The screen tests are great and revealing of a strange moment, there was this new feel in LA and some of these guys were musicians in itbut now had to do the TV thing. So it's interesting to see how quick thinking they might be within that kind of fairly stupid system — I recall Nesmith standing up during the session,…

That perfectly describes the original series of Beatle cartoons too.

Phyllis Diller is royalty. Sharon Stone should revive whatever is left of her career and play her in a biopic, do the reverse makeup trick the Academy Awards used to love (women play "less attractive" with makeup, prosthesis etc..)

Especially for that time period, The Monkees were so brilliantly packaged right from the start, and that included the fourth wall breaking attitudes. The opening titles stood out from everything else of that moment because of energy and aspirational feel. A slightly high speed montage of riffing older basically tired…

Agree regarding seeing some new Wander drawings and expressions. In that respect, with all the visual sides of the Heebie Jeebies ep, I would loved to have really seen more of the WoY perspective on what seemed like a reference to the Fleischer aesthetic with the ghosts. Along with the Wilhelm Warbler (a ghost as…

Sure, I agree this is not intending to reinvent cinema, but a trailer is the format meant to really set the feeling of what lies ahead. Brevity means the director can/must be going for something unique, even more abstract and impactful than certainly they would do with the actual series.

And Lana was with both Cyril and Archer. The former always seemed an odd choice unless in the time-travel theory, she somehow she had just unconsciously detected Archer's genetic makeup resides in part with Cyril.
Still, time travel has concerns, mostly I wouldn't want Archer and Lana to turn into Frye and Leela.

"Talented" he is, but TV especially, 30 Rock and Community are some c.v. as writer/actor. But the "very" connects to "uneven results" and way too much pretentiousness when he's on his own - i.e. Clapping For The Wrong Reasons. Same director as this series clip too. I'm definitely interested to see this TV project,…

That finale blurb really starts off with a pretty bleak tone: "With just one surviving planet left…"

Using the name "Steven Quartz" was interesting. "Universe" was his father's last name of course, of whom this season there is so little presence. And where is Connie with all this Gem on Gem friendship going down with Steven.

Agree with hit or miss but now a relatively sudden upswing in better episodes overall. It's still a one-time viewing only, but the interaction between other characters and more developed personalities helps to make relationships more inviting to watch as well as Clarence's reactions. I like the way the character of…

Well, I don't think it's about remakes only, which has existed as has everything in the scripted world I suppose, since quite some time, but what changed in the idea behind doing it, what changes with Hollywood productions going away from cinema to re-animator of other products. Certainly in the past, the standard was…

There is something uncomfortable with remakes, that I think connects with the fact Hollywood long ago seemingly lost the ability to afford to be "just" cinema, and instead became a re-animator of other product. It really kicked in with late 80s through the 90s mining the potential income from a generation's TV…

Not a finale feel ep compared to others, true. Ken Jeong as an actor plays well with quick-shifts in physical visual face or body language and dialog together, here it's the opposite, even the piano breaks down off screen. In Community his character went through so many states it was hard to follow and enjoy, but…

Yeah, I think it could have been condensed to two bits, the beginning couch gag and the end add-on, the idea of trying out the live-2d animation set (both for East Coast and West Coast feed) of Homer reacting to viewer calls. That resided in an unsettled aesthetic area between game and cartoon, and event feeling, but…

I've watched two eps now, I would say to its credit it definitely has a unique approach to deal with her tough theme, and very much so a structured work - thankfully. It is great Netflix is supporting that. I guess after a few more eps it takes the investment as to how much I want to follow the character of Maria…

Right, of course Florida would be the state to survive all that chaos and catastrophe.

The episode seemed off with Lana/Archer, and alot of harangue without much for Lana to actually do. She's more professional at the least - they weren't doing anything to get anyone caught, but, like constantly. And Lana not knowing those CIA histories seems just bad writing. Especially when they've shown her backstory…

A marked improvement this season is certainly the reassignment of the Eddie character to one of the family, rather than the subject and main character of the show. There is a nice feel to the different ensembles working in the show who are also able to act— the family, or just the brothers, or then Eddie plus his…

From the notes given, the film seems to shares some of the plot (with a more straightened out sensibility) with Cronenberg's "Map to the Stars". Mia Wasikowska was in the assistant role with other factors going on, and of course, Robert Pattinson continued to make me wonder why Cronenberg see him as necessary.