This was actually a spin-off of ‘The Good Place’. Dan has been dead all along and the show was set in hell.

I read somewhere that the primary showrunner had already bailed on the series a week ago. This was just ABC’s excuse for putting a series they never should have aired out of its misery.

And since all things now have Youtube Clips, here’s that Bruce Willis song.

The Korean hit series ‘Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food’ has been made available to the US public under the significantly less compelling title of “Something in the Rain” (yuck). To me it’ll always be ‘Pretty Noona’. The ‘pop culture’ link is in the sound track which includes Tammy Wynette’s classic ‘Stand By Your Man’,…

You earned a star for the Vauxhall reference.

Elon Musk is less Tony Stark and more Shamwow pitchman.

I was a loyal HOUSE viewer, in the same way I was a loyal LOST viewer. I think it has something to do with the all caps titles.

Let’s add a promo:

Sorry for taking so long to respond. “My Mister” is being streamed on the ‘Drama Fever’ Asian series website. They’ve got the full season up. Free streaming up to episode 12, it’ll take a few weeks wait for them to unlock the last 4 episodes. Though you could always subscribe.

This is entirely tangential to the point being made, but I was reminded of the 2016 Korean series ‘the K2' where the director gave us a full 2+ minute scene of a solitary young woman in a bathrobe cooking and eating instant Ramen noodles. It didn’t come freighted with any great existential subtext, though.

There’s an old Johnny Carson line that goes something like ‘If they buy the premise they’ll buy the bit’. My problem with the Joker was that I never bought the whole Batman neo-noir reality premise. The joker has all the character depth of one of those wind-up toy monkeys who crashes cymbals together with a leering…

Combat in the middle east? You mean during the Suez crisis of 1956?

Who was the director who did ‘Amelie’? Jeanne-Pierre Jeutnet. I class him with del Torro and Peter Jackson. An auteur who fell in love with his own style and believed his own press releases about being a ‘genius’, to the detriment of his subsequent films.

I genuinely disliked Pan’s Labyrinth. A cruel and cynical story about a child murdered by her father.

Even unrecognizable with eyeballs on his hands, Benedict Cumberbatch still managed to shamefully over-act in Pan’s Labyrinth too.

So much of America is sub-literate (or, to quote Seinfeld, ‘aliterate’ which is someone who knows how to read but chooses not to) that the topic of burning books goes over their heads. To them its equivalent to burning floppy disks or VCR tapes.

File this under “The best TV nobody in America knows about”. The dark Korean series ‘My Ajusshi’ (translated ‘My Mister’). Now up to episode 14 in its 16 episode run and currently on 2 week hiatus, much to the chagrin of the show’s fans.
One reviewer wrote:
“I wish that words were adequate to describe the stark,…

Rosanne - both the character and the actress - were raging egoists at heart. Egoists hold onto no philosophy but self-love. They eventually discard anything that obstructs the view of their reflection in the mirror. Compassion for others is readily sacrificed on the altar of their self-worship. And then the eventually…

I said elsewhere that I’m all apocalypsed-out. That includes superhero movies, prestige ‘dystopian future society’ series, and this insubstantial little series too. Please, no more ‘end-of-the-world’ entertainment. The best thing I’ve seen this year is a Korean series about a middle-aged guy in danger of losing his…

“Rambo: The Reckoning” Johnny Rambo gets brought up on murder charges in Vietnam and stands trial as a war criminal. Ends with him drinking poison in court.