Sad lol—4 episodes is still a tight 4 hours compared to what Netflix does with its docs. Hulu’s offerings are in the genre tend to be one and dones from what I can see.

“at least for the remaining cineastes who care”

I’m fine with it. There’s a slight fannish pang in me about, wait, one of the characters I love is when you start being a little less conservative but whatever.

I was thinking of Killing Them Softly and maybe Tree of Life? But yeah, he’s such a movie star that he’s always playing off being some ideal of masculinity. He’s not going to do a turn like The Lobster or even Fright Night really.

Farrell’s been great in a lot of projects with so-so final execution. It’s kind of a thing. Brad Pitt’s carved out a space for character work, but he’s more straight on masculine, and Farrell’s like...Montegomery Clift?

Is Diggstown good? That’s the one I think of. I love it, but I’m not sure it’s good.

I ran across Seraphim Falls recently, with Neeson and Pierce Brosnan not playing Irish men, so I’ve already had my fill of not-much-to-it to westerns, so this is disappointing to read that it doesn’t build more from being set in Ireland. I bet it’s nice to hear what’s likely Neeson’s native accent though.

(That was one of the best episodes of What If…?, so it makes sense that it would be the high point for Disney+’s cartoons.)

I feel like recently all their posts have trended to maximalist enthusiasms. Even throwaway lines oversell (to me) the topics.

I guess between the gov’t funding, the campaigning for things for the nation, the campaigning to hide their wealth, the studiously non-politicalness is political. Or, you know, the con.

I guess so. Govt funded though and mostly symbolic, I figure they're political not pop? Oh well.

Nah, I’m not mad, just wondering. I guess it’s pop culture then, but royals feel more like political figures?

Why is this an AVClub topic?

Termites like chicken? That seems unlikely. I’ve only had grubs and crickets though.

Maybe they wanted to avoid a Superboy connotation? I remember reading that because Superboy as a character was created late enough that the credits were different, and so as to avoid paying out, Smallville had to be scrupulously young Superman at all times.

Has a lot of the Alien Isolation too.

Might be killing him off again?

I figure he also probably doesn’t start that way either.

Comparing different kinds of charisma aside, Road House’s zen-lite Dawson was a swerve in the typical stoic fighter route, and “I want you to be nice.” Replicating it would be hard, but ex-UFC guy is maybe the most uninteresting version possible.

I hate saying this, but I’m not very excited...the leads feel off to me. It’s George Miller, but it feels, kinda rote? I say this as a fan of all the Mad Max and Babe takes he’s made. This just feels thinner.