I agree totally and said so also about Harold.  It seems like a big mistake to already spoil that Harold is a bad person still in the future.  His entire arc was whether he would turn out good or evil. It kind of just reveals the whole thing in the first episode for a not needed episode ending.

Damaged people are more interesting. It is fiction. This isn’t a rah rah book. The plot is mostly driven by exactly the kind of troubled people that Harold is. The “good people” are mostly reactive in the book, and I think in most of these kinds of stories as well. You really cannot change this or the plot loses all…

Pratchett’s writing is kind of unfilmable, like Heller’s Catch 22, or Adam’s Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy.  The problem I think is there is a difference in translating written comedy to the screen.  It just loses something.  Unlike movies and TV where the comedy is written for the screen, funny books are written to…

There is a classic SNL skit with Geena Davis and Jon Lovitz where he plays the last guy on Earth with the last woman after a meteor hits and he still cannot get laid and she tells him she wants to be friends..haha. Laudner as a character is that guy

I really want to watch this. I might cave and sign up for CBS streaming, even though I think it is so crappy that a network that makes billions in ad revenue and has an actual network already is charging people extra for their “good” programming. Like , put these shows on your actual network and make your money the…

Yeah, agree. The entire plot of the book is exactly that. The few people left basically choose between heaven and hell for a final Armageddon battle. If you mess with that basic plot, you basically have every adaption of “I am Legend” where they destroy the entire point, then wonder why it didn’t work.  

Most of them do not. Fahrenheit had some people verbally memorizing stories, which I guess is something, but they could not change the society and could not bring it down.  I think I mean to say where there is some kind of organized rebellion, that is where it goes off the rails, because as I said, then it is just…

meh, it is my opinion

I agree the last episode was tidy..but sometimes an old fashioned “Rocky” story is what is needed. And I do know about the “magical black person” trope, but considering all of her friends were like that and they wanted to have some POC in it, I think you have to let it slide, as where else would you put them?  They…

I get that criticism with The Queen’s Gambit..it was almost a little old fashioned in its story beats. There was nothing all that wild in it, there was very little sex, no violence or nudity. It just told a good story very well. It honestly could have come out 20 or 30 years ago and no one would have batted an eye. it…

For me The Queen’s Gambit was hands down the best show of the year. It is like “Rocky” but with chess. Good Lord Bird was second. Better Call Saul is probably the best regular series, and will be until done. The last of prestige TV.

I think you are right, but it is even worse with “dystopia” fiction. Brave New World on Peacock also suffered because of this. The entire point of a dystopian novel is there is no hope. It is making a point. But how do you make a series where the whole point is there is no hope and everyone is screwed? “The Colony” on…

When a studio releases a statement this vague, it basically means “we did nothing because nothing happened (or whatever happened was so minor that we are not going to trash our director publicly), but do not want one of the actors talking crap about us all over the place, so we will phrase this like he won something…

Yes, once this how ran out of book material, it made Game of Thrones doing the same look fantastic in comparison. It is like they had no idea what to do

I think this is an unfortunate effect of peak TV with so many options. Channels or platforms either have to cancel shows right away like netflix does, or like Showtime, AMC (now) the CW and Hulu, they keep any show on that has any name recognition forever. Back in the day with less places to go with original content,…

This show is terrible.  It was okay in the first season, then plunged off a cliff.  Hulu must be really desperate to keep renewing this when the critics hate it.

This show fits one of the classic reasons shows go downhill in that old “jump the shark” site. It lost its main character. Fiona was basically irreplaceable, and they have tried to go on with a series where that was impossible. This is not the walking dead where some diehhards will watch because of zombies, this show…

no, no it wasn’t

HBO only pays usually 20% of what a movies box office was for the rights. So what are they paying when it is zero or near zero? Not very much. Wonder Woman is going to lose 200 million dollars. And theaters? Tenet made only 300 million worldwide, like a quarter of what it normally would. Who is going to theaters…

There will never be another Anthony Bourdain. His life experience was completely unique. A well respected chef, a person who struggled with substance abuse, a surprisingly good author, a willingness to get drunk and take part in some truly bizarre things that never came off as contrived or condescending to the people…