Isaacs gives a better performance (he's genuinely threatening and weirdly self loathing) but Hoffman has his moments. 

A genuinely fascinating, iconoclastic guy who spent decades just pursuing whatever he found interesting and being enjoyably cranky at times. 

I didn't particularly enjoy either episode but Dee's dawning realization of how she could emotionally abuse her student was pretty funny. Dee will take whatever control she can.

Describing each successfully completed scene as a “stay of execution” . . . That just feels like an exhausting way to approach your work. 

The universe was basically wiped out, the Doctor committed triple genocide, the Doctor threw the Secret Origins of her character and thus the series as a whole down a tube, and the season’s least interesting side character didn’t get a date. Sure, these are equally important stories and should all be given the same…

Just infuriating behavior from him and the higher ups. I can't imagine having to relive these experiences in front of Congress. 

Dunst is an actress I have come to admire tremendously. She is bad in the third movie but no one could play the part they wrote her. “Your character has been publicly shamed for being bad at her dream job, your love interest is suddenly an unbearable jackass, and one of your oldest friends threatens you. Now be charmin…

Richard Donner personally told me to remake The Omen with an all Muppet cast (except for the Satanic nanny, who will be played by Imelda Staunton). Where's my money?

For me, rewatching the series after watching FWWM makes everything feel deeper and more tragic, making Laura much more of a person and making the emotional stakes clearer. (Although, yes, there are some continuity problems.)

“All is ending.” Jesus, that whole scene was so frustrating. It was just the worst kind of “we’re being mysteriously quirky and eventually all of this vague hinting will make sense.” The Vinder stuff worked but that was about it. This just feels like they’re piling up stuff in the hope that something will work. Nice…

One of those character actors like Ray Wise who instantly make me happy when I see them onscreen because they are always going to be fun whether the movie or show is brilliant or crap.

The whole approaching space menace opening gave me strong Star Trek: The Motion Picture vibes.

The War Games is ten episodes of "now let's go to another historic battle and do the same exact thing again." Just so tedious.

The Conners did an unexpectedly sweet Halloween episode where the kids go trick or treating in the house because the town’s Halloween activities are canceled due to Covid. Actually one of the better Covid sitcom episodes and a nice tribute to the original series' Halloween episode tradition. 

Happy Death Day 2 is just barely a thriller. It's more of a riff on time travel comedies. 

Get a Horse! Is probably the best Mickey Mouse short since the 40s (though I'm very fond of the recent Mickey shorts). Just a delirious rush of gags. 

I love Gillian Anderson. I even loved her actually kind of bizarre Thatcher in The Crown. She seems like a perfect fit for The Great.

King Kong "fared" well, though "faired" creates a delightful picture of Kong on a tilt-a-whirl.

It’s hard to tell what things aren’t going to work in adapting from one medium to another. Comics Yorick could be irritating and selfish and make stupid decisions but TV Yorick makes me want to throw something at the screen. Not a knock at the actor, who is playing him perfectly as written. The character is just so…

Among other reasons I am sad Christopher Plummer died, we lost the shorthand for “disgraced actor replaced with better actor.”