How soon we forget the netflixverse!  End of the day, you’ve either got a compelling narrative or you don’t: stretching it out over more episodes and trying to fill in the gaps with character moments works less often than we’d like.

Fucking amen.  If they don’t let her start scoring the films there’s no justice at all: she knocked it out of the park in every episode here.

Strongly agreed, actually. Bourdain didn’t commit suicide “because” of a person he was dating, even if she was kind of a terrible person. She would have still been kind of a terrible person if he had chosen to live. The ways in which she was a bad person don’t change what Weinstein (and for that matter the Italian…

Side-note: while the “Polybius” arcade game is an urban legend / internet meme that never actually existed in the real world, there is a real game called Polybius -- a tunnel shooter for the PS4 / PSVR.  It’s quite good!

Yeah, given the timing I think it’s highly likely that he’d found out about it.

I love Wild at Heart but I would not exactly call his performance in that one restrained.

That’s a lot of it, but there was also the part where she turned out to have committed statutory rape and paid off the child in question: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html

Obviously in the end, nobody chooses suicide except the person themselves, and there was clearly a lot more to that decision for Bourdain than whatever went on in the last two years of his life.

People got mad about Rey suddenly excelling in the Force without training, but the film simply doesn’t have time to give her that level of development.

The trailer has always left me with a question: was the “Who are you?” exchange recorded specifically for the trailer, or was there a scene between Rey and Maz Kanata that was cut so we could have more time for Oscar Isaac to explain the plot of the original movie to us in front of a green screen?

Pretty sure Jennifer Tilly was in the cast of the first Monsters Inc movie?

It’s a fair cop that Gibson is the worst part of the Gibson Hamlet.

The sad thing is that there’s so little competition.

Gibson’s a shitstain personally but hot take his Hamlet was better than Branagh’s.

Prior to the revelation about the impending apocalypse and his mandatory service, Dan is dealing with the deferment of his science-lab dreams, supported by his loving wife Emmy (Betty Gilpin) and their precocious nine-year-old daughter Muri (Ryan Kiera Armstrong).

The show really seemed like it was trying to simultaneously please two very different audiences: people who wanted to see an interesting adaptation of the story (hence John Hamm’s character), but also people who really wanted Neil Gaiman to sit at the side of their bed and read the story to them, hence the narration.

Yeah, Lady Vetinari as a concept is fine, but if you’re casting a gender-swapped Vetinari in a UK-produced series and you don’t at least try to get Olivia Colman to do it, what are you even doing?

Something about the angle on Tim Allen in the photo header for this piece made me realize that there’s an alternate universe where Nicholas Cage starred in Galaxy Quest and I would pay good money to see that movie.

Unless there’s a contentious divorce from Amanda Palmer going on behind the scenes that they’ve managed to keep out of the headlines, I wouldn’t think Gaiman would need the money.

Amen amen amen.  Look, I like Neil Gaiman as much as the next nerd, but his record on going back to the well on his old properties is as mixed as you’d expect, especially on TV.