As this is a Law & Order-verse article, I am obliged to link to one of the all-time great AV Club threads I’ve ever had the pleasure of partaking in:

America 2017: In which I am shocked that we didn’t elect a pedophile to the U.S. Senate.

“Lars Turddsen is Seattle’s hottest chard purveyor. His partner, Lisa Gong, knits cat fur. And together, they throw the BEST parties, inviting dozens of friends to the top of a local boulder for batch cocktails, squash blossoms, and homemade lingonberry pies! But bring your sleeping bag! THESE PARTIES GO WAY…

What an excellent primer, great work Ben!

I think the ‘74 version works viewed in the right light; it’s a self-aware spectacle, with a bunch of hams (and Ingrid Bergman!) hamming it up at every opportunity. Suchet’s version though... that just chilled me, right to the very last shot, and you’re spot on in that it makes Poirot’s moral struggle the heart of the…

Man, I just don’t know. I absolutely adore the Lumet version as the big-let’s-all-put-on-a-show outsized grandiose scenery chewing party version of the book, and even the BBC’s Poirot series had a great, much darker take on the story that manages to cast things in a new light (aided by the completely wonderful David…

Jesus Christ, I hadn’t thought about it till you brought it up, but... yeah, probably? I mean, I don’t know if, say, Sinbad even auditioned for the Moff Tarkin role in Rogue One, but...

I first saw her in the series Peep Show, and she’s been absolutely wonderful in everything I’ve seen her in. Her performance in S1 of Broadchurch alone should get her into the Television Hall of Fame.

“Band Geeks”, “Chocolate With Nuts”, “Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V”, and “Wet Painters”.

Bautista and the memory girl stood out to me, agreed they were quite good.

Yeah, she came off as more of a Bond henchman than anything else, to me.

It certainly doesn’t, I was suggesting that bad word-of-mouth might have led to less repeat viewings that might have been predicted.

I also suspect its low take might be because it’s simply not a very good movie. It’s not awful, but it’s long, slow, and devoid of the noir claustrophobia and nervous energy and tension of the original. BR2049 desperately needed the zing of a Rutger Hauer or William Sanderson to give it a live wire; plodding silently…

Listen, Kevin, appreciate the PPV coverage. Hope it stays regular around here!

Man, this was... a weird PPV. By the time they were cutting to Miz and Angle talking about tomorrow night’s Miz TV sequence, it felt like a garden variety Raw episode more than a PPV.

It feels like Trek. It gives us a cast of interesting, flawed characters in a time of uncertainty with a mission and a direction. It gives us a sense of scale and awe both visually and philosophically, and has a wide canvas to explore. It’s got neat-o gee-whiz tech, better effects than ANY prior Trek series (Klingon…

There’s plenty of great wargames made just in the past 5 years alone that are bringing new ideas and systems to the table, even in a hex-and-counter paradigm (and the advent of solo card-driven AI has helped many a wargamer continue to enjoy the hobby even though the audience may be thinner).

Yeah, I weep for AH too. It was (similar to Terra Nova) one of those shows that picked up hugely in the last 4 or 5 episodes when the cast started clicking and the worldbuilding expanded along with the promise of a larger story.

I agree, and I suspect somewhere he’s gnashing his teeth over Fuller pulling out of Star Trek: Discovery.

Personally I’m just waiting for it to catch up so I can go find that crowdsourced Law and Order episode we did as the commentariat years ago.