“Again, Greg is weirdly not spoken of with any sense of reality. Not a mention of where he went, what he does..... he’s ambiguously just “gone”. I think the Tarot Card Reader determined he’s with a deceased wife he still loved - and she freaked out. It would also explain Tanya reliving his complaints about her…

“Sure, a young twenty something and attractive woman wouldn’t find an older man that attractive, but Giuseppe isn’t bad-looking. He reminds me of a young Jack Nicholson. But glad Mia stopped equivocating and embraced breaking bad.”

Yeah, I find the characterization of Giuseppe actually kinda interesting.  Yes, he’s…

I want a change from the sun entirely--a ski vacation here in Canada?  :P

Ha I wondered if anyone would comment on that—and how the James Lapine shows have better first acts than second acts.

And I still see Follies as a one act show.  But I do think Act II of Pacific Overtures, as well as (pulling a trump card) West Side Story and Do I Hear a Waltz? are better than Acts I....

I’m... not sure, but it sounds like it was close to. Every production after the original London one (which is not the current London production) had about 20 mins trimmed though—starting with the original Broadway production--in London it did originally run over 4 hours. I thought more trimming had been done since,…

Agreed, as I said in my endless rambly post.  I have a ton of affection for Menken, and at the time was underwhelmed with Enchanted’s score but in hindsight it (and, yeah, I might add Tangled) are pretty solid with what he’s done since.

Right, although with each revival they try to shrink Les Miz so they won’t risk having to pay theatre staff any overtime. 

Well you said you were *guessing* ITV was like NBC and Channel Four like Fox. I get what you meant, but I thought it was worth pointing out that they operated differently, whereas NBC and Fox were both commercial TV networks which operated similarly. But Channel Four had government imposed guidelines on their…

I mean if you like For Good, that’s in Act II.  The problem traditional musicals have had since the Rodgers and Hammerstein model is usually Act II (which according to that model should be almost half the length of Act I--audiences are antsy) has to have a LOT more exposition to deal with all the set up of Act I, and…

Yeah the two part aspect, and the aspect that they still seem to be casting it (still?) are two aspects that do not bode well. 

Well I definitely would give this more than a D+ but I also don’t fully disagree with this review.
I’m not sure if it went into production once they had already decided it would be direct to Disney+ and not streaming (but I sort of remember that being the case) and I admit I would have been FAR more disappointed with…

Interesting!  I admit my main experience with it is right after high school I spent a year in the UK and that was when the original Queer as Folk aired on Channel 4 (granted fairly late at night--I think at 10:30?  Though I’ve read that was not just due to content but also they didn’t think they had a hit on their…

We also heard Greg tell the driver to go to the airport in this week’s episode... 

Channel 4 actually is a bit of a special case. While it is advertiser supported, unlike ITV, it is publicly owned and required to fulfill certain obligations, which is one reason it has a reputation for slightly more experimental programming, as well as being at least better than average at programming focusing on…

Her character had a song that was cut from the first film (though I’m not sure if it even got as far as being filmed.)

Well yeah.  As “suck it” originally was too, though I think now few people think of it in that term. 

I mean for a long time now people with VCRs, PVRs, whatever, have experienced the 48 SNL. Decades really. How long did Hulu have it ad-free? Did you drop cable to depend on Peacock having ad-free programming? (That sounds antagonistic but I’m genuinely curious—here in Canada you can watch it online the next day with…

“I can’t imagine anyone being overtly bigoted toward any other race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or orientation who would then continue to be supported by the people they were bigoted toward but here we have people like Chappelle being given an open forum on a show run by Lorne Michael Lipowitz. It’s a bizarre…

I didn’t agree with a lot of this review—which seemed to want to actually kinda have it both ways. But I don’t see how anything written in it conforms to whatever: “(1) their inability to hold back their arrested 5-year-oldish emotional development from controlling their cognitive facilities and (2) their absolute…

And it doesn’t make any sense from what we’ve heard of the writer’s room.  It’s not like SNL suffers from too many writers diluting the brilliant writing that could be happening...