It also asks less of an audience because it’s clear Rowling herself isn’t that strongly influenced by the evolution of fantasy as a genre from Tolkien/Lewis through Jordan and LeGuin and into its more modern form with authors like Sanderson and GRRM.

When it came to their involvement in entertainment, yes, they could have told them to fuck off, at least if they were willing to take the publicity hit. The committee didn’t really have direct power to force Hollywood to fire anybody because of the first amendment. In large part their power was the result of them…

I believe the politically correct term is “homeless people”.

The best trailer for this movie would be, if instead of freezing up and looking like “Lucille Ball this is your life,” if they just had about twenty seconds of them doing an episode of the show and pulling it off.

I hate being “that person”, but Yellowstone is on the Paramount network, which is separate from Paramount+, and none of the episodes stream on Paramount+ (I know this because I received a text from my elderly mother wondering why she was paying for Paramount through her cable company if we had Paramount+, and me…

I’m ok with ghost kitchens for existing brands.

He loved one of them in Wall Street. Number 1 on my list of comedy bits that require an acting dynasty and two Oscar-winning films just to set up the joke.

Razbuten has some Youtube videos tagged “Gaming for a Non-Gamer,” where he has his girlfriend/wife play games. It’s pretty amusing, but it’s also an interesting glimpse into what games look like to someone with no experience. She had pretty drastically different expectations and ways of looking at things than someone…

Also...did they not play the first game?

That’s ummm...something.

am I the only one who saw the name “John Bishop” in the review and felt a brief twinge of joy thinking John Noble / Walter Bishop had joined the cast?

It was a great callback to all of the Ellen kerfluffle. And I got just the slightest sense of Stuart Smalley in that Mellen.

It was weird how Sudekis sorta jumped into each scene like a cartoon character.

What we have after 10 episodes amounts to little more than setup

He reunited with his Bosom Buddies costar in That Thing You Do!, that was also directed by Hanks

Biting the head off quickly is the most merciful way to dispatch a chocolate bunny but why split.... hares!

I never played Wizardry so I can’t speak for that, but did people who played Heroes really do this?

If Lex is the secret admirer, he might snark about it next week. 

I think his answering style was part of a strategy. You know how you know the answer, but you just needed an extra 1/2 second to get it from your brain to your mouth?

Seriously, Jesse, what is the point of releasing a movie review five or six weeks before the damn movie comes out? Who is this for? Tell your corporate overlords to get their shit together, this couldn’t be less useful right now.

It’s called a bottle episode, and when used sparingly are generally regarded as one of the best episodes of a series.