Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t call him any kind of hero, anti or otherwise, but my personal history with health insurance companies lets me understand the desire to do bad things.

My brain is full of long rambling thoughts about spirit guides and self-discovery and life ruts and chosen families and a million other things this show handles expertly and none of those thoughts would do justice to anything that’s been on screen, so I’m just going to shut up and wonder what we did to deserve such a…

What I would kinda love is a Fargo-style 10 episode season anthology show in the TWD universe at different time periods like Tales had. I think the Terry/Olivia plot could have supported that with a little fleshing out, and probably the one with Anthony Edwards.

I don’t remember what show it was, but I remember Ice-T talking about the oversaturation of cop shows with spinoffs (primarily Law & Order and CSI) and he said “Just wait until we do Law & Order: CSI - then that’s a wrap.”

whose birth from a pregnant walker is considered by many to be a miracle.

Honestly, I would absolutely watch this show if they somehow got Lily Collins to do a zombie cameo.

If AMC asked me to make a Walking Dead spin off that could actually work (they wouldn’t, and shouldn’t) I’d go with an anthology premise. Give us mini stories, one episode at a time, starting in the first days.

Yes, love this show! Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer should be in everything together. Also loved No Activity, but this had more heart.

Greutert directed Saw VI, still the best of the sequels IMO precisely because it kinda has you rooting for Jigsaw to some degree vs. the evil insurance bureaucracy. Seems like this one is also going to lean into that idea, so I’m looking forward to that.

He pretty definitively died in Saw III (power saw to the neck) and was cut open for an autopsy in Saw IV, so unless he had a body double, he’s definitely dead.

That’s linebacker Ken Norton’s dad!

Ken Norton, the 49ers linebacker?

Perpetrator is going to be lit. Jennifer Reeder has a style and I feel like you either love it or hate it, but Knives and Skin was one of my favorite movies of 2019. Guess I have to throw Shudder onto the subscription pile.

There was talk of a TV series as recently as 2021, no idea where that stands (obviously nowhere now that the writer’s strike is on), but I’d like to throw a vote for LaKeith Stanfield as Easy if that ever gets going.

It’s funny, when I read the book, I pictured Dennis Haysbert, because I read it around the same time as the Tom Selleck movie Mr. Baseball came out (before the Denzel movie by a few years), and I just remember him being so much bigger than everyone else on the team, combined with his very authoritative voice.

I love Malcolm X and definitely can’t be mad it’s number one here. I am 100% with you on the King Kong speech in Training Day. A guy used to being able to talk, menace or charm his way out of anything and none of it’s working, so he’s trying them all at once. Just that whole sequence of yelling and smiling/laughing in…

Denzel just has so many amazing performances, even the movies that didn’t make this list are favorites for me - specifically, Fallen and The Book of Eli. But if we’re sticking to this list, Training Day would rank first for me, then Devil in a Blue Dress and Fences rounding out my top 3.

This might be the best laugh & cry show of all time.

New album-wise, this might be the best quarter of music of the year. And I hope the festivals end up streaming somewhere, lots of performances I’d like to see.

I feel like that might just be the Pending button being all janked up, but it is kinda nice to not have to read about “cancel culture” or “the woke left” or all the other varieties of insane screed that occasionally accidentally get promoted.