Characters in TWD don’t have pasts. They have origin stories, typically about one sentence long.

I got like two or three episodes in. I don’t know if it was me, or the show, or the news about Tambor dropping around then, but I found it shockingly bad. Like, even season 4 was pretty entertaining, if a bit less consistent than the original run. The new season just felt like a dull re-hash with weak chemistry…

I was sure for a good fifteen seconds that it was a dream sequence with Glenn still alive. 

Ugh. B- feels pretty generous. Watched the first one and was decidedly unimpressed and uncomfortable. I didn’t think Greg and Hajar had any chemistry or sexual tension at all - to the point where I was unsure whether their hookup was supposed to seem passionate or rapey. I got much more of a manipulation/assault vibe…

I tend to blame the writing (especially dialogue) over the acting, but either way, it makes the characters feel really flat and difficult to invest in. That’s the main problem IMO. Combine it with a weirdly vague plot and it fails to really do anything noteworthy. 

This show is as turgid and dull as they come, but I thought these were pretty thoughtful responses by the actors.

What the fuck, he’s the longest tenured member? I feel so goddamn old. I remember him getting hired, vaguely - I never have been much of an SNL watcher, but in my head he was still kind of a “new guy”. I still mostly associate him with All That.

Yeah, Korra herself was fantastic, and at least some of its antagonists were strong (let’s pretend season 2 never existed), but the Gang 2.0 was pretty dull for the most part. They really never figured out what to do with any of them post season 1 - too many inconsequential, self-contained subplots, and to some extent…

Smash cut to Roger with the paddle ball (which is in itself one of my favorite tiny Mad Men jokes)

“Laika, the first woman in space” might be my favorite blink-and-you’ll miss it joke this season. Inspired application of BoJack’s absurd anthropomorphic reality. Also potentially pretty dark but thankfully it seems they fudged the details a bit. Check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

I’m in somewhat of a similar boat. I love this show while watching it, but for some reason I can never remember what happened in past seasons like, at all. Typically I’m really good at remembering plot details but Better Call Saul makes it tough for some reason.

Pretty strange premiere, in a way I think it was intended to. I get that it was mostly meta jokes about Glenn/Dennis and the struggles of writing around that, but it was like the shackles fell off as soon as the Gang decided to get shots in the strip club - it instantly restored my confidence that the old rhythm is…

Plus, they do cliffhangers/episode endings in general better than almost any show I’ve ever seen. Once you start it’s hard to not just blitz through. 

His true calling would be running a clickbait YouTube channel/Instagram/Twitter trifecta.

The Walking Dead stuff at least teases a modestly different setup than usual. Remains to be seen whether internal, pseudo-civil war type conflict will make good TV, and/or whether this staff can write a compelling a version of it, but hey, better than the “meet new group, oh wait they’re evil, it wrong to kill them, ra…

Frustrating is right on. This show is full of powerful moments, but really struggles to hold together when you look at the big picture. It’s kind of difficult to discern what the central arc(s) of this season was - June’s decision to stay and fight? I’m still not really sure what lead her to that. Yes, we’ve seen her…

Totally agree. This season has had a number of affecting moments, sequences, images, and features some truly stellar acting (though not across the board), but structurally it’s largely a mess.

Not yet. I really hope we do, though - we knew even before the flashbacks what Serena did “before” (at least I think we did, might just be having read the book previously), but Lydia is kind of a cipher. It’s worked because Ann Dowd is such a damn good actress that can insert some humanity into what could easily be a…

Hot take: It was a pretty good movie (best since the OT, though I liked Force Awakens far more than most) that was one more edit away from being incredible. Just a few things here and there that could have cleaned it up a little bit, made a few things hit harder, clarified a couple arcs.

Hey, Andy Serkis will be available since they killed off Snoke!