Making guns in entertainment less realistic would be doing the gun nuts a favor. There’s nothing they like more than having the chance to act like a superior blowhard showing off how much firearms knowledge and expertise they have.

Low level workers who probably have no training in security, diffusing conflict and handling aggressive customers. Security guards checking IDs at bars will know how to handle someone who thinks they can argue, shove or bum-rush their way in... Does an In N Out have anyone who’s really qualified to turn away someone…

Problem is she’s going to be so busy as CEO of Waystar/Royco she won’t have time for the things in life that really matter. But when dad gets sick at Christmas and she spends a few weeks back in her quaint hometown outside Lincoln she’ll meet a hunky handyman who inspires her to stay where she really belongs and open…

While sitting in the room named after “Money Heist” does anyone at Netflix ever wonder why they didn’t spent an extra five minutes coming up with a name better than “Money Heist?”

This is the the 2020s. Cable’s dead, it’s all about streaming. And the most promising new series on streaming are Seinfeld and Friends.

No Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. No Pulling. No Mighty Boosh. No This Time With Alan Patridge. No Look Around You. Do these people even watch British TV?

The Americans ought to be like, fifty. It’s a fun ride but that’s all. Deadwood should be top five, WTF is up with that? The Shield is top ten for me too but maybe it doesn’t appeal to UK sensibilities, I dunno. 

You should also consider this list is from the UK so it’s the metric system. You need to roughly triple the number then add a third to figure out where a show would be in the USA.

On the one hand The Wire fucked up its last season too (well, kinda, the stuff on the streets is great as ever but the fake serial killer and the newspaper stuff, oof). So I get the point. A weak last season doesn’t necessarily cancel the greatness that came before.

I wonder if the “stuff happens” attitude in these comments is reflecting how many of us work at home right now and forget what it’s like to work in an office? If I’m meeting a friend at a coffee shop and going home afterwards it would truly be no big deal if a server spiller coffee on me, but in 2018 when I was taking…

Frankly I’m getting sick of all of this anti-naysayer bias. Naysayers are people too and being told they’re wrong all the time can’t be good for their self-esteem.

Lucille Ball was a smart and cutthroat businesswoman who wasn’t afraid to battle with entertainment execs. I’m not anticipating Sorkin will put in the effort to get it right but the potential is there, if he doesn’t phone it in.

They’re “for” the world ending as soon as possible and are gleeful of any news that suggests an oncoming Rapture. For some reason this doesn’t tend to jibe well with concern for the well-being of future generations.

We only see the Europe-ish or possible New Zealandy part of Middle Earth. Surely there’s a Jamaica on the other side of the planet?

LOTR was huge in pop culture in the 70s so I’m sure there was lingering awareness. Probably a really niche nerd thing to actually read the books by the 90s but there’d be general knowledge of them and what a hobbit is, etc.

Where is the “caffeine” coming from? Are they dropping a No-Doz into a date seed and chicory root tea?

I re-watched the series last month and it reminded me how alienating the first episode actually was. It doesn’t feel like it was written to sell you on the show, like most pilots are. I understand why the AV Club and a lot of other reviewers slept on it because you kinda have to get through half the season before the…

I’m going to go on a limb and say Logan and or Siobh made the deliberate choice to choose a spelling that evokes a murder weapon instead of one that requires her to explain the pronunciation to every single American she meets.

Could be a gnome, or a halfling or one of them Nelwyns from Willow who’s in New Zealand on vacation. 

He probably would have been that one elf who’s crying all the time or something.