I like that this ending focussed on forgiveness. ‘Fargo’ tends to deal with the concept of justice in very retributive terms, which can make for good drama, but it’s not often that it gets into the kind of healing that needs to take place afterwards. Dot’s act of kindness towards Munch is such a moment of grace, and I…

I wonder what Munch was doing during COVID lockdowns?

It’s very easy to take what Munch says seriously, because he speaks in absolutes. (“A man does this, a man does that.”) But there’s no reason to suspect he’s right about everything. He was born 500 years ago, he has a mindset for a very different time.

Also loved Lorraine’s bit tonight: “This has nothing to do with that book. This is from an older time, written on stone tablets in the age of the skull-fuckers.”

He may not have been a villain in the traditional sense in ‘Mad Men’, but Don Draper had his moments.

Yeah, that was a bummer. I thought Morris was great in the time he did get, and he deserved either a larger role to make his death hit harder, or to survive. (I agree with the review; having Dot call him “my trooper” was so pure and so sad.)

The real Ole Munch was inside us all along.

My mum’s a nurse and always said if you wanted to kill someone with a knife (not sure why she was giving this advice, but hey), slice the femoral artery, which is in the leg. They’ll be dead in seconds, plus people aren’t as quick to block a hit to the leg as they would be to the upper body.

“Hey everyone, there’s a spaceship in the sky ... again.”

For the first three seasons, I noticed a kind of steady decline in the moral outcomes of the narrative: first season good pretty solidly triumphs over evil with Malvo and Lester both facing judgement, the second season having some of the antagonists being punished and some escaping free and easy, and the third leaving…

“Oh, did I mention that this guy’s mother sleeps in his closet?”

I also just looked it up. My expectations for a show called ‘90 Day Fiancé’ were already pretty damn low, but the actual premise managed to limbo right under them.

Now we just need to turn ‘The Beekeeper’ into a musical and turn that musical into a movie.

With ‘Madame Web’ coming out in February, it’s hard to imagine ‘The Beekeeper’ will hold onto that “worst of 2024" title for long.

To clarify, Chase is not against pulpy TV. He likes the kind with some pulp. Just not this much.

In keeping with the meta-textual twist of this franchise, the film could centre around a bad guy who hires someone to wear the Ghostface mask and start a new wave of killings to drum up interest in some movie/book/podcast, but that person turns on them when the payment turns out to be much less than promised.

The big twist is we find out the Xenomorph originated in the deadliest place in the universe: rural Minnesota.

I was okay with that, the explanation being (if I remember correctly) that the galaxy went from an era of lovingly crafted ships with high aesthetic values to mass-produced, industrialised ships cranked out as quickly as possible. To me it doesn’t seem much different to the shift from the beautiful automobiles of…

“It’s been a decade since Russell had anything even resembling a hit in either the critical or commercial sense”.

Or, considering we just went through two entertainment industry strikes partly fighting against devaluing the work of creatives via technology, we could not do that.