does the artist winning in 2011 not count? (edit: i see you specifically said it was because he preferred b&w as opposed to trying to emulate an older movie, which is a very specific caveat but i’ll let anything slide for wilder)

I kinda loved Schmigadoon. It shouldn’t have worked, and in a lot of ways didn’t work, but somehow it also kinda worked. Most of all, the cast was amazing, like, super amazing. Their commitment to the very silliest of premises and the sheer amount of talent involved just made it fun to watch every time.

Be careful what you wish for. Weird Al was on in the 80s, made himself look like a jerk in front of millions of people, and didn’t even get a lousy copy of their home game.

It can be. The problem is none of them work at the AV Club anymore.

What’s important here is that he was clearly sincere about it.

That wasn’t Dave Foley. That was Enema Bag Jones.

I had a similar thought about Lars in this episode. He’s such a cartoonishly bad person and partner while Indira is consistently tough and no-nonsense. There is something missing in the show to explain why she puts up with him and puts herself into terrible debt to support dreams she clearly knows will never pan out.…

Like, why did she marry this guy?

To me he’s so loathsome that I think the writers might have over-egged it a bit. I don’t doubt that people like him exist in the world, but in this show he feels like a cartoon character. Abusive, unemployed , financially and emotionally draining, just comically awful with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Exactly. Folding the band IS honoring her. It is the highest honor really, to say openly, “You were so important that this cannot exist without you.” Like Zeppelin after Bonham died. Anyone advocating for them to do a tour anyway is almost certainly a fan who is really just speaking to their own self-interest (namely,…

Superstore also knew when to end and, contrary to a lot of shows, did so perfectly (at least to me).  I say this as someone that just rewatched Scrubs, even the 9th season in “med school”.

Also, Mark McKinney

Another utter whiff of an episode. So Thrawn gets flung to another galaxy with an entire Star Destroyer at his disposal and just....waits around, orbiting a janky-ass nowhere planet when he has no real hope of rescue just....because?

Thank you! People need to stop retconning the EU as being bad from a logical standpoint. A lot of it was just bad from the standpoint of being bad. The books you mentioned in particular are just crappily written. And plenty of others were just plain boring.

Once again, I am one of the (few?) people watching this show who could have used another hour of this episode, I loved it so much.

Random thoughts in no particular order:

Kinda red v. blue but mostly a concern about highbrow HBO scaring off lowbrow Discovery subscribers. So. Many. Thinkpieces.

“Cleopatra was Greek!” Oh, Lawd! Why would that be a good thing to you, Amir? You’re Egyptian.”

Hey look, Amir’s an Egyption who probably just doesn’t know what’s best for him.  He needs a civilized person to guide him.  You know, to sort of lift him out of barbarism or whatever...