In order to do what Frost wanted to do in 1992, and create a direct sequel to the series, they would have needed to walk back Cooper’s 25-year imprisonment in the Black Lodge. That was established very early on the series, and if Cooper was just rescued within a few weeks, it would have been a narrative cheat. It was…

I have an issue with this specific line of criticism of both the original Twin Peaks series and this movie, which is that rather than “filming anything he can think of regardless of whether it makes sense,” Lynch rigidly maintains an internally consistent logic throughout. The supernatural/fantasy element is meant to…

From what I’ve read it sounds like Shia needs someone to tell him that FKA Twigs is a person.

Well, I can see why Olivia Wilde might not have wanted to fuck Shia if he was acting like an abusive asshole during all the meetings and rehearsals and then claiming it was part of his process.

Checkmate, I guess, the series really had no subtext and it was just a dull face-value tale about which of ~30 named candidates among the aristocracy would become king or queen. In the end, they basically threw a dart at a board with the characters’ headshots and decided, oh, why not Bran?

I actually thought it would be a cool twist. Something along those lines would help to lend some meaning and shading to the completely ridiculous series of events around the White Walkers, as well as justify the existence of a prequel during a time period that appears to be uneventful. But alas they are boxed in by…

Didn’t they already show us the creation of the Night King in a flashback, where the Children of the Forest created him from a First Man to become a biological weapon that then went out of control? And I believe that happened thousands of years in the past, well before the timeline of House of the Dragon.

I thought it could have been interesting for Dany to literally “break the wheel” and establish a proto-democracy (an idea Sam is laughed at for suggesting in the series finale we got), only for Jon to rebel against her because he believes feudal monarchy is right and just.

I feel like that cringey “song of ice and fire” bit may be the only time that prophecy is mentioned for the rest of the series. There’s really nothing they can do here to fix the fundamentally hollow plot device of the White Walkers. We know what their deal was, they were ice zombies, and they get completely…

They’ve probably blown past the ability to have the original BrBa cast return to their roles in flashbacks. But Jesse’s involvement in the story down the road is not a stretch. He’s the only person alive who knows the Blue Sky formula. Someone in the Southwest/Mexico drug trade would be interested in that information. …

Walt is proud that he taught his greatest student to cook meth worthy of the Heisenberg name, and Jesse is able to maintain those standards even while enslaved.

I don’t know about that, I think shortly after the events of Ozymandias he just assumes Jack and Todd executed Jesse after torturing him for information, and he immediately regrets it (as seen in that great detail of Walt checking his watch in Ed’s holding cell, which I totally missed). He reacts with surprise and…

That’s all accurate, but one minor structural criticism I have with the overall BrBa story is that while we are beaten over the head with displays of Walt’s powerlessness and humiliation, at the end of the day, TV logic dictates that Walt cannot die or be arrested until the final episode.

In reading many of those interviews, where Gould and Gilligan kind of shame the audience for rooting for Walt, I feel like they may have miscalculated there. Because as awful as many of Walt’s actions are, they also made him an invincible badass who is constantly pulling off thrilling capers. Are you really not meant…

There are two different types of hosts here, and the writers haven’t always done a good job of distinguishing them:

Hale and William both make references to the other “cities,” implying that her control is global, but that she’s only allowed humans to live in a handful of cities around the world. Everyone in rural areas was wiped out, or something. But presumably Paris still exists as its own theme park and Hale has delegated the…

The handling of the Caleb storyline was just awful. I thought it was a questionable choice to kill off the only relatable human character on the show and make him a host, but going that route could have allowed them to address two mysteries that had been presented — why are some humans able to resist Hale’s…

As best as I can tell, literally every human character ever introduced on the show is now dead, except for Frankie and her girlfriend and a few outlier redshirts. But more than that, nearly all of the *host* characters are now dead except for the programs living in the server. It’s bleak!

Didn’t humans go extinct at the end? That’s not very optimistic. Why do I care what a bunch of software routines do inside a server farm after humans have all died out? I’m not sure I would watch the fifth season if there is one.

This season definitely had an issue where, on paper, the story had been expanded from a single theme park to the entire world, but it only ever felt like it took place in a depopulated Manhattan where there were never more than 10 people on screen at the same time. They were never able to move the story to the “real…