Just be blunt and ask him why Yaz is so useless. I feel sorry for poor Mandip, standing around waiting for the story to come her way.

Meditations on man's place in the infinite, plus zombie space monkeys. Something for everyone.

John Travolta is the new Steven Segeal. Reliably turning out one or two straight-to-streaming duds a year. God I hope they make a movie together.

Ad Astra isn't as good as some say nor as bad as others say. It's fine.

They didn’t help, but even Hemsworth plays the thing like he’s tonight’s guest host.

It’s interesting how many of these shows are comedies, or in the rough shape of a sitcom. The movie world still regards comedy as a lower form, and there seems to be a general agreement that something can be funny or it can be art, but it can’t be both.

I remember seeing this when it first appeared on Netflix and thinking, “I will never, ever watch this show, it looks terrible.”

It’s not as funny as the original short film, Man Getting Dick Sucked By Ghost.

Yup. It was a 2-hour SNL sketch and that's 100% Feig's fault.

This has made me look at the Bible in a new light. When you think about it, Jesus really did go on a lot of boring sidequests. Heal the lepers, turn water into wine - they were just padding out the main story. Worse than Assassin's Creed 3.

It kindof supports Scorsese’s view that these movies are essentially theme park rides, huh?

Art Vandalay: underrated importer/exporter

I HATE these t-shirts generated by algorithms.

Re: absent daemons

Will's father is the missing Arctic explorer mentioned in episode 1. He's revealed to be from our world a little later (episode 3, I think?)

I have no idea why non-book readers are sticking with this show. It must be utterly impenetrable if you don't already know who the characters are.

Scrolled all the way down here to see if anyone likes David Comes to Life

“all the guards at the Magisterium have big mean looking dogs with them”

My feeling is that the character decisions were based on something far more mundane: they got Miranda, who is a recognisable name and can attract an audience, and then they reworked the character to suit his energy.