My hope is that it’s worth it just to shut the people up who say “Mel Brooks could never get away with doing THAT now.”

Low expectations is a good way to go into many things, especially when the potential sunk cost of a single episode is fairly small.

Well, it certainly appears that an awful lot of people were willing it give it a shot.

I’ll have to check that out.

Not directly related, but if you have never listened to the “Fiasco” episode of This American Life, I highly recommend it, and I think the actual producers of “Spiderman: Bring on the Dark” would have benefitted from hearing it. The opening story covers an absolutely insane small town production of Peter Pan that goes…

Yes, this. The bigger and more bizarre the lie, the less likely someone is to question it.

Lies like his are considered serious enough that he would lose tenure if he were on the faculty of a University somewhere (which perhaps he says he is, I don’t know), and yet they are not considered serious enough to get him drummed out of Congress. Makes one think.

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I mentioned on another thread that my mom hates Fonda, but this is a movie she still might enjoy. “Old ladies plotting a murder to settle a long-standing grudge” sounds very much in her wheelhouse.

I feel it works well as a metaphor for the loss of athletic ability with age, particularly for elite athletes. Sure, some people can keep performing at the elite level for a decade, maybe two, but everyone is going to decline eventually, and what are they then? The idea that you reach your peak in your teens or early…

There’s actually another reason my mom would not like this. She likes stuff like Game of Thrones and documentaries about grisly murders. If the old ladies were assassins or something, OK, but adorable elderly football fans? Meh.

To summarize, not all moms are alike. Some will like this movie and others won’t.

I love that movie.

It is the latter, and it’s something of a tragedy when you lose it. Works well both literally and as metaphor.

Finished this last night. Worth a watch for the soundtrack alone. Bauhaus, The Cure, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, This Mortal Coil (!), and the Associates (!!!). The show is set more or less in present day, but somehow all of the music is from the early 80s.

My father is a Vietnam veteran, and he has no problem with Jane Fonda. Only my mom has a problem. They are divorced, BTW.

Yes, she had a pretty big role in this, and it’s considered a classic. It was nominated for best picture (along with ) the year the The Godfather Part II won.

My mom (still, at 80 years old) hates Jane Fonda with fiery passion. She will not like this.

I am amused by the “thriller with elements of horror” thing. Exactly how many horror “elements” does a movie have to have before someone is allowed to call it horror? Why is it necessary to definitively categorize movies as one or the other? Surely horror is in the eye of the viewer.

Well, it’s on TV, so one can always bail if it’s not funny. The stakes are pretty low.