Tveit is a legitimately good actor but this would be such an embarrassing fluke of a win given the circumstances. What a lousy position to put an individual performer in.

The Tonys are easily my favorite awards show but that’s largely because it’s always a big, splashy show with big, splashy performances from live performance experts. They seem particularly badly suited to the sort of socially distanced model they will understandably need to adopt for safety. 

Whittaker is very talented and she was a good piece of casting. There were flashes of what her Doctor could be this season - I thought she was very compelling when confronted with Jo Martin’s more aggressive Doctor the first time and when she told her companions they really didn’t know her - but the writing for 13 has…

Premature Burial is pretty dull. Ray Milland has no idea how to act a part clearly intended for Price. Hazel Court is fun in it, though (when isn’t Hazel Court fun?).

Young Oliver Reed as Aragorn in the early 60s? I'd watch it.

Ready or Not was great fun but Scream without Craven is just a hard sell for me. 

Talk of a new Rebecca adaptation led me to rewatch the miniseries version, where she was magnificent as Mrs. Danvers. 

I had the casting reversed in my head on who would be Rose and who would be Blanche. King as Dorothy? Makes total sense. 

Dev Patel is such an inspired choice for David Copperfield. He often specializes in optimists knocked about by life. I would have figured Whishaw for Steerforth. But the longer Dickens novels are so perfectly suited to the miniseries format that the movie versions have to feel like they’re just zooming through…

She was really good in her run on Medium, first seeming to be The Other Woman (a role she played a lot and very well) but turning out to have more mercenary motives.

The Dick Van Dyke Show is my favorite TV show ever. Still such a warm, funny, and sophisticated show. And that's only part of his legacy. Cheers to a well lived life.

I feel like William Castle would approve. 

The only thing that makes the Artemis Fowl books stand out from a million other "kid entangled with fantastic worlds" books is how much they commit to that precocious, mostly amoral, condescending, snide, and often physically cowardly little shit as a protagonist. Without that, what's the point?

The "world maintenance" line made me think of the classic 80s Twilight Zone reboot episode where the world is rebuilt from minute to minute. 

“Ryan Murphy’s Tales from the Crypt/ Tales from the Darkside/ Creepshow” sounds kind of promising. Every season of AHS suffers from wild tangents, dead ends, and excess subplots. One episode bites might be the perfect length to force them to focus.

Can he do it as Caesar from the Planet of the Apes movies? Mostly grunts, growls, and hoots with the occasional snarled word? 

Sadly, I know this song from the Spice Girls movie. 

Criss, Quinto, and Daddario all seem like decent casting choices for a live action Supes movie. 

I just loved seeing these characters again. Pretty much everything made me smile, though the only huge laughs I had were Jean-Ralphio’s commercial and Johnny Karate's message to kids. “Take care of your friends but take care of yourself, too” is a perfect Parks and Rec message. 

The songs and the caricature style animation are great. Otherwise it’s kind of OK. I think you could actually improve on it.