I’d love a fourth season, but it seems unlikely given that the ratings for Showtime were miserable. Of course I realize you can’t surmise very much from live ratings these days given that a lot of people were probably not watching on linear TV, but they can give you a rough idea of a ratings “floor” that a show is…

Agreed, and this is why I haven’t read much by King. The first quarter of “The Stand” is SO engrossing and intense, and then it all ends with this splat.

That Time Magazine review is absolutely scathing. If it’s accurate, this sounds exactly like what America does NOT need right now, and something that all sorts of quasi-incel types will really dig, so... yeah... yikes. And Zacharek is a well-regarded critic whom I’m inclined to trust.

For the most part, in terms of writing as well as production values, I’d say Farscape holds up and is still a lot of fun. Season 1 doesn’t get really good until roughly episode 15 or 16, but OTOH, unlike with ST: TNG or DS9, there are very few egregiously bad season-one episodes you need to skip. Just skip “Thank God…

Someday I’ll have to get around to watching those episodes. The Drew Carey Show was in an extremely strange situation because it was one of the most ill-timed renewals in the history of TV. It was very successful... until right around the time that ABC renewed it for *two* seasons, when (if I recall correctly) the…

The first episode is truly one of the most godawful things I’ve ever watched. What moron at Netflix gave this absolute freakin’ rubbish the green light? Has *anything* else original from Netflix *ever* been this bad? (Admittedly, I’ve never seen Hemlock Grove. That has a pretty bad reputation.) This is appalling. Poor …

If you’re watching on Netflix, it should be easy enough to set the language to German [Original] and the subtitles to English, which is what I did. The dubbing was just awful. The only thing you should ever watch dubbed is Miyazaki’s animated films. That’s pretty much it.

Most Kubrick movies. Hot take: In most of them it’s clear Kubrick loathes humanity. Everything that the amazing critic Pauline Kael said about 2001: A Space Odyssey in her (in)famous trashing of it is absolutely true (google that review, it’s easy to find). The human characters are so boring that you’re tempted to…

Isn’t this show set in Indiana? So this is actually realistic — very few people would have been up to date with the absolute latest fashions. It’s much more realistic for a show set in 1985 to have people sporting 1983 or 1981 looks that are a little out of date, just like anything set in the early 70s should have a…

Am I the only person who didn’t like large chunks of the original Utopia? I was probably just decidedly not the audience for that kind of thing since I hate Grand All-Encompassing Conspiracies. Especially ones where (if I recall correctly — my memory’s not perfect) the conspirators and their henchmen are bumbling…

That 80s revival of TZ doesn’t get enough credit. (That is, if my childhood memories of it are accurate.) Some of those segments were only 5 or 10 minutes long and were really effective because they got right to the point. Other longer segments would fill out the hour-long slot. The show was inconsistent quality-wise…

For the most part, yeah, it was a sad and pathetic excuse for a DW season, but “It Takes You Away” was great, “Demons of the Punjab” was emotionally affecting and solid (but would’ve been even better if a lot of similar concepts and themes hadn’t also popped up in other recent episodes), and “Witchfinders” had its…

I’ve been puzzling over the ending of that one for about 30 years now.

YES! This is a great show.

Hey, I live in this terrible jerk’s state Senate district too! I knocked on a lot of doors and handed out flyers trying to help Blake Morris win in the primary. No dice. There are way more DINOs in the Orthodox parts of the district than I realized.

Right from the beginning, when I heard this show was from Millar and Gough, the dingbat producers of Smallville, I knew it was going to be a huge waste of time with no point to its storytelling, so I avoided it for a while. But then it showed up on Netflix and I gave it a chance anyway. The writing in S1 was often…

Great point. But hasn’t Terminator 2 held up pretty dang well, all things considered? I feel like the Mona Lisa is so artistically old-hat at this point that Metropolis might be a better comparison. Or maybe Forbidden Planet? [slaps self in a futile attempt to switch off Pedantic Mode]

I was on my way here just to make precisely this reference but you beat me to it so thoroughly that you must have a TARDIS.

Next Hollywood will be handing him a We Forgive You award. Bad Hollywood! No donut! No Forgivie award!

Given that BBC America is kind of pathetic (what have they got besides this and Doctor Who?), I wonder if this is a harbinger that BBC Studios (which owns 50.1% of BBC America, while AMC Networks owns the other 49.9%) will give up on BBC America soon. Surely a huge percentage of the people who watched Killing Eve saw…