You caught me, I clearly loathe this TV show I have written 25,000 words about and given uniformly high scores to.

I’ve seen it called FAST TV, as in free ad supported television. Or, in other words, TV TV. 

I’m tarred with the Mencken brush, so I may as well get my goodies. There’s no point in joining the party unless you get your little dacha.

Good that he’s standing with the writers for a fairer deal. The heartbreaking thing is that Andor is so, so good, and that is clearly the result of great effort on his part and everyone else working on it. I think it’s a masterpiece, frankly. The idea that a strike could end up disrupting the quality of season 2 would…

Maybe the take away is supposed to be that Ginny really gets Perry even when he is wrong? I wish he had given a clear apology though. 

One of the many things I love about the show is how they handle the identity changes of legacy characters and weave them into the fabric of the stories being told.

Was a good season, and I hope they get to continue. Rhys is really good in an understated way and there is so much territory to mine in 1930s Los Angeles.

I liked Camilla as a morally bankrupt civic leader. and Hope Davis was great and far more diabolical than I thought Davis could pull off. No wonder she barely flinched bee-bagging. Initially, I thought the father Lydell was going to be the one pulling strings because Paul Raci just sucks all the wind out of a…

If I’m remembering faces correctly, the woman who OD’d was the same woman who was playing the piano for Nygaard’s fundraiser earlier in the season. She was her former student. Which makes me wonder if Phippsy and she didn’t meet through Nygaard. Phippsy obviously resents her for some reason. I wonder if there isn’t…

Pete’s post-fight barf was a nice touch.

Of course it was Mrs. Nygaard. Ebert had a rule about who the killer was, and her butler fit that bill I think. The montage of her playing the piano as we check in on our characters was well done. The why she did it was interesting, as the show incorporated real world events pretty cleverly and I loved the end-credits…

Ohhhh, I was so close in last week’s comment section. Smuggling past the oil embargo instead of environmental cover-up, but otherwise got it right. If there is a super-rich person just hanging around the periphery of a noir story you can pretty much guaranty they are the ultimate baddie.

To be fair, on the grand list of all the Empire’s crazy schemes that can’t be more than the 27th craziest thing they’ve ever tried.

I really don’t understand how this show totally returns to form and gives us and episode like this and it gets a C+ lol. It does a great job of tying together this season, one that I’ll maintain is so incredibly lopsided because they had to fold in what would’ve been Rangers of the New Republic plot points.

Personally, I’ve never understood the accusations about this season. So it has episodic stories with different tones, you mean like...a TV show? Which it’s always done since the first season? It’s very reminiscent of the people who accuse the MCU of being “too fun,” and I’d guess there’s a sizable overlap. And for all…

I feel the grade’s about right. Excellent Juliet Rylance courtroom interrogation. This felt the longest episode of the season. I didn’t buy that Perry would immediately suspect Ginny as the culprit working to wreck his case. I theoretically get it: Perry doesn’t like himself, and in his insecurity, he wouldn’t believe…

Another good episode. I’d quibble with giving the brothers that motivation—a dead sister—for killing McCutcheon. Felt too contrived. Having them forcibly removed from their homes was good enough. And nice job backdating the real coerced displacement of those communities in order to build Dodger Stadium and including…

Now THIS is a class production; the story web with its interconnected parts, the scenes, sets, and surroundings (probably the CGI too FWIW these days, you can hardly tell...) the costumes, the writing, the direction and cinematography, night shots that actually look like night, the acting.... ALL excellent. I hope…

I’d rate this higher than a C+, I think. The writers’ intent wasn’t to wow with something new, but just go back to these very likable characters doing their thing. The episode was a setup for the main mystery and it did its job. Given how well researched The Knick seemed to be, I wonder if the supermarket layout stuff…