Why is Adam still there? There seemed to be an idea that he would provide some comic relief or at least a tie-in to the larger DC universe but that hasn’t really happened.

Oh god, Clark’s barn loft. How many endless scenes with Clark and Lana took place in that stupid loft? Jimmy and Chloe had their wedding in that barn for some bizarre reason.

Pretty much. It seems rotten to its core. Maybe the League of Shadows could take a time jaunt over from Gotham. It also has a whole predestination problem. We know Krypton is doomed. Kandor’s best hope is that it gets stuck in a bottle. It’s a bit of the same problem Gotham the TV show has always faced - we know…

It is amazing how little weight these plotlines have when they’re dealing with topics like inequality, fundamentalism, and terrorism. Frankly, I don’t think they have really established a reason why Krypton is worth saving except Superman. The actors are pretty good. The world looks fine. It’s just hard to care.

When did Gloria become such a cruel jerk? Did they have to spoil that nice Claire and Phil moment with bad slapstick? Cam and Mitch both grew up with sisters. Are they really that clueless about preteen girls?

How does one become a “certified handsome man”? Because honestly that sounds like a euphemism for a male escort. (Not to cast any aspersions on Mr. Bana, who is indeed a handsome fellow but who is not, as far as I know, involved in the escort professions.)

I recently reread “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” and decided that it would make the greatest, or at least the most spectacularly weird, epic fantasy movie ever. By the time we got to the rampaging armies of cats people would either love it or want to burn the theater down and that’s long before the truly weird…

Maybe watch it as a triple feature with Tusk and Horns.

Maybe we go with “Christopher Plummer’d” for being replaced due to a scandal and “Michael J. Fox’d” for being replaced due to original miscasting?

Have you seen Plummer’s abs recently? The dude uses being an 88 year old movie and theatrical legend as an excuse to skip work on his core. Some people commit.

You never pass the credit check? Most of these are basically pyramid schemes with massive layers of creepy on top.

I love the Gormenghast books but I think they’re always going to be a tough sell on TV. When you get down to that, there’s not much of a plot in a traditional sense except Steerpike’s machinations and while the books are nominally fantasy there’s not much particularly “fantastic” you can put your finger on. In a lot…

When the rest of them go to jail Graham will finally be in charge. Endless product placement monologues.

The first season treated an actual same sex attraction from a contestant with some sensitivity. This just felt gross and not only due to Quinn’s manipulations.

Why is either Jeremy or Chet still on this show? They only seem to have one plot which repeats itself.

I thought RP1 was fine. The trailers really did overstress the constant pop culture references, which are only really distracting in a few major action sequences. Weirdly I don’t even remember them hinting at the classic film the characters spend a whole sequence in. It reminds me of the marketing for Wreck It Ralph,…

Supposedly it hits Hulu on Monday, April 2nd. Apparently they livestreamed it for some packages.

I think they’ve been working on the staging problem, though they haven’t quite cracked it. None of them has looked worse than The Sound of Music, which felt like a stilted community theater production that somehow scored Audra McDonald and Christian Borle.

Blasphemer! Heretic! Heathen! How could you hate musicals?

The performances were mostly great. Legend is a wonderful singer but I’m not sure he really has the voice for this part. If you want to see a surprisingly great rendition of Herod’s song, go find Rik Mayall’s deliciously snarky version on YouTube. The sound mix on this, particularly at the beginning, was awful. I…