Exactly. And especially in this day and age of slashed soap budgets, a lot of the regular soap actors barely make a living wage— I know that’s true of the vast majority of actors of course, so is kinda a terrible excuse, but unless you’re a “legacy” character, if you have a regular gig on a soap you aren’t making the…

I wouldn’t put it past them, but really I can’t imagine we’ll have any network daytime soaps in ten years...

At least the Jack Sparrow animatronic is beautifully done (I’m frankly more annoyed with the changes over the years to the bride auction scene—hence my reference to We wants the redhead—even though of course I understand why Disney became, errr, uncomfortable with it. I guess you can always go to the version at Tokyo…

Actually a pretty good list, I think. Nice to see The Innocents and The Haunting (a great double feature) up high. Also loved the Japanese Dark Water.

While maybe not quite a great movie, I was surprised not to see Burnt Offerings which seems to have been rediscovered recently.

Star seems to be essentially making variations of the same show now (between Younger, Emily in Paris and Uncoupled) and they certainly are all focused on characters who don’t have to worry about money (to put it mildly—Uncoupled had a big plot point about Neil Patrick Harris not being able to afford his apartment as a…

I am a lapsed daytime soap fan—I just don’t think any of the remaining ones are any good at all (and really even when we still had my fave, All My Children, it’s last years mostly... weren’t great either.) There’s a variety of reasons for this—lower budgets, but also oddly as ratings continue to dwindle they’ve…

Pretty sure the WDW one (set in colonial/New England Liberty Square and not New Orleans Square like Disneyland) isn’t meant to be New Orleans based...

And of course they’ve put Sparrow and at least one other of the movie pirates in the rides now (which I kinda hate but I’m a grumpy purist who still wants the redhead.)

Right, but a lot of modern films literally have 10-15 minute long closing credits.  Surely this wasn’t true in the 80s (and of course classic movies had 3-4 minute opening credits, but virtually no closing credits except maybe a cast list.)

I... kinda enjoyed the first two episodes? I admit I just find it a pleasant, easy watch (mostly due to the cast—even if I can’t stand a certain cast member this year, sorry Ken Jeong fans.) Rarely laugh out loud funny, but enough silly or weird bits that make me smile and not get bored so... there’s that. And to be…

No worries--I actually didn’t know a lot of those, or had forgotten.  I always go back to hearing how she appropriated Vogue from the gay ballroom scene, etc, nothing with such direct visuals.

Yep yep, sorry my comment acting shocked at Madonna being called out for appropriating from minorities was meant to be sarcastic...

I didn’t think Mayans or The Old Man were “buzzy” but that just is my own limited experience. Has any show before moved from the (ridiculous) FX on Hulu to, umm, regular FX? (Here in Canada they confusingly sometimes do air on regular FX Canada or else on Disney+ where most Hulu stuff goes...)

“I’m baffled that they didn’t just air this on FX linear”

I don’t fully understand the reasoning, but for a while now it seems like FX has released all their buzzy shows to FX on Hulu...

I mean I grew up as an All My Children addict (I know, I know...) so one of the joys I find with most serialized TV is the anticipation.  But I admit I also have the bad habit that if I’m on a TV show or miss the buzz period I often won’t have the drive to watch it again--if there’s just a couple of episodes to catch…

I can binge something light if I have a day off and nothing going on but even there the max is usually 4 or 5... For a heavier show more than 2 is usually hard.

I do find it funny that I know people who complain about long movies, but will binge 6+ hours of a single tv show (though I know if a show is done well they…

Good point--I remember them trying a few techniques with the binge dump shows--one a day, sometimes two at different times of the day, etc--for longer binges it honestly got hard to try to match the pace...

“I didn’t watch Ted Lasso or Barry until their entire runs were done, to name two more recent examples.”

And what did you do when people would discuss the just aired episode?  Did you have anyone to discuss the early episodes with when you were binging at the end?  (Yes these are very important questions.)

Meh, it hasn’t seemed to have cause issues with rock stars like Mick Jagger...

I hate commenting on even such extreme plastic surgery, but honestly that was my first thought as well.