The problem of ruining an otherwise thoughtful film (or TV series) with a manufactured audience pleasing ending is endemic to the industry. How many times have we read about studios reshooting an ending to make it bland and predictable after first running it past a focus group?

Your concern over this point can now be viewed in the light of the current ‘Bachelor’ series (and worse) where contestants do seem gleefully willing to shag each other in order to be ‘TV stars’.

Back again. That ‘refereshingly uncynical’ series got pretty darned dark and cynical about halfway through. But still, no superheroes or apocalypses or gun play so its a net plus.

All this trouble over an annoying series that was little more than ‘All In The Family’ with a female lead, anyway. They should instead reboot ‘Kate and Allie’ with 70 year old Jane Curtin and 71 year old Susan Saint James.

I’m afraid if they killed off Rosanne in the show they’d claim ‘a black guy did it’.

Ah! It took me a couple seconds to get the reference, but when I did I laughed.

I’m a big fan of Korean TV dramas, which are equal parts food porn and brutal emotional manipulation. The number of unearned tearjerker scenes are too numerous to mention. Here’s a scene from ‘I’m not a robot’ (take the title literally) that includes the lead literally weeping blood.

I only watched the series (very) briefly but I got this weird vibe that even at the start the duo weren’t exactly enjoying each other’s company. The reason for watching a suicidally depressed buddy cop series is for the bromance. And there was no bromance.

If the feud has gone on this long it must’ve been a ‘choice’.

‘Batman and Robin’ was one of the last of the great ‘coked-up studio executives’ movies of the late 80s and early 90s. To paraphrase the egg-in-frying-pan anti-drug commercial - This is the Hollywood entertainment industry... (crack, sizzle) This is the Hollywood entertainment industry on drugs.

I’ve been enjoying the Korean series ‘Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food’ (alternate boring international title ‘Something in the Rain’). Frankly, its a pleasure to occasionally watch something not deeply cynical like American TV. Plus there’s the refereshing lack of apocalypses, gunfights, or absurdly dressed superheroes.…

There was a Korean TV series a few years back where someone’s middle-aged dad was the world’s biggest Chow Yun-fat fan, including all the costumes, speech and mannerisms. It was not at all subtle, played totally for laughs, but also a bit of a loving tribute.

I like the idea of it being like David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ where we find out Dan actually is dead and the whole series is the randomly firing synapses in the dead man’s brain in his final seconds.

Fold it in with ‘The Good Place’. The first season was actually set in hell.

I’m old enough to have remembered watching the Muppets on the variety show circuit and yes, their transition to ‘The Muppet Show’ and ‘Sesame Street’ seemed like a big dilution of the caustic pointed humor that made them so great. In the same vein, check out original early ‘Peanuts’ cartoons. Compare them to those…

I burned out on superhero movies and apocalypse movies loooong ago.
They don’t say anything to me anymore, except they tell me that American cinema is too cowardly to depict anything approaching reality. I just finished watching a Korean TV series involving a temp worker caught up in a scheme to destroy a middle-aged…

I don’t think stoners realize how annoying they are.

The pro-slavery hip-hop fanbase must be excited for this. Everyone else in the world, not so much.

If Netflix is attempting to recreate the magic and appeal of internationally beloved ‘K-dramas’ I’m all for it. A ‘celebrity ‘chef’ lead is 100% Korean romantic comedy territory. Hit series like Coffee Prince, Pasta, Oh My Ghost, Temperature of Love, and Revolutionary Love spring to mind, and there’s another dozen…

The sea change came when they destroyed the career of Garrison Keillor, someone about as far from a ‘Harvey Weinstein’ that a person can get. Azis Ansari was then crucified for going on a bad date back when he was a relative nobody. Again, doesn’t rise to the level of ‘Harvey Weinstein’. Just before the scandals broke…