Man, you are not going to be a fan of the upcoming Disney Plus special, “WHAT IF...IRON MAN GOT RAPED BY A PANDA?” Not sure why it’s 98 minutes long, either.

Breaking Bad in its final season was the show I had hoped it would be starting in season two. Honestly, they could have cut all the stuff with geodes and shoplifting (but keep Gus, obviously) and the show would have been a lot stronger with fewer overall episodes.

I cannot believe that The Big Bang Theory is on any serious list of good television, let alone the best television. And it’s ranked higher than The Good Place, which is truly offensive.

That said, I’m overjoyed to see Babylon Berlin on here. Please, can more people watch this so I can finally talk about it with…

On the one hand The Wire fucked up its last season too (well, kinda, the stuff on the streets is great as ever but the fake serial killer and the newspaper stuff, oof). So I get the point. A weak last season doesn’t necessarily cancel the greatness that came before.

Damn I guess I better watch Succession.

Dexter should be nowhere near this list. The Good Place deserves to be higher. 

In my experience scientists can harbor some impressively disturbing beliefs because they perceive those beliefs as rational without realizing they started from an irrational premise. The nice thing is that truly analytical people often find it rewarding to start thinking from a new premise. I’m happy for your…

Lord of the Rings is a good narrative with a really interesting tone, but Tolkien was not a prose stylist. If you know who the characters are and where the plot is going (which the movies establish very well) it’s a lot easier to skim big chunks of the novels. For example, “In the House of Tom Bombadil” is a slog, but…

That looks like a play put on by a high school with a decent budget.

In fairness Many Saints of Newark was really, really bad

I’ve been trying to read Dune since 1986.

Gang, I know it’s awkward but can we not shorten “Siobhan” to “Shiv”? Even if that’s how it’s pronounced? It takes just as many letters to write Siob. Or if that seems odd because the “bh” is what makes the “v” sound, write Siobh.

It doesn’t matter, Arriffic — even if you did, Kinja wouldn’t let you!

I’m not sure I’d agree with that. I think a lot of the point of the show is about how these people are actually exactly the same as the rest of us, only with more ability to do want they want to do (and then threaten to take that away from them so that they have to fight over it). I mean, if you gave Mark and Jez a…

So, a Nolan-era retread, then. It looks...fine. It’s fine. I’ll almost certainly see it, but I’ve come to the realization that I’m kind of just over Batman shit. He’s vengeance, he’s the night, he’s got a weird growly voice, yadda yadda yadda.

Succession is an all-time great show— the best writing and performances on TV right now— and it looks at that world in an insightful and unromantic way, I wouldn’t lump it in with Billions and the like (and I do enjoy Billions but know it’s junk food.)

He’s as bad or worse than everyone else, he’s just midwestern

I just really want to know who will get the kiss from daddy. 

“attempts to be a modern and moody adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel.”

Let’s be honest, it’s attempting no such thing. It’s obviously based (at least some elements) on the movie which already had very little direct connection to the novel, IIRC. I was about 14 at the time and Scream had made me anxious for…

The only reason I kept watching Nine Perfect Strangers was b/c of his performance. Truly masterful.