This isn’t actually true. Netflix and Marvel signed a deal about the four original shows and the Defenders miniseries. Netflix was able to have the episode number order for season two of Iron Fist revised down, but otherwise the terms were in Marvel’s (and Disney’s) favor. The Punisher, however, is being produced on…

There are two reasons:

Actually, almost every director who works for Marvel has to endure this. They can change lines in the script and direct the actors on the set, but the action scenes are generally handled by the second unit director and the VFX supervisor on the base of the pre-vis animatics approved by Kevin Feige. That’s one of…

You get it right. Hiring stars is all about securing promotion work for the project on TV or any mainstream interview. They basically act as ambassadors to the movie, while people generally don’t know who the director or the screenwriters are.

Where is Corporate?

The films are produced by Marvel Studios (aka Kevin Feige who answers directly to Alan Horn at Disney), the TV shows by Marvel TV (Jeph Loeb with some involvement by Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter).

Everything Gervais has done after he stopped working with Stephen Merchant is crap (which isn’t to say that Life Is too Short was great). Just regard Life on the Road as some bad autofiction written and directed by the actual David Brent, after he reached some self-awareness during the Christmas special. And it…

On the other hand, Ricky Gervais tried again to mine the show with David Brent: Life on the Road, and it was obvious how much he couldn’t recreate the old magic. Of course, it didn’t help that he made the film without Lucy Davies, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook (Garrett) and Stephen Merchant, as he wanted to keep the…

Got it.

Don’t forget “‘Til I Die” on Surf’s Up. Or the remake of “This Whole World” by Spring (aka Brian’s wife and sister-in-law/future lover, formerly two thirds of The Honeys) where Brian added a new bridge.

The whole article is indeed weird, at least for somebody like me, in my forties.

The article mentions what Dylan said, but, just after Love’s speech, Elton John (who was inducting the Beach Boys) commented on stage, “Thank fuck, he didn’t mention me.”

There are two mistakes in the article.

“Fuck them.” (Ernst Stavro Blofeld)

One of the few times I’ve fallen off the couch while watching TV.

Jack knew at least about the earrings.

Simon also lost a few inches in height when he became Candace.

There’s a ton of stuff that still makes zero sense in the script.

Cahill directed the pilot, which got him an executive producer credit for the rest of the season (I’m not sure he’s kept it), but he hasn’t been involved in the show beyond that. Marling is a frequent collaborator to Cahill, Batmanglij is a frequent collaborator to Cahill, but neither of them actually contributed to…

As one of his first decisions as the regional manager, Dwight fired Kevin. Then, he had his bachelor’s party at the bar that Kevin started after he was fired, and the two made up as Dwight explained to him that it was nothing personal, as Kevin was constantly making mistakes which cost the company a lot of money, and…