Blowing the doors off bad teams does represent progress, though. They weren’t even doing that under Mourinho this season. It’s a low bar to clear for sure, but stomping the dregs of the league sure beats drawing 2-2 with them.

It really should have been two shorter, better movies or one very chopped down movie. It’s like a double album that doesn’t have enough meat to really fill out two whole discs, but has too much to trim down to one. It’s the Mellon Collie of movies.

I totally understand why the Avengers got the nod for 2012, but I’m a little bummed that I don’t get to read about TDKR, a movie that I like a whole lot despite (or because of?) its many flaws. It’s too long, the politics are muddled at best, and it feels like several different rough drafts mashed together, but the…

Agreed, although it helps that I turned into a hooting, whistling cartoon wolf the first time she’s shown in the leather Catwoman suit.

Good and fair point.

Popeplicity

I’m of the belief that Paulie sold them all out, which is why he’s the only one left.

Yeah, he died. I don’t care about whatever authorial intent Chase had, Tony died.

I know they never introduced the Horn of Winter in the show, but I really wanted to see the whole wall collapse, not just get melted some.

Doran’s plan in the books was to send his doofus failson over to Essos to woo Dany and marry her, which would then allow them to exact revenge on the Lannisters and re-take the throne.

The Dornish stuff was pretty stupid in the books, but at least Doran’s bird brained plan had some sort of potential payoff. The Sand Snakes’ plan was uh...vigilante justice with bad accents?

I watched the first Godfather for the first time on New Years Day, so don’t feel too bad.

The thought of Nicole Kidman listening to Kyuss is very funny, to me.

Your Peak Cruise question is really good. My knee-jerk reaction is to say 80s, since I kind of view Top Gun as the definitive Tom Cruise movie, but he did so much in the 90s (as with the 2000s and 2010s) it’s kind of hard to discount that decade.

A companion piece to Nathan Rabin’s magnum opus, Forgotbusters.

Best podcast about sunkin’ Phil Margera’s dick.

Elon Musk is Donald Trump for people with Funko Pop collections.

Clea Duvall is good on Veep.

EDIT: Penny Dreadful, duh.

Whatever happened to Josh Hartnett? Has he been in anything since 30 Days of Night?