’s not like the writers just didn’t think about what it would be like to grow up in a hell dimension; it was a…

Eh, to my mind baby Connor is mostly tedious until his final midseason arc, just an excuse for a lot of plotty nonsense in which boring guest characters fight over his supposed destiny. Teenage Connor, on the other hand, is super interesting and massively underrated. I think he’s one of the most important presences in…

He finally got the venue he wanted.

When we see Krazy-8 in Better Call Saul, he’s still a street dealer paying up to Tuco because he’s his supplier. It’s not just a tribute, he’s paying him his cut of the merchandise sold. In Breaking Bad, Krazy-8 is now in Tuco’s position—he’s the supplier who fronts the merchandise for the street dealers and then…

Skinny Pete tells Tuco, “You been keeping it real since you been sprung. What’s it been, like a year?” I’m not sure whether that means he’s been out a year, or it’s been a year since Skinny Pete last saw him in the slammer. In any event, he’s been out for at most a year by the time he takes over for Krazy-8.

Jesse mentions in Saul’s first Breaking Bad episode how he knows about him: