Eh, I’d settle for them not having done the last six episodes. Jane Lynch as a Greek goddess was just plain peculiar.

Apocalypse TV is all about the ‘time jump’. How many times did ‘Last Man On Earth’ do it to get themselves out of a narrative cul-de-sac with a time jump?That other zombie series ‘iZombie’ also did a time jump because they didn’t want to go to the bother of following the tedious world-building of Seattle’s new…

Remember the 5th season of ‘Survivor’? Richard Hatch sexually assaulted a fellow contestant on camera, they aired the incident, and all the host did was say ‘Awh Richard, don’t do that’ or words to that effect. The mortified contestant quit the show and threatened to sue but was bought off with an (unaired) episode of…

#2 is the reason why I’m against rebooting old series. The returning actors only serve to remind us about the inevitability of aging and eventual death.

This film was so milquetoast mild that the producers were in horror of the prospect of receiving the dreaded ‘G’ rating so they inserted a scene where Hanks calls Ryan a bitch for no other reason than to hit the ‘PG’ ratings sweet spot.

K-pop IU is unrecognizable compared to her drowned rat temp worker character in ‘My Ajusshi’. I hear she holds the crown of favorite artist among Korean army infantrymen.

Here’s a very funny Youtube review that goes on for a full hour and a half telling us why ‘Sherlock is garbage. The reviewer has some serious rage issues.

Heh, that Batman getup look less like muscles and more like a middle-aged fat guy.

There’s something vaguely Trumpian about this particular ‘scandal’.

The finale of ‘Sherlock’ was such unmitigated garbage that I stopped watching PBS because of it. But can ‘Sherlock’ be considered an otherwise great show? It certainly had the media pushing it as high art but it did a grave injustice to the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, turning him into a weird secret agent superhero.

I located two translations in a local book store and compared them side-by-side. The Penguin Classic edition seems more readable. The other translation seemed a bit too ‘scholarly’ for my tastes.

First, let’s say up front is that (f)Tucker Carlson is an immoral pile of dog vomit who is a danger to the nation.

You’d be hard-pressed to call early Beatles ‘rock music’. It was very much boy band love songs directed at 14 year old girls.

No mention of IU, who I suppose is more of a ballad singer in the vein of Joni Mitchell than your typical bubble-gum pop music group. She turned in an awards-worthy dramatic performance this year in the series ‘My Ajusshi’.

I’m finally on the last couple of pages of ‘The Tale of Genji’, the veeeery thick thousand year old “first novel ever writtten”. It reads surprisingly modern and sophisticated, despite the barbaric practices towards women in Japan at the time. The novel was written by a woman so doesn’t shy away from cataloging the…

Does anyone recall the 1961 Jack Lemmon film ‘the Apartment’? The despair was so thick in that film that you could cut it with a knife. It ends with an attempted suicide, if memory serves. Like ‘Breakfast a Tiffany’s it involved a young woman in New York basically being used as a sex toy by her bosses while a helpless…

Jacob’s Ladder is my touch-stone for the ‘they’re already dead’ plot twists that followed, from Mulholland Drive to Pan’s Labyrinth and another half dozen besides. I’m watching a film, I realize ‘Oh, they’re already dead’, then remember that Jacob’s Ladder did it first and better... for me at least.

I did have a crush on her from this film.

Blake Edwards. Do we really need to say more?

I’ve commented before about how many viewers just don’t get the subtext of the film they’re watching. Oftentimes its seems they don’t even get the text! All they see is the shiny surface veneer. Comic Rachel Bloom has a stage bit about the people who love Marilyn Monroe but have never seen any of her films. All they…