Looks like the last three Bond movies cosplayed by Tom Cruise.  Every single scene was in one of those Bond movies in some way.  

Ironic that the real Mission Impossible is escaping from Scientology.

Also the IMF needs to disavow Ethan around the second act.

I want an IMF movie where they don’t have to go rogue. MI2 and MI3 were the closest we got to them functioning somewhat normally, and even then we got Rogue Ethan. 

The key, I think, to how well the Mission movies have worked is their single minded dedication to their plot formula. They found one that worked right off the bat and have never dropped it.

Plot: Old IMF agent turned bad shows up, Hunt’s team is framed and they go on the run, good guys are actually bad, etc. etc.

I think the overall fan and critical response to Lost was a lot more... mixed... than you’re giving it credit for, especially retrospectively.

I feel like Severance is absolutely a Mystery Box show and if the comments are any indication to go by, people are loving it.

To anyone who thinks Lost is one of the best television shows ever, I would just say that it’s cool speaking to a traveler from 2006, you’re about to have a black president, which is pretty awesome, and I don’t have the heart to tell you anything else.

Wait, sorry: Lost, one of the best television shows of all time? I’ll grant you the somewhat revolutionary week-to-week mystery-box theorizing, but as someone who stuck with it through the entire run, I can assure you Lost was not great television. Compelling, sure; ambitious, definitely; but they fully admitted they…

Makes case for binge watching, mentions “why not just make several movies’ worth?” then ends with “I don’t want to watch multiple movies!”

I think with Amazon it’s because they used to drop them all at once like Netflix and don’t anymore. Then they switched to a front heavy first drop, then weekly for the rest of the season. At least this is what the did for The Boys season 2 and presumably 3.

I feel like Wandavision is the closest we’ve gotten in the past year or so.  And there was a case where the audience fundamentally trying to make MORE mystery box out of it.

“Why isn’t modern television more like this infamously hated exemplar of bad writing and pacing?”

I bet its less for attention and more that we have to pay for Netflix for longer periods of time  instead of binging it all.

Yeah, I prefer the weekly release schedule. It’s easier to talk to people online when things get released one week at a time. It’s not like people can’t just binge the show all at once when it’s finished “airing.” I binged the first two seasons of The Mandalorian. I don’t begrudge that other people got to watch it…

Disney+ (which has released some of the most talked-about streaming shows) releases all of their shows episodically as well. As does Apple TV+. And HBO Max. And Paramount+. For some reason though, I only see Amazon get shit for that, when it’s actually pretty helpful for online discussion.

If you only want to watch one episode of Stranger Things per week, you can.

Tell me you have a first world problem without telling me you have a first world problem.

I’m sure that subscribership will take a hop upwards just for this show. This ensures that there isn’t immediate cancellation and milks at least two months from the spike, which I imagine they sorely need. I think that’s mostly ok.  Mostly. At least they aren’t releasing it purely episodically! ::glares at Amazon::