Also, removing fantasy elements was the right move.

I get that it’s popular to call them the worst, but let’s be real — their approach whether you love it or hate it is why the show got made. Similarly, you might hate what they did in the end (and until/unless the books are finished we won’t know “whose” idea it was), but they also wrote and made the episodes…

As a viewer, I kinda got the sense that her f-bomb did hurt her, in that she seemed sort of tense and unsure of herself on the show for quite a while after that. But maybe that was just her sensing that she “didn’t belong,” as she put it.

My read was always that Nora’s story wasn’t true, partly because I think that’s the more interesting possibility—because in that case the form that story takes says something about her as a character, and not just about the physical nature of the show’s sci-fi universe.

I’d say the best of the series is in line with the Nora and Matt episodes from season 1. If you didn’t like those episodes, you’re probably not going to like the rest of the series. But if what you don’t like is the quasi-Six Feet Under family drama stuff with the Garveys, that eventually goes away and the series is…

Honestly, ending the movie with Jesse behind the wheel of a car with the crime/violence in his past and nothing but a question mark ahead of him left me thinking “what was the point? That’s the exact status the finale left us with.”

I guess we’re supposed to assume that the punishment he got from the nazis was enough to cure the guilt that prevented him from leaving before.

Maybe, though the article mentions that “second season ended with Dory getting arrested for the murder that she committed at the end of season one,” so that would be a rather selective avoidance of spoilers.

accidental murderer Dory

Vincent Kartheiser as Jared.

Oh, I assume they’re not gonna end up in the Bad Place to be tortured for all eternity, but I could see them ending up in a newly expanded Medium Place, or something like that.

Yeah, I’m kind of expecting the series to end with the Soul Squad failing to win humanity a place in paradise, but looking around wherever they end up instead and realizing they can make it into a paradise through their own diligent efforts. “This is the Good Place!”

I think it was an issue with camera cues. For whatever reason, the wardrobe lady thought they were tight on Woody and/or Kenan, not realizing they were in the wide shot showing Aidy and the entire set.

It’ll be awful, but not as awful as the year when GoT’s season 5 finale, probably the worst written episode of the series to that point, won best writing over The Americans’ “Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep,” Better Call Saul’s “Five-O,” and the last two episodes of Mad Men—literally any of which was more…

Do you honestly think that I’m using that term in earnest and not, y’know, paraphrasing the scene in the movie in which it was used by homophobic bullies?

Richie ends up going back to the arcade to get a token, suggesting that it, and perhaps that boy, might have really meant something to him. Or he could have just liked video games. Who knows?

I would definitely not call it a disaster, in large part because it succeeds at the one thing I most doubted it would be able to pull off—recapturing the warmth and charm of the original child characters from the first film with the all-new adult cast.

The idea was that he was a former hockey player who was thrown out of the league for illegal gambling and then busted for tax evasion, so the judge ordered him to work as a social worker as punishment.

Saw this at Sundance and I agree with the critical consensus. The cast is way too good for this movie to be as merely okay as it is. It does have some laugh-out-loud moments, but it mostly features the sort of claptery, “Corporate culture is the worst, amirite?” semi-humor that you more often see in a first feature…

I don’t know, I think the film would’ve worked just fine by presenting only Tom’s perspective. To me the problem has always been the way in which the movie initially suggests that Tom’s perspective reflects some larger objective truth.