Whoever was making that newer adaptation needed someone to pull them aside and remind them that The Stand has a pretty simple narrative structure that depends heavily on the building momentum of the pandemic and collapse, and so doing a non-linear narrative structure that reveals all that right from the get-go sucks. 

The second attempt at The Stand was so much worse than the first (I could only complete watching the second episode). The fact they couldn’t even get the initial collapse of civilisation due to the plague was unforgivable. At least the 1994 version nailed the opening in one of the best introductions for anything in…

Guessing that any writer here also has forced far fewer female co-workers watch them jerk off under implied threat to careers.

sit down, kanye.

Luis (and Maria, Bob, Mr. Hooper etc.) were all so real to child me, it was many years later that it finally occurred to me they were actors, playing parts on a TV show.

Yeah, I’ve got this crazy thing called a “sense of narrative completion” and I really like it and want it in my reading material.

“... when there’s so much other content they could be getting excited for.”

Just admit you lost interest and aren’t going to finish the series. It would be less disappointing. Its never going to be done, its been more then a decade, I don’t even want it anymore.  Last two books kinda sucked and I have no reason to assume the quality of a finished book 6 would be worth the wait.  I used to be…

Farewell Dowd. You and basically everyone working at this site were so much better than J/O Media deserved.

I’m choosing to believe she’s playing the same character she did on Stumptown, despite a complete lack of supporting evidence.

I don’t know, but apparently they’ve doubled the budget for guys whose only job appears to be lifting boxes into the back of trucks. 

Do they still have scenes where they ask random bartenders if they’ve seen this woman, last Friday, on a night when over 500 people came through the bar, and said bartender immediately knows her and exactly what she did, wore, and who she met with?

Where is the goddamned Homicide: Life on the Street revival?

Incorrect. Me and the Mrs. are early 50s, and we love original recipe L&O, especially with Lenny.

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There’s been a ton of dirty cops on the show. District attorneys are rarer, since they very, very rarely had any other than the main three appear even in background cameos, but one of the first episodes with Jack as DA had him deal with a corrupt EADA. And while he isn’t corrupt (though he was brought up on corruption…

You know what halftime show doesn’t get enough credit? Katy Perry. I’m not a fan of that brand of pop, but as a purely bonkers spectacle, she really delivered. Everyone rightly remembers Left Shark, but let’s also not forget her entering the field on a giant mechanical lion, and then ending the show flying around the…

I posted something similar above. Clips, fun host, a little music. They showed so few clips last year I wasn’t even sure what movies or actors they were talking about.