Hooooly shit. At least I know in advance what I'll be having a nightmare about tonight. (Also, on behalf of my city, I apologize for the shitty hotel and service).

I, too, am a big black dude with an irrational fear of roaches, which of course are approximately 1/1,000,000th my size, but make up for it by being about as innumerable as the stars, a thought which just made a grown man shudder right now. It's always reassuring to know I'm not the only one.

I was thinking of the Bloods….

Yeah, Daredevil is "differently abled" in a very, very literal sense of the words. He can detect most things anyone else can, and in some cases even more, just not via conventional human sight.

Oh, I wish I didn't remember.

Jay's propensity for self-pity (dating back, at least, to "Lucky Me" off his second album) has always been a big hurdle to me enjoying some of his work. It feels slightly more self-aware / less obnoxious here than in other places (it might have been at its worst on The Black Album), but it's still a detriment. He's…

I can. I'm just pointing out that the idea that "in real life two people can't keep a shitty secret for an hour" shouldn't be taken literally. You were probably being hyperbolic, but I have encountered many people who take the "conspiracies are basically impossible" notion to heart, and are then dismissive of the…

No doubt. But that goes to my point of "when properly motivated." People can be motivated for various reasons (or at least various shades of self-interest). This Earhart theory comes off as nonsense given the channel it's coming from and the spaciousness of the "proof," but not because human beings are utterly…

Kids love a good vanishing.

While this "theory" does reek of bogus nonsense, I like to point out that in real life several people can keep a secret for years or even decades when properly motivated. The people of Skidmore Missouri kept quiet about a public murder witnessed by dozens of locals.

*shrug* The "stop running to text" bit got a chuckle out of me.

Biggie good? Absolutely. Better, in my opinion.

"I had coffee. It was delicious."

"subtle as syphilis"

While I agree with you that the numbers didn't justify another full season (as if I could sensibly disagree; the numbers here do not lie), the Netflix model does make wrapping up a series—even if it's just a one-off ep like this—more sensible for the reasons Ta-er stated, as opposed to the normal television model…

Guardian has an article about it. "Baby Driver: can a bad title sink a film".

Hell, it didn't net any money in its theatrical run. It grossed $47m worldwide against a $60m budget. It surely recouped some of that with tv rights and home video sales, etc., but that's a pretty big flop to overcome. The fact that he was once still pegged for a Marvel flick (despite his departure) and was still able…

Well, it also appears to share the, "trying to get out of this crime business but others won't let me," and "I fell for a girl I just met and want to runaway with her" ideas, among a couple of other very general, familiar plot pieces, but all of those are also pretty standard in the "action-thriller kit." Off top,…

Lucy did well, though. It made 3x's its budget domestically and 11x's its budget worldwide. And that was back in 2014. After that came and did its numbers, Marvel was out of excuses for holding back on a Black Widow flick.

I think that flip back had more to do with the actual code being broken as fuck when they tried to implement it. They still ended up doing what they intended to do regarding creating scrolling newswires, just in a different, more effective manner.