I mean, they could release it, they’d just have to pay some taxes they wouldn’t otherwise have to. It’s not, like, a violation of the laws of physics.

It would probably be easier to swallow if the actual underlying reason for it was more obvious: Netflix was operating at a big loss for a long time, but because they had continuous growth, investors were okay with waiting. Now the market is saturated, so investors want a return on their investment, which means cutting…

I mean, to be blunt, it’s probably a show that does really well with (e.g.) educated urban liberals and less well with (e.g.) less-educated rural conservatives.

You’re damn lucky I wasn’t drinking anything when I read your comment. Take your star.

I’ve been wondering whether whole excess deaths is the best metric, or if the age of those who died should be taken into account. E.g. on a statistical level, it’s clearly more damaging to a society to lose X people who each had 50 years of life left than X people who each had 5 years of life left. (This is not meant…

Avoiding doing real work is valuable.

The only worse approach would be to have an alarm clock go off and the Titanic rolls out of bed and goes, “Where the hell am I?”

How come nobody noticed that The White Widow’s eyes changed color?

But we all agree that it’s incredibly dumb that we’re spending time litigating this, right?

Are you astrosplaining to me?!

In the series finale, Jesus goes berserk and burns down Jerusalem.

In the sense that they’re mostly made of carbon.

So apparently it was only several hours they were “trapped,” and I guess since it was stormy weather nobody wanted to walk the half mile or so to the nearby village. It’s not like this is the wilderness, in clear weather anyone could easily have walked back to civilization.

BANJO!

It would have been funny if they’d had Kirk Fox play himself and have him constantly being bitter about how Marsden is a much more famous actor.

I was once on a jury with Marc McClure, who played Jimmy Olsen in the Chris Reeve Superman movies. Alas, though we both made it through voir dire, we came in the next day to start the trial and the judge told us that there’d been a “development” and the trial was going to be postponed indefinitely, so we were done…

Not that this is plausible for everyone, but I’d be perfectly happy with a model where you simply pay directly for each season of a show, or each movie. It makes you judicious in how you spend your entertainment dollar, you don’t get exposed to ads, and you don’t spend as much time sitting in front of the boob tube,…

Exactly. The point of entertainment isn’t just to fill up time when you’re not doing anything else; we can’t rely on the (admittedly enormous) corpus of existing works forever, or even for very long.

They should make a Die Hard 6, but it’s not an action movie, it’s just a drama about Holly living her life and dealing with the fact that her ex-husband is now suffering from dementia.

I posted in a thread up above, but it actually is plausible, because the 134 is part of the Ventura Freeway, and given proper lighting conditions (low smog, time of day) you can clearly see Century City from the 134 west above Eagle Rock. It’s unclear if this is what he meant, though.