Welliver is absolutely killing it on Bosch. Great supporting cast, each episode moves quickly, and it’s just a solid serialized mystery series with a bit more “day in the life” air of the grind of real police work than a typical cop show.

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 hadn’t thought about it before you brought it up, but I think I agree. The general reluctance to speak definitively on the topic by the people involved now combined with the circumstantial evidence that this would almost have to be no more than 25-40 years before TOS (presuming no parallel timeline/universe…

Interesting. Along those lines, is there anything that makes you think ST:D isn’t itself the reboot of the original series?

+1 for Handlen, he’s been terrific.

Just wanted to say that as a lifelong Trek fan, this show is delivering the goods. It’s a fascinating amalgamation of a bunch of Trek tropes, modern day aesthetics, flawed characters and some really, really good acting by damn near everyone, with special mention for Rapp and Isaacs. (Lt. Tyler I don’t quite buy yet,…

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.

Seriously. It’s 95 degrees here in the last half of October. I’ll be shocked if we’re averaging anywhere below 75 by Christmas.

“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!