Okay, but that’s not the problem here — the issue is that Lucasfilm hired an acting coach FOR HIM, and HALFWAY THROUGH FILMING. They saw the dailies, and were not impressed with his performance, so much so that they assigned him an acting coach.

Yeah, literally the first TV spot after her monologue was for the film.

Yeah, talk about a major fumble on SNL’s part.

So that was a spectacular fuck-up in the cold-open, huh? It was bad enough when the camera was swinging wildly to try and center Strong’s Hope Hicks on the green screen, but then when he swung it around and looked right into the lense, the camera slightly tilted and the image absolutely out of focus? EEEK. Someone is…

Yeah, $30 million is nothing to sneeze at. That’s a whole other show of money! How do you manage to wrangle that money without someone catching on and putting a stop to it a few million in?

Still super curious what rewrites happened with Westworld in that huge chunk of time that production was halted. To their credit, everything in that season seemed pretty seamless to me. Maybe all the Maeve stuff wasn’t there initially?

There was a whole lot of cooks in the kitchen with the Hannibal production, but I think it was Sony’s show as a distributor, technically. Gaumont International seemed to be the main production company, though, and the only people probably getting funding for it. Either way, I don’t think NBC was involved in the actual…

It’s funny how you bring up the world being there to serve Joe being a problem, because that’s exactly what I loved about the movie, especially compared to the original. I was cold on that one because I always found Deckard to be a very boring character, who is completely listless as the main character in his own…

One other thing: this test will determine if the core human group makes it to The Good Place...but what about Michael and Janet? They have no Earth to go back to in order to test themselves. And though you can argue Janet could just go to the Good Place and serve the people there, I think we’ve seen from her this…

Great episode, although I do kind of question why it’s the season finale, rather than the opener for Season 3. I was expecting the next season would send the cast back to Earth (or some variation of it) ever since Michael’s whole line about the only way to get to the Good Place is doing actions on Earth. I figured the…

His poor, poor ass...

I hope we get a cameo down the line from school janitor Charlie Kelly. He still has so much to teach the children!

This pilot was fine, whatever. But can I just say that it will suck if this show gets weekly reviews, but The Mick doesn’t? So bummed they dropped the latter reviews so quickly (right as it was getting really good too!), since I don’t think any other website devotes time to the series. Now I feel like the only person…

You’re right, there’s video evidence and everything!

So like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?

Really liked this episode, but anybody else worried this wasn’t the season finale? Seemed like it was the big centerpiece of the series thus far, wrapping up the main Lorca storyline while introducing a new big twist (that Discovery landed in the future, in a world where the Klingons had won.) It seemed like the first…

It’s funny too, because the reason people are praising Star Wars ( “It’s new! It’s bold! It’s different!”) is the exact thing that most people hate with Discovery (“It’s not like the thing I once liked, therefore, it is garbage.”) IMHO, both are good but have substantial issues that keep them from being great. The…

This 100%, and the idea of different species cooperating has been at the forefront of the series since the first 10 minutes of the damn pilot. And not to pull out that card, but I feel like a lot of old school Trek fans (including Zack) are still kind of thrown off by the fact that this is one serialized story - this…

I know you mention that this was a tricky episode to grade but, my god, this is the most negative B review I’ve ever read. It’s clear that this show has lost you Zack, but this review seemed more like an airing of greviances than anything else. I kind of feel sorry that you have to review the next three episodes,…

Yeah, I am stunned Dennis chose Luke Nell as MVP, just because of some beatboxing. Either he’s throwing the guy a pity bone, or he’s being paid off by Big Luke Nell. Either way, I demand a federal investigation for this crime until a motive is determined!