As someone who focuses too much on Tom, I find it fascinating how Shiv and Greg contrast the type of love Tom gives. With Shiv, he’s clingy and desperate to be with her all the time. It’s kind of sweet but sets off some minor red flags.

As someone who loved Tom right from the pilot episode, and has always felt Matthew Macfadyen is remarkable as a very difficult character, I was really thrilled at his ascent up the ladder into Logan’s graces.

He really doesn't come off badly in the article though. Just kind of intense and maybe taking it all too seriously. It's not like the article says he kicks puppies and sexually assaults people.

Do you need to show that in the first season? Seems like you’re better off showcasing why we should care about the present day characters and see them bond and go on adventures rather than using Julia immediately. For all their fame, the anime wisely avoided using Vicious and Julia for the majority of the series,…

What does it matter? At least he got in. Lewis said he had to bow out due to various injuries and surgeries. He said filming season 10 was physically painful, but he powered through it as much as he could. If he needed a green screen to take part, then great for him. At least he's there. 

Watchmen very wisely built itself as a miniseries, so even if it failed, it was a complete story. Then of course watchmen was freaking incredible, which still made the miniseries approach wise. Doing something inspired but unique from the source material would have been maybe better for cowboy bebop.

As a fellow Australian, I think I found this show through the wonderful SBS as well.

Why did Julia need to be in the live action so much? Or at all?

 The important things are that Yoko Kanno got another paycheck and now the anime is on Netflix worldwide (though that will probably be gone before long).

The movie is my favourite element of that great series. The movie is just perfection.

I love how the article describes Cox’s process as “turn it on. Turn it off”. Or as I like the call it, the Ian McKellen Extras approach:

That struck me as really bizarre. Given that he apparently treated his minor role in The Judge as a way to demand special props and weep in the background of scenes he wasn’t in, I can easily imagine he tried to request special things in the gentlemen and Guy Ritchie would have told him to fuck off. 

I get the sense Cox respects Strong’s actual acting work and just thinks all the rest of the bullshit is unnecessary. Cox is the kind of guy who's earned the right to get both great acting to act opposite, as well as never being into the bullshit. 

The whole article is kind of remarkably uncomfortable in that his co-stars on succession seem to not particularly like his level of unnecessary intensity.

The doctor falls is an absolute masterpiece. The horror of Bill being converted. The epic battle with the cybermen. The disturbing trippy physics of time moving different at either end of the ship. Capaldi roaring with rage at the horror he sees. Plus it was hilarious, particularly with Missy and master.

Even flatline was an absolute blast. That one had the doctor use his hand to scuttle around the mini tardis like the Adams family. 

Capaldi I think had a pretty natural progression. Going from being a lovable bastard, to getting in touch with his heart again. Those three Capaldi seasons really work as a complete story. Primarily that the first two were him needing Clara to be a good person and the final season being him needing to be who he was…

I’m sure Chris Noth is a lovely person but the last thing I want when watching doctor who is to be reminded that Donald Trump exists. Not to mention when Noth’s character is such a pathetically broad Trump. 

This simultaneously makes me respect him a lot more and also think he’s kind of delusionally narcissistic.

Sadly this is supposed to be the only time we see Richard Lewis this season, due to his injuries. But it’s great he got this at least.