FilmCriticHulk once quoted his friend, who pegged the problem with J.J. Abrams’ storytelling really succinctly: “I like The Force Awakens, but only as long as it’s right in front of me.”

I should go back and re-read Zahn’s books. I devoured them all, and the lengthy list of other books that followed in his wake, when I was a kid. And I remember thinking Zahn’s were the best by a fair margin, even when I was too young to appreciate how bad some of the others were.

The thing that stuck with me with…

Closing out the decade by beginning another quest:

Look I have seen neither Kimmy Schmidt nor Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but I can still say with certainty that the best CATS spoof is “Zoo Animals on Wheels” from the early 90's Chris Elliot show Get a Life.

I see your Kimmy Schmidt and raise you a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Considering their other shows include American Idol, American Juniors, American Inventor, America’s Got Talent and The Next Great American Band, I think Fremantle may have fundamentally misunderstood what American Gods is about.

The specific commercial you embedded didn’t read that way to me really. The new Oreo commercial on the other hand. 7-11 dude is totally gonna bang that elf.

Listen, Rick, I don't know about you, but to me my relatives are not interchangeable with their infinite parallel-universe counterparts. 

Good point. If a bunch of people refuse to sign at the NDA and leave at the last moment, the venue loses a bunch of drinks sales. Sue the fucker for lost earnings.

The Bale thing wasn’t so much method as him just blowing a gasket. From what I’ve heard, it was an intense scene they’d already done a ton of times at the end of an exhausting day, and while Bale was trying to do this intense scene some lighting guy was dicking around in his eyeline and distracting him (which you’re…

It’s the Universal thing. As soon as the Hulk is the star they lose a fuckton of the revenue. They know how beloved Ruffalo is, but it’s not like they’re short of massively successful films. I’m sure if the sums added up as well as the Disney Spidey deal, they’d do it. 

these shows are great, been watching this one all morning

It’s like they never even made Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

So they just created a larger Buddha Box from South Park?

Coming this summer, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them: Something With Grindelwald’s Third Cousin or Something, Who Gives A Crap.

Playing everywhere. Forever. 

“It’s not HBO. It’s just TV.” - John Oliver

That’s what made 30 Rock so good (and alternately, Studio 60 so bad). It showed how it probably really was, a bunch of overworked writers and actors frantically scrambling to put together something semi-competent in a week, working long hours, sometimes thinking something was funny, other times just trying to fill a…

We already knew from the first teaser.

Essentially, the Banana Splits were in TERRIBLE skits that were bumpers to cartoons. But they had great, classic voiceover work and a theme song easily in the top 10 of all time. It’s so good that it shows up randomly in movies (Kick Ass, Boss Baby off the top of my head) with no context and very limited possibility…

better box copy: One banana, two banana, three banana, GORE!