I think the explosion in the number of scripted TV series makes it really hard for voters to keep up. I like to think I’m pretty plugged into culture but a number of those shows you mentioned I have heard of but can’t recall ever having seen a recap or review or seen people talking about it online or in person. I…

I keep seeing this show billed as a thriller, but we’re 2/3 of the way through it and I honestly have trouble paying attention for more than like 5 minutes at a time. The pacing is bizarre, the action is rote, the performances are flat, and the writing keeps flirting with interesting ideas before deciding instead to…

I’m not sure if this article was written in bad faith or if the author just has poor reading comprehension. Peter Quill’s mom dying of cancer when was a child, at the very, very beginning of his story, is not a fridging. Maria Rambeau dying of cancer when she’s in her mid-50s is not a fridging. I think it’s a huge…

Paramount has always been a shitty custodian of Star Trek, so I’m really not surprised by this. The Star Trek franchise is like a copper mine that reliably churns out a profit for its owners every year, and Paramount are the entitled mine owners who are bitter that copper isn’t worth as much as gold and constantly…

I think this is only the beginning of the bubble bursting for streaming services, this stuff with shows being cancelled in the middle of production or post-production and back catalogues being purged from the streaming archives. I think it’s inevitable that we’ll see some of these streamers go bust entirely - I find…

Zaslav is running WB like a private equity guy - cutting budgets to the bone to please activist investors who only care about goosing the stock price while destroying the long-term value of the company. Seriously, he’s done multiple things to alienate the talent, has watered down HBO’s brand by taking its name off its…

Makes sense. Between the WGA strike having no end in sight (I haven’t heard a word about the studios coming back to the table) and the likely SAG-AFTRA strike, we’re rapidly approaching the point where it will be difficult for any big budget movies that aren’t already most of the way through production to be released…

Steve Ditko justifiably gets a lot of the credit for laying the foundation that all things Spider-Man rest on to this day and he plotted and drew some all-time great Spider-Man stories in his relatively brief time on ASM, but for me that book doesn’t come into its own until John Romita joined and brought that romance…

The smart option when you see something that annoys you online (like, say, a review of your new book that left you mad at the reviewer) is always, always, always to just not post.

I look forward to the reveal that Red Skull fucked Peggy Carter back in the day and now their evil twin children are seeking revenge on Captain America. 

Putting aside the merits of killing off Ms. Marvel (whatever, it could’ve been done better and she’ll be back by October so there’s no reason to get that worked up by it), the current Spider-Man comics have been just putrid. It feels like the entire line is being edited and written by people who either fucking hate…

The $2 billion valuation also made me laugh out loud. Like there are clearly people on that writing staff who like and understand English soccer because there are plenty of times that they nail fun little details, but then there are also times where they have characters say things that are utterly baffling. Chelsea,…

I really appreciated that Jedi Survivor explicitly, repeatedly frames Cal’s experiences in the Clone Wars as having been a child soldier. Because that’s 100% what the Jedi were doing with their padawans and that experience would’ve scarred a lot of them for life even if the purge had not happened, but I’ve never seen…

It doesn’t really bother me that new Jedi who survived the purge keep showing up in the EU because a good story is more important than strict adherence to continuity, but it’s very clear that when the original trilogy was made there were meant to be zero Jedi survivors by the time of Return of the Jedi. Yoda…

It sucks for creators who are getting screwed out of residuals and it sucks for viewers who are attached to any of these, or who might have stumbled across them in the future and really enjoyed them, but my lukewarm take on this is that if a TV show or movie costs a streaming service more in residuals than it brings…

Cool idea, absolutely absurd price point. There is a pretty limited universe of people who (a) can afford to spend $6,000 on a two-day vacation, (b) want to spend that $6,000 for two days in Florida, and (c) are big Star Wars fans. 

Seems like Abdullah Saeed could have waited a second and sought clarification on Gilroy’s situation before he publicly accused him of being a traitor to the union. That is not how you do solidarity my man! 

Oh fuck you and fuck this website. I rarely get to watch the prestige Sunday night TV shows live because I have small children and have to be up early on Mondays, so I usually watch on Monday evening and avoid any recaps or reviews of the episode during the day. But here you are spoiling a main character’s death in a…

I know that Mel Gibson is a huge piece of shit and I have no interest in seeing him in new movies, but goddamn do the Lethal Weapon movies still do it for me.

Yeah my wife and I gave up on it in the middle of last season. I think Maisel developed the same problem as Gilmore Girls, which is that the main character increasingly comes across as a selfish narcissist but because that characterization seems unintentional on Sherman-Palladino’s part the show is never able to pivot…