marlowespade
Marlowespade
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Oooh, you’re in for a treat with both TLH and Wishbringer; two of my favorites from the era.

There’s a lot available on Old Time Radio (https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio) , which is where I found the old Philip Marlowe radio broadcasts and some great Welles stuff like The Black Museum. The Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes radio plays are generally available as well.

I would have bet any amount of money it was gonna be Val.

Count me among those unexpectedly delighted with how this turned out. I think what got me most was that it was legitimately funny, and still managed the same ridiculous overheated plots of the original. Six episodes was perfect, and I hope it comes back next year in a similar manner.

Finally the underserved audience for “someone regurgitating Wikipedia entries while another person says, ‘That’s crazy!’” will be sated.

I’m a big fan of The Untouchables (I find it endlessly rewatchable), but tonally it is all over the place, veering wildly between morality play, crime thriller, action-comedy, and suspense. But I like Costner’s do-gooder schtick, Connery’s elder statesman schtick, and all of the individual scenes even if they never

I still maintain that the Vietnam and Bolivia specials are among the best travel programming ever made. They managed to make me want to visit both those places, and were solidly entertaining start to finish.

I’ve yet to finish JJ2 or even start Punisher, LC2 or IF2 so I can’t comment on the collection overall, but I will say I was engrossed by DD3. D’Onofrio IS the Kingpin, and between Bullseye’s psychopathy and Murdock’s story arc, it kept me invested the whole way through.

Well, there’s always the blade runner that gets shot by Brion James after asking him about his mother.

I’m with you in the “Mysterio is the best Spider-villain” camp, all the way, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

Honestly far too many favorites to pick from, even without getting into the whole “who created what” arguments. Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Sue Storm, Hulk... not to mention any number of villains and supporting players.

I still think “Desperados Under The Eaves” is one of the most desperately sad songs I’ve ever heard, with the line “don’t the sun look angry at me” just bottoming me out every time with fear of the future and unknown.

From David Bowie’s “Strangers When We Meet”, which is a song about an affair that went bad, and now the two people can’t even acknowledge each other in public. It’s not clear who’s to blame, but it’s clear from the song that the singer is equal parts to blame and the victim, and realizes that if they were to connect

Season 2 had a cool post-apocalyptic vibe, but turning the Martians into people was a terrible, terrible idea.

Dear God, I’m on the verge of making a Dear God reference.

OH MY GOD, THAT’S CAPTAIN MARVEL’S MUSIC!!

I loves me some Predator as much as the next guy, but I am absolutely stoked to see The Old Man and the Gun, even if just for the joys of watching Redford be a goddamned movie star one more time.

I’m all in for Lovecraft Country (amazing book), but I really think there’s hay to be made with a straight up Lovecraft series based off the Chaosium/Fantasy Flight Games Arkham Horror universe, too. Hell, True Detective season one was practically a blueprint on how to do a Lovecraft series.

I really should get around to trying that series again; I picked it up when I was 13 or 14 and couldn’t really find the handle on it. I’m wondering now that I’m 30 years older if it’s worth another shot.

I’m sorry, I thought I read something that said Mike Colter was among the series’ “weakest performers”?  That dude has charisma to burn. I have no idea what show you’ve been watching, but it sure as hell ain’t Luke Cage.