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I do think Midnight Club gets short shift—I know a lot of Flanagan fans never bothered with it because of the YA bent, and others now have heard that it ends on a cliffhanger and refuse to watch an unfinished show (which is too bad because that cliffhanger is just a way to leave it open for season 2—otherwise the show…

Ha I loved Dickensian.  But that was more like UK soap Eastenders with Dickens characters.  This sticks to Poe’s themes heavily, and a *few* of his plot elements (fewer than I expected) but it’s not like the actual Poe characters are there.

I actually thought this was strong until the ending—a LOT of talky/borderline sentimental speeches (which I feel has been true of his other series.) But I thought it mostly earned that so can’t complain—but the middle was actually my favourite stuff. The problem with the format is you know that by the end most of the…

I’m trying to imagine Frank in the role... And can’t. I can certainly in some scenes, and while I’ve never been a big Langella fan (reading his “everyone wanted me to fuck them because I was the most beautiful man alive and some lucky people got what they wanted” memoirs didn’t help) but he IS a strong actor so maybe…

Yeah, season 2 had a cast I maybe liked even more, but I found myself only half watching a lot of the episodes (adding two more episodes didn’t help.)

Yeah I HATE to compare him to Ryan Murphy (although so far Usher *does* have some rather Murphy elements in design/camp, just done better) but like Murphy, he already has a group of actors to pull from with usually only a few being new to one of his projects by this point (in fact at least five of the younger…

It actually does have more “ghosts you don’t immediately notice just hovering there” than any of his shows since Hill House I think (well...  Midnight Club had a fair amount of that too, but...)

Absolutely. I thought Midnight Mass started off really well but it really caused frustration for me in the final episodes—just one example, the entire town is literally going to shit and when asked to help the Sheriff decides instead to tell the person instead a 10 minute monologue about all the difficulties he’s gone…

He’s had four shows on Netflix now. I know many fans skipped The Midnight Club because of its older teen cast and YA source material (though as someone who devoured the ridiculous Christopher Pike books in the early 90s I appreciated how he dove right into how fucked up weird they were yet gave them all more heart)…

The animated Extraordinary Tales is indeed a mixed bag, but as is mentioned in this list, well worth seeing.

However, my fave animated Poe is one that made a huge impression on me when I was about ten and just getting into the history of animated shorts. During a brief period (maybe 5 years really) of the early 50s,…

Yeah Sierra sorta developed a bad rep (especially compared to LucasArts) but they were my obsession as a kid and teen in the 90s and still take up some real estate in my brain--and Space Quest was my fave of the comedy ones (though y fave games were probably the Laura Bow ones and then, a bit later, the genius Jane…

It did at least get a mention in the Monkey Island 2 slide.

They actually pitched, and almost went through with, a comic soap opera spin off around Calliope. 

Came here to say just that.  I wouldn’t put Big Fish or even Sweeney (despite, or maybe because, I’ve been a huge Sondheim fanatic for thirty years) in the top 5, but probably right after that and CERTAINLY above Dark Shadows and the mess that is Alice.  And of course the descriptions given here don’t explain at all…

Right, I forgot about the Alien movie element (and of course they DID have an Alien, the movie, sequence in The Great Movie Ride which harkens back to when that park was Disney-MGM Studios, which I still always want to call it.) I’m really sad I missed Alien Encounter (living in BC Canada, I only ever went to Disney…

Yep.  When something is so obvious as a character being based on a character in the ride... it’s not an Easter egg.

To me it feels quintessentially Disney--but maybe more old school Disney (certainly some of the original concepts were far darker--as is the Paris version.)  Of course, not too long ago Disney did make the Alien Encounter attraction (which didn’t last long) which DID seem thoroughly un-Disney.

Thanks for that article. It explains a lot, actually.

I guess I was just thinking about how long end credits can be when I was watching Nimona on Netflix where they are 14 minutes long (and that doesn’t count the extra minutes for the Netflix translation teams at the end.) No post credit or mid credit sequence really…

Because soap viewers are largely creatures of habit. Even with people now watching online, or almost all on DVR at night after work, or whatever, much of the appeal of the shows is they’re a constant in your life (after all a lot of the watchers still out there grew up watching with their grandparents or mothers, and…