Old Mr. Prendergast trundles his converted school-bus around town, giving tours to all the sites of fictional horrors. Until one day…

Kids? I thought they were Younglings. Or has that term been removed from the Canon?

Nice description…that thing was creepy as hell.

I don't think he does break the Kuleshov effect. I'm not even sure that's possible, since it's just whatever meaning you get out of a cut between two shots. This Nerd-guy seems to be overplaying that angle of his thesis.

But the Kuleshov effect is about creating a third meaning from two adjacent shots (face+baby=love; face+soup=hunger.) Screwing with your timeline (e.g. Arrival) undercuts the validity of that meaning, and to a certain extent breaks the trust I've placed with filmmaker, which is why such brute force methods always feel…

These sound like something the Party wives would have running in the background of The Man in the High Castle.

Eto pravda! Soviet invented Disqus!

Mr. Law might have some competition in the real-life Father Ganswein. (I'm not sure if he's been mentioned here before; I only heard about him through an interview with Sorrentino.)

I remember watching the promos for this show, and looking forward to a snarky, wink-filled take the Catholic Church and Vatican politics.

True. For starters, PewDiePie is Swedish, while A Bridge Too Far was in the Netherlands.

Thanks for that advice. (I also know nothing about anime, and it's pretty intimidating, seen from the outside.)

An interesting, poker-like play: "I'll see your charges of whitewashing, and raise you one 'franchise with a female protagonist'…." Now I don't know what to think.

What are your thoughts on 1995's animated version? Would that be a better starting point (for someone like myself, who knows nothing about the source material)?

I'm curious. But I don't know anything about this particular art form, so seeing what is (apparently) a fairly bastardized version strikes me as a shitty point-of-entry for experiencing the genre.

In fairness, that coordinated Hannibal look IS pretty tough to pull off.

Christopher Hitchens wrote a hatchet-piece, of sorts, on Mother Teresa. In researching that a bit, the similarities between Teresa and Sister Antonia become apparent. Among other things, Teresa courted outrage by essentially defending "Baby Doc" Duvalier, (then) President of Haiti, and in particular his treatment of…

I was curious about that myself.

Zen Shiatsu massage also looks similar, though not that intense. Whatever it was, sign me up.

So Spencer's guilty of pride? How mundane…I'm disappointed in him. So much for his concerns for the church or the clergy; once his grab for the papacy is finished, he throws in towel, stops sulking like a petulant child (almost) and starts giving helpful advice.

I'm continually impressed at the show's willingness to extinguish a dramatic development almost as soon as it's introduced. The impostor parents, of course, but also that thumb-drive. ("But none of that will happen…. There won't be any scandal.") I'm so used to seeing…and being frustrated by…elements like those being…