“Wtf? Ed in the anime is also cringe!”

I’d like to know the answer to this question as well. I haven’t made it through season 2 yet because it’s so underwhelming overall, but Parker Posey is really outstanding as a scenery-chewing villain, and the rest of the cast does the best they can with the blah material. It’s still far better than the original…

HOT TAKE: I can’t *stand* Ed. I loved the original Cowboy Bebop, but I loved it even more before Ed joined. The anime world’s cliched overly-expressive high-pitched squeaky whiny (typically female) character trope always bothered me. Sure, so Ed subverts that by being useful and by being a hacker... I guess? Who…

“The Survivor”? Really?

Love the coverage, and especially love the very well-thought-out criticism of Probst’s performative bullcrap that redirects the anger of conservative lunatics onto a player rather than himself as he tries to stir up controversy and get publicity and headlines. (That renews my nasty suspicion that someone in production…

At the end of season 1, they had already resoundingly answered the question of “can Mitch be redeemed?” with a resounding “no!” IMHO by revealing additional disgusting context to his abuse of co-workers, to the point that the writers basically tore the character a new arsehole. So reading that they’re going back to…

You’re definitely right about February, March, and April, but I think August and September have been split months for a while now and GOTG didn’t really do much to change that. GOTG was released on August 1, and as I recall, some other big or biggish movies have been released in early August. It’s the last two weeks…

Early August and late August are a lot different — in the last 10-15-ish years, as the calendar has gotten more crowded, July has effectively started to leak into early August (Guardians was Aug. 1), October has started to leak into late September, May has spread into April*, and March has spread prodigiously into…

To me, the real question is, why are they releasing this on Labor Day weekend? That’s usually when studios dump films. Did they decide to suspend that strategy because it’s such a weird year and they want to catch up, or what? They’re also not sending out screeners. Could it be a crappy flick?

This seems bizarre. I was surprised to find that the first two episodes of the new Perry Mason were really engrossing but then HBO(Max) and Roku got into their spat for a while so I dropped out of HBO-ville. Finally gonna catch the rest of S1 soon, but I’m bummed it’ll be a different creative team after that, even if…

Fair point -- I’ll keep digging into this to see if I can get more clarity.

Thanks for explaining — I am a clueless (cis straight) American and didn’t realize how Canadian all of this Jesse Singal stuff was. My knowledge of Canada is mostly limited to “the woods outside of Vancouver are every planet in every sci-fi show” and “mmmm, poutine”, but I think I understood at least *some* of that.

I’m not too clear on what Dan actually *did* other than defend this problematic Jesse Singal character. People on Twitter are going off on Dan for being transphobic without citing anything specific. Can anyone cite anything specific that *Dan* actually *said*?! I’m confused.

I noticed that Ii.

“Even The X-Files usually gave us some small flickers of connective tissue during monster-of-the-week outings.”

Sounds a lot like Ugly Americans in some ways. Is it a lot like Ugly Americans in some ways? If so, I’m sold.

“I was surprised to hear his show being described as a loss leader. That is an insult to Costco rotisserie chicken.”

That’s also my favorite part of this review, and now I want a whole article on this. I need to know more about the breadth and depth of the Russian language’s arsenal of profanity.

My father discovered Runaway Train as a VHS rental in the mid-80s and actually rented it several times to watch it repeatedly, something he NEVER did with any other movie. It made an impression on me as a kid. You probably have to be into that kind of grim-and-gritty Existential Dude Movie of the 80s, but it’s a great…

Ripping off “The Most Dangerous Game” was also big on action shows in the 80s (and possibly the 70s as well?). CBS’s Incredible Hulk did a surprisingly good one called “The Snare”. It’s definitely one of the best episodes of the show, which was largely disappointing overall but occasionally kicked out a fun episode. On…