We need to talk about Kevin.

I love Peter Capaldi in many things but really didn’t enjoy him as the Doctor, he was such a massive drop-off after Matt Smith. To be fair I think only Benedict Cumberbatch or Jude Law could have followed Matt Smith without seeming dull and uncharismatic.

This episode literally made me cry, which is definitely a first for an animated TV show. I basically saw my entire romantic history and post-breakup depression replayed through Diane, even though I’m a male I kept thinking jesus fucking christ this is me, and Mr. Peanut Butter is exactly like my last ex and Pickles is…

They should be allowed to compete if they give a film full theatrical release like Amazon do, I don’t care if they start streaming it on the same day, at least give people a chance to see it in theaters. The fact that they don’t even try to do it shows their true intentions.

That scenario is completely plausible, which for me only says good things about this show’s ability to stay ambiguous. I just find it hard to believe that in a show which attempts to encapsulate the Stephen King ‘universe’ - and with King himself saying that the Dark Tower series (which is about parallel worlds) essent…

I don’t think this will be more than a very limited release in the US either, the point was to demonstrate how little regard Netflix has for cinemas. They will do as little as they can get away with to compete for awards, and in the Coen Brothers’ case to appease the directors. Lucky for you yanks they didn’t own the…

That’s a really interesting theory, I’d be inclined to believe it if they didn’t spend practically a whole episode fleshing out the ‘alternate’ world. Plus you’re then still missing an explanation of where Henry disappeared to when he was a kid, and suddenly appeared from when Alan was sitting there watching the lake?

Sorry you’re right, I meant to originally write we never see that actually happening. All we have to go by are the words of Lacey who could be unreliable.

I hear you but it actually used to be much worse, nowadays most movies open on the same weekend or not too far apart in the US and most of Europe (which for the moment still includes the UK). And I’d much rather wait a couple months longer than not have the film in cinemas at all. Even Under the Skin, which never got…

I didn’t forget that scene, that doesn’t contradict anything I wrote.

Ok let’s stop pretending this is such awful news. I like Gaiman, I like TV shows and I like a lot of the actors but this wasn’t a good TV show. It wasn’t a terrible one either but you need more than ‘not terrible’ these days to justify watching it.

Now that you mention it, I don’t think there has been. In fact the only show I know that did that without getting significantly worse is Veep, and it did get slightly worse.

Yes there is much reason, it’s because seeing movies in the cinema is much more fun than at home. And aside from Academy voters, the other group of people who like to see things on big screens is people who really love movies :)

I’m assuming you live in the US or Canada then. As I said, it wasn’t in a single theatre outside the US. As for an ‘awards-qualifying run’, that’s usually means it’s not a proper release, more a way of cheating the system.

This won’t be in theatres, simply because because Netflix hasn’t released anything in theatres so far, not even Annihilation which was an audiovisual masterpiece (and was only released on Netflix outside the US). This is why I unsubscribed from Netflix, as much as I appreciate them financing films like Roma,…

You make some good alternative hypotheses but about the smile, come on. First of all nobody smiles thinking “I just got locked up in a cage again but hey, at least when this guy dies in god knows how many years, I’ll have another chance to break free!” And second I think most would agree that was a decidedly evil…

On the ‘resolution’ front it felt to me like Bill Skarsgard is playing two different characters, notice we never get the story of how Lacey found him and what sort of dialogues they might have had at the beginning. That makes me suspect that either he became possessed by the devil at some point shortly after crossing…

Just the fact that I finished this season without the feeling of “this is getting silly” that tends to happen somewhere towards the end of most first seasons, especially in the fantasy/sci-fi/supernatural genres, is a very pleasant surprise. It’s really hard to tell a story like that, with so many moving pieces and…

I love how she talks while barely moving her mouth, must be a lip reader’s nightmare.

I agree, just not sure it would work for a lot of people as a TV show. Anyway it seems the company who developed the Walking Dead own the rights and apparently the head honcho there said it’s his life long dream to develop an Amber show, and they’re currently working with Amazon to develop various shows. So if it can…