And that he asked viewers to spend six hours watching the backstory of how a person becomes corrupted where the definition of evil never got much more complex/compelling than "just turned evil."

"Nooooooooooooooo"

Leo saw the mosquito-man as a stereotypical Middle Eastern sleazy shopkeeper. The character could easily be interpreted as Jewish or Arabic; basically, someone with a Semitic language pattern speaking in broken English.

What's so sad and true about what you posted is that, when TPM came out, we all howled at how terrible it was. And it was truly terrible.

Why not compare the level of talent?

That Aaron Freeman album is oddly sweet, actually . . .

Jonze is good, just a little lost right now. He'll be alright.

No . . . MacDonald is not in the same class as Vidal and "The Baffler." That's just wrong in so many ways. Well-intentioned, but very, very, deeply and disturbingly wrong.

There's an essential problem here; forgetting that movies now are terrible hodgepodges written by hacks for teenagers (and unfortunately not for smart teenagers.) I'd love to see the old Carpenter "They Live" re-made. But you know any remake would leave out the social commentary of the original, because movies now are…

I just watched it again for the second time and in neither case was I sober. Get all my s**t done, crack 'em open, watch some VB. Not the worst way to end two days.

And then Jonas Sr. showing up at the end and he's not really Jonas Sr.

Too bad it wasn't a well-built English black man saying "well get on with it motherf—-" before a quick cutaway.

I totally remembered that line when the bread slicing came up here!

"Of course you need to slap them around every now and then when they insist on having the last word."

That should be the finale of the show. A full two-hour musical.

So, in the "baccarat's a dead giveaway, only spies play it" joke when a Roger Moore type says "shaken, not stirred" — there's a clear George Lazenby, too. Who's the thin guy supposed to be? Looks wrong for Dalton or Brosnan.

Good point. Maybe he wasn't around as he's essentially a stand-in for Doc Hammer and the episode was about rebooting the show a little. He'll be back.

It really looked great. The tones on the space station were fantastic. Like the bad-guy lair in "The Incredibles."

True 'dis. The best things about the show were the good guest actors in well-written single-episode stories. The ongoing conspiracy plot just got worse and worse, as if the show runners kept trying to dig themselves out of a hole.

Great "South Park" choice. I forgot that episode was so old, it holds up brilliantly.