Was very reluctant to bother with this show, as I find post-pandemic story-telling to be a pretty saturated well I’m tapped out on, but tuned in because I do like Mackenzie Davis so figured I’d at least give it a shot. My biggest surprise, beyond the earnest enjoyment of the show, is despite Mackenzie Davis being my…

You’ve probably read in the other reviews that the series departs significantly (I would say almost completely) from the book. Some of those adaptive choices have been excellent—pairing Kirsten with Jeevan was the best. In the book they meet when Arthur dies but that’s it, really. Other choices, I’ve not liked as…

I just found silly the horses pulling full sized cars/trucks 20 years after, tools and mechanics would still exist to make life better for those poor horses

I thought they did a good job showing the difference between 1 year out and 20 years out. In the first year or two, the gas is still good, so they have generators and cars, canned food hasn’t expired, there are still batteries with power. They are still scavenging, and finding most of what they need, especially things…

Do people not rate Ozark? Reception seems lukewarm here but I really enjoy it. It makes me slightly sick from worry every time, but it feels like a different spin on a crime family drama. And there’s no levity in it, like, at all. And I kind of find that refreshing.

Yeah, the show made it clear there he wasn’t behind that. But I’m confused by the point of that bombing scene. It was very dramatic, but it’s whole purpose in retrospect seems to only be as a fake-out to make us think Tyler was this evil antagonist.

Yeah I wish they'd have made that more clear because her even thinking that he may have used the kids like that like of ruins things... 

The difference is this one uses a lot of blue filters on the camera. 

The baby does survive. We see Deborah write up a birth cert for her under the name Alexandra. It’s Alex.

Episode five really seems to be the weakest of the bunch. The people do not act like real human beings and they do a lot of telling us the kid Tyler is weird while not really showing anything. Yeah, he brings the person from the plane in, but that was just to me being naïve, like a kid would be, and assuming (probably…

I wouldn’t be concerned about catching COVID from Miley and Pete.

Unfortunately, this movie that is single-handedly saving the cinematic experience is clearly not cinema.

Seeing a movie in a theatre is like listening to music on vinyl or reading a book on paper. It was once the only option and it’s fetishized now. I can appreciate fetishizing an experience and if that means something to you, great, but cut it out with telling us it’s the only “real” way to experience media.

I’d never thought I’d live to see a time when I could say, “This depiction of a worldwide pandemic isn’t at all realistic.”

Darren McGavin was actually 60 at the time of filming!

That's frahGEElay

He’s giving a hell of a performance in this role so at least his ridiculous methodology isn’t a complete waste of time.

I’ve said this before but here we go again: “Hollywood” isn’t a thing. It’s a word used to describe the film industry. Sometimes, it’s limited to the American film industry; sometimes it’s the film industry in general; other times it’s to talk about celebrities, American or not.

I think I assumed it was set in the 50s because it was filmed in colour.  So basically there’s a part of me that believes Calvin’s Dad’s theory that until recently colour didn’t exist.

The movie is set sometime after The Wizard of Oz debuted in August 1939 (the characters in the department store while Ralphie is waiting to see Santa are clearly modeled after the film characters, not the books), but probably before America entered WW II in December 1941: there’s no mention of the war, and no soldiers…