+1. This was on par with the first couple of years, worked on its own terms, and even feels necessary by the time everything clicks into place in the end.

These reviews (like the season itself) are excellent. Thanks for reminding us about who some of the old characters cameo-ing are and book connections... it’s been a long time.

Do you have any evidence of this? Youtube obviously has the technology to keep off copyrighted materials and anything salacious, so there’s no reason to think they couldn’t flag harassment.

Yeah, I don’t understand why people make that argument — who’s subscribing to five services? 

Yup. If this turns into a year-round version of the various holiday shapes, I’m down.

I don’t think this is totally fair. TFA deservedly gets faulted for relying on nostaglia too much, but JJ knew enough to get Han offscreen and make the final fight be about Finn and Rey versus Kylo, after Rey finally gives up waiting on a family that isn’t coming back. It struck the right balance for me.

Yeah... seeing the Resistance essentially wiped out over a couple of days then ending with Leia saying “we have everything we need!” on the Falcon at the end with the other 10 survivors is indicative of some of the tonal weirdness in the movie. 

The comment about her thick neck... incredible.

This is a good question... their older stuff is great, but Sleep Well Beast is the tiniest bit more modern (it would be a stretch to call it electronic, but you know what I mean) and it really made me a fan in a way I wasn’t before.

Dunno, this was worth reading for me — she’s not saying everyone could make these choices and succeed (I couldn’t!) but that it might be worth re-thinking your spending drastically in order to buy more freedom down the line. 

I’ll second this. The Iannucci years were excellent and the last three seasons have obviously been more over the top — but Mandel still brought solid character work to what remained arguably the funniest show on TV.

I really did think we’d get more after they mentioned that Labor Day was the name of Selena’s mother’s boat this season!

It’s... certainly the outliers commenting, isn’t it. I’m doing 29 and doing better than most of my friends but certainly don’t have $200k in assets.

Excellent choices. I might have to watch those again soon.

Yeah I don’t understand that -- especially because there’s the wonderful Michael Scott Paper Company/Cafe Disco/Company Picnic run at the end of the season, which was probably the last time they could crank out more than one good episode at a time. 

There’s a million good ones above... but a few favorite runs:

Almost everything post-wedding in season six would deserve it...

Yeah, it’s a little weird seeing a vocal subset of “fans” come up with reasons they aren’t going to like a movie eight months in advance based on a brief teaser.

I agree with a lot of this (TLJ was deep!) and disagree with some (most of TFA’s dialogue and tone is better than that of the previous six movies)... but man is it exhausting to decide you’re going to hate a movie based on speculation from a 90 second trailer.

Yup, seems most likely that this will be about Rey taking up Luke’s mantle metaphorically.