Animal Control is frustratingly whelming. Nothing that makes me want to stop watching, but nothing that really keeps me invested week-to-week.

I forgot about that show. It seemed like to me FOX was trying to get another Brooklyn Nine-Nine thing going, but police unpopularity is at an all-time high, so they went with a similar thing that’s not going to make anyone mad.

EDIT: But yeah, we chortled heartily at that line. Animal Control is pretty anemic overall (McHale and Lovell are the only reasons I’m even watching it) but it’s a good premise and cast, and I wish it had sharper writing.

Fully agreed. New cast, but they had a fine groove. I’m an unapologetic fan of S6.

She is correct. It’s the best post S3 season - S4 is a peculiar imitation of what the show was the first 3 years, and S5 didn’t have the time to readjust and never got its footing back once Glover left. S6 is a very different show than the first 3 years with its cast changes, but it’s ultimately more consistent than…

SOOOOOO with you on this.

I sympathize with the WGA, but let’s not forget poor Ted Sarandos, who if he were forced to pay writers a decent wage for their labor, wouldn’t be able to afford to pay Dave Chappelle another 20 million dollars for another 6 years worth of hour long transphobic rants.

If I’m remembering faces correctly, the woman who OD’d was the same woman who was playing the piano for Nygaard’s fundraiser earlier in the season. She was her former student. Which makes me wonder if Phippsy and she didn’t meet through Nygaard. Phippsy obviously resents her for some reason. I wonder if there isn’t…

Of course it was Mrs. Nygaard. Ebert had a rule about who the killer was, and her butler fit that bill I think. The montage of her playing the piano as we check in on our characters was well done. The why she did it was interesting, as the show incorporated real world events pretty cleverly and I loved the end-credits…

Ohhhh, I was so close in last week’s comment section. Smuggling past the oil embargo instead of environmental cover-up, but otherwise got it right. If there is a super-rich person just hanging around the periphery of a noir story you can pretty much guaranty they are the ultimate baddie.

The words are bad enough. But if you can, definitely watch the video because the overall delivery makes it so. much. worse. Owen literally finger-wags at her employees as she yells at/lectures them. Her voice is shaking she’s so angry that employees have the temerity to ask for/expect bonuses. Then she tells them to…

“The Gang Sacks a Pervert”

He reportedly kept waggling his eyebrows and saying “What, no one wants to eff Murray Abraham?”

I like it, too. I think the franchise has suffered by focusing so much on Jedis (and their not very great organization) and specifically Skywalkers, so having the series focus on Mandalorians (and even having Grogu choose them rather than the Jedis) is refreshing. I’m not too worried, either, that whatever happens is…

Din: Grogu, NO!
Grogu: Yes. Yes. YES. YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!!!!!

Somehow I am always a contrarian without meaning to be one because I am enjoying this season a lot more than last season. They definitely should have left Grogu with Luke but the story about retaking Mandalore is a lot more compelling to me than just seeing the adventures of Grogu.

Mei is an awful, awful character that seems like a bad parody of Palladinio’s heroines.

i like the idea of him advising on rise of skywalker specifically to invent problems that he can solve. ‘no no make it a palpatine clone, everyone will love it’.

Do you not understand what a pre-air review is?

That’s a weird thing to say to a pop culture critic. Just don’t read it?