I think it’s more that I’ve described “not acting”.

Alan Partridge is literally just normal Steve Coogan, 1:1. Tommy Saxondale was the biggest departure I’ve seen him do, in that not only did he speak a bit lower and slower, but he was also wearing a wig. I don’t know who Pauline Calf is, that sounds like a deep cut.

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is a straight-up children’s book (that can be enjoyed by all ages), not Young Adult fiction.

I firmly believe pets should have names like Karen, Mike, or Joan.

I had a feeling I wasn’t the only one whose feeling was “this could be a great show if they got rid of Quellcrist and possibly Kovacs”.

Altered Carbon could be a good show, but they’d have to jettison the main characters and the central storyline first.

10 minutes is too short. An appropriate length for an episode of $thing is 15-39 minutes.

Steve Coogan always seems to be playing, like.. grumpy Steve Coogan, or puzzled Steve Coogan, or tired Steve Coogan, or chirpy Steve Coogan. Just apply a small amount of one emotion to Steve Coogan as-is and that’s supposed to be a character.

I was just listening to an old podcast yesterday that got sidetracked onto the topic of how great that Jejune Institute thing was. Weird. Eerie.

I will eventually, but I’ll never forget the time that mariachi band played for a beluga whale.

These pictures just make it look like someone’s dad doing a crummy cosplay. What’s the over/under on them CGI-ing those ears before the movie’s released? 

I think they tried to do something like Harry Potter’s aging-with-the-audience bit at one point and ended up finishing that with a comic series about armed insurrection that had a body count. And then walked it back?

It doesn’t sound like they’ve gotten rid of Quellcrist or suffocating backstory deep-dives, so I guess no.

It would have to be an animated Adam Reed joint, that’s the only workable solution I can imagine. 

Their grotesquely ripped bulkiness seems more like the original indie underground comix than the kid-friendly cartoon version (and subsequent comic-of-the-cartoon-of-the-comic) did

And it’s gotten a massive amount of free publicity from the whole redesign situation, plus a lot of goodwill for actually responding to fan outcry.

A popular assessment seems to be “none of the jokes are funny and the non-Jim-Carrey humans are kind of just there, but it’s a pretty good action movie”.

You Know My Name was a great song but the production and mix made it kind of flat and mushy. Give it some air, people, you’re suffocating it.

I hear they’ve changed up the gameplay to make it fun to play this time.

Apparently he does it because he’s naturally squinty, so any time he doesn’t have his eyes wide open like that people accuse him of being stoned out of his gourd.