Although I liked that the subway tunnels have the actual red hexagonal tiles that the actual DC metro has.

It’s because Bethesda, as you’d guess from the name, is local to the area (although it is now located in Rockville, where I live, rather than Bethesda itself). I doubt a non-DC area studio would bother putting in places like Olney as they did.

But I want to know the favorite films of Kyle’s Paul Atreides, even though presumably most of them haven’t been filmed yet.

And Francis Ford Coppola’s production company is named “American Zoetrope”, after a 19th century device for showing moving pictures that was made obsolete by movies.

What about an eccentric guy working at a Disney Park? As Disney employees are termed “cast members”, you could say “that cast member is a real character”.

What, people don’t shower after gym class anymore? So they are just sweaty and stinky the whole rest of the day? When did this happen? I get that AV Clubs probably began fading out in the late 1980s when finicky things like actual film movie projectors were replaced by simpler (from the user perspective) VCRs and the…

Do schools even have AV Clubs any more? Does GenZ even know what the name is even referring to?

It’s also dangerous for the worshiped goddess. Remember that Selena Quintanilla Perez (aka “Selena”, the Grammy winning pop-star) was murdered in 1995 by the literal leader of her own fan club.

I think they have to save some points for charisma, or how else did they get to be sexy babies? And if you are using a system that uses it, luck is probably also a useful stat. Intelligence and wisdom probably don’t need high scores.

Yeah, did you happen to see the Nick Cage version of Butcher’s Crossing (a novel that is often compared to Blood Merdian)? It had the events of the book mostly there but it just didn’t have the right tone.

Better the other way around.“Cluedo” is a stupid name and should be removed. Yes, I get that it is a pun on the stupid entirely random game “Ludo”, but why is that a plus?

She didn’t have access to the Jennings’ extensive collection of wigs and glasses.

What does “FX on Hulu” even mean? Yeah, I know it’s on Hulu, but what is this weird subbrand and why should we care? I mean, it would be like if McDonald’s had a section “Burger King in McDonald’s” that had sandwiches that weren’t actually available from Burger King.

I'm talking the 1980s mostly.

Back in the VHS days, it was often *years* before things became available on tape. But that was also when in between the theater and video, there was also the premium cable showings -- HBO and Showtime used to mostly show movies that were out of the theater but new enough that they weren’t on video. And some people…

France has a lot of laws like that. Another one is that books ordered online can’t have free shipping (even if other goods can). The argument is that helps protect indie bookstores against Amazon. 

You are forgetting 1997's The Rainmaker, which was a perfectly decent John Grisham adaptation, as good if not better than The Firm or The Pelican Brief.

Coppola should have included Ghoulardi, a competing 1950s horror-host, except that would have pissed off Paul Thomas Anderson as Ghoulardi’s actor was his father Eddie Anderson.

See, I was hoping this was about an actual gross chemistry test -- like a practical lab exam where she had to synthesize mercaptans or other unpleasant molecules.

“Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives.”