Where last year’s Good Omens inelegantly translated Pratchett’s light and sardonic prose to the screen by having Frances McDormand literally read the novel to the audience

YES. Here’s a few of the old movies I watched for the first time this year, with my snap judgments for each:

I’m glad to hear Lauder’s a significant focus of the mini-series. I’ve always found him to be an utterly fascinating character, one of King’s best villains (to the extent he even qualifies as a “villain”). The review calls him a proto-incel, and that’s right on, and it really speaks well of King that he was able to…

Will they emerge, as they did in the ’94 miniseries, as avatars of simplistic, reductive notions of good and bad?

I enjoyed the heck out of the Queen’s Gambit. I spent the first few eps terrified that it was gonna take a weird orphanage/sex abuse turn, and once it was clear that it wouldn’t, it really took off. BUT... the last ep was just a little too tidy, wasn’t it? Like EVERY single person from her life shows up to help her,…

Because he was always real. He was himself and unapologetically so. Flaws and all. Honesty resonates. His very real feelings -good and bad- cut through everything going on. The only person he seemed to judge harshly (other than the incompetent and powerful) was himself.

Its almost like it had some first class source material for the first season and then writers Way less talented than Atwood had to start pulling things from various body openings from Season2 onward...

I’m always skeptical of turning single novels- which are generally self-contained stories with a clear beginning, middle, and end- into TV shows of indefinite length. Like it’s worked some times, I’m sure, it depends on how much freedom you have, but generally speaking the elements you’re working with were meant for a…

Yep. Moss’s character’s plot armor puts late season Game of Thrones to shame.

I don’t think Hulu has many hit shows. That does make me wonder if, given enough time, they’ll eventually take Showtime’s crown for renewing shows well past the point it made sense.

I thought the first season was great, the second season was OK...then it immediately shit the bed. I got halfway through S03 where the entire episode was literally just close-up shots of Elisabeth Moss staring into the camera while ironic 80's music played in the background.

“Following hundreds of hours interviews and extensive research, we have concluded that Joss Whedon repeatedly and maliciously flouted the ‘one Rice Krispies treat per customer’ rule and as a result we have charged his Warner Brothers commissary account an additional $46.17. No further remedial action will be taken at…

I wish Ray Fisher (The metal guy. No, the one on the right without a spear. No, that is Gal Gadot... more to the right) the very best in his chosen career. Because I don’t foresee a lot of film work in his future.

Pirates ruined him. Deciding he was going to play the role as a gay Keith Richards made for a surprisingly good outcome, but he never went back to playing a normal human again.

I was thinking more of this:

At least 45 people, apparently

If we’re talking just acting and not his personal life...Johnny Depp doesn’t act anymore. He does schtick. The make-up, the voices, the weird tics, it’s a series of quirks that occasionally break out into a performance. It’s one step above anything Adam Sandler does, except I know the goal of any Adam Sandler…

If anybody needed evidence of how important Emmy Rossum was to this series, just watch the last season and this episode.

Based on past seasons, some of you are here because you gave up watching but want to witness my descent into madness