The entertainment value of this show has a remarkably short half-life: I can manage two to three episodes at a time, and I'm out. (I've been watching this show for years, and I'm still in Season 3.)

Too bad. But now I know why the Netflix versions of ST:TNG looks so great, given their SD origin.

I didn't know season two had started. Thanks for the heads up.

"The chamber of robotic dinosaurs started to fragment whilst the walls disintegrated into nothingness. The mobius strip evanesced like a spectre, and all that was left was the gargantuan green-blue orb - the World." -from Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate

Pure clickbite.

I'd like to think that social media can get its act together quickly, and generate a loud, multi-platform cry of protest.

…Book 1 of the Mortal <objectnamehere> Saga.

Up next: a bottle episode in which Lenny chases a pigeon around St. Peter's Basilica.

On Thomas Jefferson's like-new bible: "he never opened it…. We certainly can't blame Jefferson; the bible isn't light reading." zing!

Even when I don't get the references, the direction is strong enough that I do pick up sub-textual rumblings, if that makes any sense.

I will kill him. I will kill him. These pretzels….

That choice seems a bit too on the nose. He's like the go-to guy for anything ponderous yet (occasionally) visually striking.

Breaking Bad came to mind while watching this episode. Not since I helped Walter White let Jesse's girl choke to death have I seen an arc of slow-burn setups and rapid-fire payoffs play out so effectively. And yeah, that camerawork….

What I love about that shot is that it's perfectly justified, as Lenny, for whatever reason, walks up that stone fence. I sat watching, laughter building, waiting for the inevitable visual punchline.

You'd love "Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter", by Steven Johnson. Probably the most infuriating book I've ever read. His thesis is that pop culture of earlier eras was simple minded, and it wasn't until shows like The Sopranos came along that we had proper…

Thanks for these overviews. (Extra credit if you take on the Tomie series.)

"Popcorn entertainment" isn't a phrase I'd normally associate with J-Horror; it's like calling Lovecraft a "beach read." I'm skeptical, though curious to watch.

Someone's already made your point. This suggests someone's already made mine. Meaning we need and exit condition for this apparently recursive loop.

I just watched The Limey, a pretty great little film, so it's nice to see Mr. Fonda again. And he IS holding up rather well.

Silence of the Lambs swept the awards two years earlier, followed by Unforgiven in 1992. Nominating The Fugitive felt like an attempt to keep that momentum going, by nominating an unabashed genre film that also managed to garner wide critical acclaim. Too bad it didn't win; three years later the award went to…The…