Possibly something like his Harkonnen chairs?

Except the first season covers a whole year, into summer 1977 (they go and see Star Wars in one of the later episodes). Then they must have wised up about the looming problem of the show title, so the remaining two-and-a-half years of the decade are stretched out for seven seasons, like the Korean War in M*A*S*H.

I disagree. People with good memories for movies may vaguely recall those elements, but it’s not something you could bring up in conversation and expect anyone to get. (Maybe the braid-fucking.)

It was never going to have the cultural impact of Marvel or Star Wars, two fictional settings dating back several decades to radically different (and less crowded) pop cultural landscapes. Why would it?

I feel like the theme park is the strongest part of the argument, since it represents the only way that Avatar has remained present in our cultural awareness at all. On the other hand, I’m not sure the same has done much for Waterworld or Song of the South.

I hope he did it as slowly as the title appears on screen in the original film.

Has Amazon considered doing the same thing as with Rings of Power and set it some 4000 years before the films?

Yeah, there is considerably more time between the original Disney movie and the remake than there was between the first movie and Collodi’s story. Wild!

I would argue that the shift happens over the course of Twin Peaks, and particularly in the finale. In the first season, there are dreams and hints of supernatural elements, but it can pretty easily be fitted into a rational framework. So, the Black Lodge is “merely” a dream Agent Cooper has, for example, while BOB…

I agree that the shift feels quite abrupt, though I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with the storytelling. It just would have worked a lot better if the show marked it in some way. There needed to be some kind of lull there, a space to regroup and set off onto a new story. Netflix doesn’t seem to get…

Oh fuck, that is a horrific death.

I think there are two factors that contribute to this:

As others have argued, I think her becoming very suspicious about Gene makes perfect sense given the phone call and her earlier doubts, and using her computer to do research is a natural response in the situation she’s in. (And it was of course heavily foreshadowed in the earlier episode with the cat videos.) She may…

I thought the “glossiness” of the adaptation was particularly noticeable in the third, Constantine-focused, episode. Britain as seen through John Constantine in that era was grungy, greasy, low-rent, working class. Mad Hettie fit right in.

Glen Keane stares out across the movie theater, intones, “Now I am become Death…”

The ads I’ve seen conspicuously avoid mentioning his name, they just reference some of his past credits. That’s probably enough for most people to not make the connection, even if they heard about and remember his scandal.

Also, the three-paragraph summary of the story gives a strong sense of how bafflingly complicated and arbitrary the worldbuilding and plot apparently are, and so why characters would need to be constantly explaining what the hell is going on.

Humans are psychologically wired to respond strongly to perceived hypocrisy. That means that if a given behavior by a certain person is seen to contradict their public image and stated principles, we tend to condemn it a lot more than we would that very same behavior if it didn’t. (One of the ways Trump could get…

Except that Kim is the one who takes responsibility and decides to change her ways. She feels enough guilt over what she has done that she gives up being with Jimmy and gives up being a lawyer, just so that she won’t do anything like that again. While Jimmy, for all his supposed “heart,” chooses to go full scumbag.

If they were going to cancel it anyway, it’s probably better to cancel it before airing the first episode, right? That way season 2 can be shopped around to some other network or service as “new” rather than “lightly used.”