I heard an interview with Weiss & Benioff where they said that they produced the first episode in such a whirlwind that it came in too short and they had to add material at the last minute. Since it already had a solid story arc that they couldn’t mess with, and they didn’t have money or time for anything too involved,…
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It’s also in his character to have a slavish commitment to integrity even when it’s not the wisest choice. It’s consistent for him to do the right thing for his personal morality — i.e., being open with Dany — without considering whether it’s the right thing for the bigger picture.
This song is as old now as Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up” was when it came out. I’m into math so I like to calculate things like that and then hit myself over the head with an empty whiskey bottle.
I had an annual subscription that I’d swear was due to expire in early April, but this morning I checked it and saw that it seems to have been extended a month without my card being charged. Now I wonder if they’re extending subscriptions to fudge the subscriber numbers.
Interestingly, Sesame Street has always had grown-up references like this because pedagogical research shows that kids benefit more from educational TV when their parents watch it with them — so it’s a conscious attempt to engage with adults.
They blew a perfect opportunity to kill off Elmo.
Nowadays I crash if I start my morning with carbs, but when I was a kid hot grape nuts were one of my favorite treats, and had the added bonus of not having to pick the hard bits out of my molars for the rest of the day.
My fosters used to watch the NYC remake of that show starring rats.
I love City Island. It’s like Red Hook times a thousand.
Oddly, yes. That is a fascinating internet rabbit hole.
I still managed to tear up in the half-second it took him to say “Hodor,” but then the “Swearengen” right after made me LOL. It was an emotional roller-coaster.
This is a really helpful site if you get produce boxes where you don’t know what’s in it till you get it. When my box arrives, as I unpack it I enter each item into my ingredient list — and then every day or two I can easily find a recipe that uses whatever’s going to go bad the soonest. https://www.supercook.com/
Colbert and Batiste may like each other as people but they have zero comedy chemistry. I wish they would at least turn off Batiste’s mic when the band isn’t performing because he’s not funny and his voice is kind of grating. He sounds a little bit like Jerry Lewis’s nutty professor.
The problem with specifying “recent” is that it implies an age preference — it doesn’t have anything to do with the education level.
Right? It’s not like it has weird music licensing issues; streaming rights must be bargain basement.
I’m always excited when someone else has heard of it, let alone was a fan. Its cancellation was sort of formative for me and I think not unrelated to getting rid of my TV shortly after.
Reboots should only happen for shows that were cancelled prematurely, not the ones that were on life support for their last few seasons. Get a Life is a perfect candidate. My other fantasy reboot along those lines would be Bakersfield PD.
I was TV-free and then out of the country during the original Will & Grace run so I finally binged it from start to finish in anticipation of the reboot. Joke was on me. I didn’t make it through the first episode and I don’t even remember how they explained away the original finale, though I’m assuming it had…
RIP Linc Stark. FYI, JustWatch is a great resource for paying tribute to someone via a comprehensive binge.