Avengers Amortize!

the show’s Tickle Me Elmo knock-off

I want to highlight that “JJ’s” “I thought I killed you” was a well-executed surprise, since there was (I’m pretty sure) no foreshadowing that the switch was anything besides “actress leaves show”. Although now I’m wondering if they just pulled it out of their ass because they were able to get China McClain back for…

And, for that matter, NBC/Universal, and Warner’s (because of the Harry Potter parks).

It’s like they heard “Kennedy” and thought “OK...they had hair, right?  I wonder what it looked like.  Surely there’s no way to find out for real.”

I took it as a meta-joke on the audience, or about expectations — I just finished it an hour ago, so it’s fresh — the line is “Hot take: I think Ashley faked her own death”. Because, if you’ve watched any TV, you’re watching this whole thing and thinking, why did they have one character die before the story starts,…

I just finished it a few minutes ago, and would like to point out that Renee Elise Goldsberry is fifty years old.

Yes, there was an ad for the trailer during the show.  An ad for a trailer.  Yup.

“The actress has said more than once that she looks like Beth. Therefore, the question of similarity in sexual life cannot be avoided.”

I feel that Cecily’s huge performance as Judge Jeanine, ending with My Way for God’s sake, has got to be a self-goodbye.  Almost nobody gets an explicit on-screen salute except, for some reason, Kirsten Wiig.

Episode 6 of Girls5Eva on Peacock makes a point that’s similar to the first part of your posting, and also features Bowen Yang in a significant role, which is really why I’m telling you about it.

YouTube took that one down, so try this:

Smallville has always been in Kansas in every incarnation (I’m 90% sure), because you can make up a fictional small farming town in a given state. It’s just Metropolis (and the other big DCU cities) that wobble in geography.

“As a Jewish person, I’ve been browbeaten by my rabbis...”

If you’ve never read Fleep, which this description reminds me ok...here it is. You can get through all of it in 10 minutes.

If you’ve seen Robin Thede as a man (occasionally) in A Black Lady Sketch Show...looks like that, just with a longer beard.

“All the episodes” is the first 6 of (I guess) a 12-episode season; I don’t know if the split is from Covid, the Whedon stuff, or both.

Actors don’t have rules about steroids, so...?

It was pretty interesting that Original Anna-Kat had serious behavioral issues, beyond “quirky;  that’s why they kept mentioning Dr. Ellie. I can see why they decided to move away from it, tough.

That Draco does not redeem himself is a mystifying choice by JKR. “Child bully finds he’s more than that” is a great plot; “child bully becomes an adult threat” is acceptable, I guess. “Child bully turns out not to matter much” is...what?