I definitely thought this was the clunkiest episode of the season—but actually Henry’s speech on pretending and then his acting... was one of the things that didn’t work for me (neither did the two students) the most.

However, I did enjoy all the ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore references because my mother took us to a…

I’m usually that grumpy guy who doesn’t laugh at brilliant slapstick, but that was just brilliant.

Right.  If the reveal had been him making out with a woman who was part of the troop, would it have gotten the same reaction (or at least intended reaction?)  No way.  Things like that were still maybe edgy 20 years ago, but...

Great return. I don’t usually binge watch shows, but I was kinda hoping we’d get 2 a week at least—that said with only six this season, maybe it’s good to paces them out.  I had planned on doing a rewatch of the original series before this started, but didn’t get around to it, so I appreciated that it had just enough…

I took my soaps *very* seriously and resented DAYS because it shared a time slot with AMC here—and in the mid 90s when James Reilly took over the writing (the future Passions creator) and created his formula of increasingly over the top stories starting with a burried alive plot and then climaxing with the demon…

Yeah first came the short lived Aaron Spelling soap Sunset Beach which replaced Santa Barbara (and later Another World)—and oddly was a huge cult hit in the UK where they’ve even released it on DVD—and then Passions replaced it, created by the guy who had made DAYS into a ratings hit by writing the demon possession…

Since this article seems to like giving credentials to his surviving family members, of trivia interest is their mom, Lesley Vogel, did one soap for a brief time, the mostly forgotten Loving, where he character was married to Bryan Cranston’s.

I admit, I grant my fave theme parks a lot of good will, but I really hate these expensive add ons to “improve your experience.”  Luckily, they also don’t really appeal to me, so I guess it’s moot.

No. There is a larger, better Nintendo World at the Universal in Japan (largely because Hollywood has so little room for expansion, but also the Japanese theme parks seem to spare no expense and do these things better...)

I can’t believe no video if these exists.  As someone who has always been fascinated by animatronics--even (maybe especially) terrible ones--this fascinates me.  I see that they used to populate a Cheers at my local airport in Vancouver, but I would have been too young to be able to get in at the time...

Not sure about the others, but Poirot was never BBC, it was on commercial network ITV. As was the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes. As was the Geraldine MacEwan/Julia MacKenzie Marple, although the beloved Joan Hickson Marple *was* BBC as was the most recent Partners in Crime/Tommy and Tuppence ;)

You make a list of major actors to play Sherlock on screen and leave off Basil Rathbone?  The actor probably most responsible for our modern image of the character?

Thanks for that!  Good video, if a bit all over the place.

Aren’t live studio audience sitcoms still juiced with canned laughter anyway? They used to be, anyway—

There’s a theory that as the average life expectancy rises in general people age slower (one reason why before the 20th Century there wasn’t really a teenage stage—and it wasn’t *just* because so many people had to start work young.) I mean even looking at my parents or grandparents high school year books compared to…

Well we agree on your last point.  And of course I can’t argue with your opinion on the first film--I like it and the general consensus now seems to be (even among many hardcore Rice fans) that it’s good.  I was just objecting to you saying Rice wrote unfilmable material because she hated the movie so much which,…

Trust me you aren’t missing anything--except that I assume Rice finally decided she liked the idea of a Lestat that could have sex.

I don’t remember the details—but was that even in the first book? A lot has been changed (I’d say even more than in Interview—and I kinda get the reasoning for that that since the book is like all mood and, well, moody monologues).  That said, I doubt she will show up if it continues for more seasons.

Lestat can get it up (apparently) in the later books, at any rate.  Because, I guess Rice got bored of him not being able to so had him see someone about that...

Creative debacle of the Neil Jordan film?  I thought the general consensus (certainly mine, anyway) now was that ultimately it mostly worked really well.