Reread Ghost Story recently. A truly brilliant book - an incredibly effective ghost story that’s also about the art of telling ghost stories. The movie is not great. It would make a wonderful limited series. 

Was just watching him in Waxwork over the weekend and thinking about how delightful it always is to see him on screen.

The list of inductees is just bizarre. They still haven’t inducted huge stars from the 70s and 80s. Like, Reba didn’t get inducted until 2011. 

Or Girl Meets World, which was actually a pretty solid show. 

It’s an unusually clunky beginning for a Christie novel. You could essentially cover everything that happens in a few lines of dialogue (rich woman stole poor friend’s lover) and start the book with their honeymoon. 

Disney's Pinocchio is obviously a masterpiece but it's not remotely a faithful adaptation of the book, so I would be interested in seeing a much different take. 

According to The Guardian, the other skier was not hospitalized.

R.I.P. He was great in It's Only the End of the World.

Does Dexter actually love Harrison or is that the story he’s sold himself because he wants to believe he’s capable of love? Hall’s performance seemed to play around with both possibilities until that final letter, which seemed far too eager to answer the question. 

Please don't turn them into serial killer Batman and Robin. That would be another ridiculous evasion of Dexter answering for any of his choices. 

When they give Mandip Gill a chance to actually play emotional beats it unfortunately makes it clear how much potential they have wasted by giving her almost nothing to do. 

All of the major cast members are now gone. A few recurring actors like John Amos are still with us.

As I unfortunately had to say about Cloris Leachman at the beginning of the year: The Mary Tyler Moore Show is probably the greatest cast in TV history and she was a priceless part of that. Asner and MacLeod, too. 

Brown is easily the best big bad a Dexter season has had since Lithgow. His weird, genuine “if only I didn’t have to kill you" vibes were oddly moving. And Alcott played against him very well, especially in that table scene, dropping the hostility and angst and showing how lonely he is. Admittedly, the whole Dexter in…

Saw Resurrections and Encanto. Resurrections mostly made me want to see Reeves and Moss in a straight up romance - those two might actually have more chemistry now than in the original trilogy. Encanto is delightful. The songs are catchy, the animation is colorful and beautiful, and it commits Disney heresy by…

“My dad had a heart attack and died my senior year. I've never mentioned it before because it was traumatic. Fortunately, soon after my dad's old friend [insert well liked comedic actor in his 50s] moved in." 

This episode was a weird mixed bag, where the emotional beats mostly worked for me - Kurt’s statement and flashback, the podcaster’s moment of human sympathy, the chief’s regret, Harrison admitting that he remembers everything - but the plot points made no sense. How did he jump from the incinerator to Dexter being…

The Harrison/Dexter scenes and the Dark Kurt scenes are so much more interesting (and, frankly, better acted) than everything else around them. I don't care about the podcast stuff, the sheriff's suspicions, Harrison's teen romance.

Loved her books when I was a teenager and undergrad. The later Vampire Chronicles books are some of the most enjoyably bonkers bestsellers ever. 

The Lost Boys are also weird because one of Spielberg’s great strengths is getting good performances out of young actors but the Lost Boys’ acting is terrible. He seems so uncomfortable with the tone of those scenes.