It just sounds like you’ve only seen bad parody. Good parody is played straight.

This show was so good. It starts of as a straight parody of true crime dramas, but the depth it gets into the characterization and story is amazing. The review quotes are accurate, but so are all the clips about dicks.

To be fair, I think “greenlit with just a cast and a barebones premise” might describe the Ocean’s 11 remake too. You can’t ignore the power of a good director though. 

It’s a Google Voice number, so he can forward it to his various burner phones he keeps cycling through, since he’s a fugitive.

It’s just basic math. A lot of people get a meal, consisting of an entree, a drink, and fries. The list has 4 different drinks, 5 different entrees, and fries. So the entree orders are split at least 5 ways, the drinks 4 ways, and the fries not at all.

The Birds, Breakfast and Tiffany’s, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Double Indemnity, The Duellists, They Live, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Fly, The Grey The Man Who Would Be King, Million Dollar Baby, 2001: A Space Odyssey....

The top one is a film still, the letter grade one is a movie poster that’s a composite. You can also see that the background is different in both.

This will probably never be seen, but Vitali is wrong, and I have the citations to prove it.

The FCC only has rules on Over-the-Air TV, since the airwaves are licensed from them. Cable, all cable, has no regulation, but since advertisers are wary of racy material, and ad-based network self-censors a lot. It’s why HBO has so much nudity/violence/language: no ads.

Josie and the Pussycats didn’t get paid for any of their product placement, as an act of principle.

Repo Man is a great example of a movie going “all-in” on just using generics for everything but cars, to the point the main character eats a can of “food.”

Another example may be Harvey Weinstein’s credit on the LOTR movies, since Miramax was originally producing them until Weinstein dropped the project, causing Peter Jackson to take it to New Line. 

For availability, it’s also on Filmstruck as part of the Criterion Channel: https://www.filmstruck.com/us/watch/detail/1300010440

I went GitS, Avalon, Jin Roh, then Red Spectacles. One of those films is not like the others....

One of the team members says “Welcome to The Southern Reach” while still at the base camp.

Yes, it’s basically confirming that the final season will cover the last 4 books and then end, instead of trying to stretch it out in any way.

I thought maybe the parallel universe stuff was a dig at Fringe, a show Darin Morgan worked on as consulting producer for a while.

The Chinese title is 前任攻略, which Google Translate translates as “Former Raiders”.

I think this comment sums it up:

Actually, everybody gets something. There’s 6 days of gifts, and day 3 was the notice of the wealth distribution. Day 1 you got a percentage in a parcel of land along the Mexican border, with a promise to draw out eminent domain proceedings as long as possible to prevent a wall being built on it. And a card pack