This article neglects to mention how terrible the show became in recent years, where the focus shifted from fashion to interpersonal drama and “challenges” that had nothing to do with making clothes. This season’s return to form (lol) has been remarkably refreshing and contains a lot more of the magic than the…

I kind of wish Caroline had written the review of Long Shot - I probably would have seen it a lot sooner. It was charming, hit the rom-com tropes but wasn’t bound to them, the leads had amazing chemistry, and it had a certain weirdness to it that most rom-coms don’t seem to have. 

Wasn’t Riverdale popular on the CW first? Did it gain popularity after its first season hit Netflix? I have no idea about the numbers at play; I just think that’s fascinating. I thought it was a pretty big hit right out of the gate.

Yep, gonna go listen to that right now.

What about Mayor McCoy?

Some of us are longtime Archie Comics nerds who just love the comic-booky dark nature of the whole thing! (Also FP is hot af.)

I think he said it was arbitrary in his last Age of Heroes column.

Yeah, Tom and Caroline swapping columns has long made for an awesome biweekly delve into movies. I’m very curious as to what might happen when the top grosser of the year is either a superhero or action movie Tom’s already covered, or a romcom Caroline’s covered. I’ve done no research.

Like it’ll take days.

I *do* remember such realistic, hard-biting fare as Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers and I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Back to the Future and Superman and Ghostbusters and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Matrix. Why can’t the world of cinema be more like THAT again!?

I loved this take and everything about Black Panther, but I think the best part of this is my anticipation of your new column.

Eventually you’ll realize that Tilly is the best character on the show and on television.

We are ALWAYS shipping Bashir/O’Brien.

Wasn’t she in the Bourne movies? She was great in those!

As the then gay best friend to a woman really into romcoms, I saw this the day it came out. It’s the reason why I kept seeing romcoms with her, even though none of them had ever panned out as well as this one. (Hitch came close, but that one scene in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days when they go to the island and every…

Weird brag: I used to see Esposito do improv in Cambridge, MA back in the distant day. Once, she did a whole improvised film of Eleanor Roosevelt as a badass assassin who took out Nazis on the top of a moving train. She’s ALWAYS been amazing.

Like, Logan is a violent, angry superhero film with lots of blood, in which innocents are slaughtered for being good Samaritans, where heroes have to make impossible, dark choices and also, actually, for-real die ... and none of it’s a slog or a grimdark chore to watch. Zack Snyder’s basic template CAN be sound, but…

Same. I was reading the list and, even though I’d seen all of them, I thought, “Wait, this was ONE year?!”

Yeah, that was Fangs!

I thought Blitzen Trapper would for sure be here. Ah well.