Literally, too many people requesting numbers and not enough space at the exchange to accommodate them. Back in the pre digital, pre solid state days, a telephone exchange was a massive building filled with countless mechanical switching mechanisms, one literally corresponding to each number. Sometimes, there…

Safe sex with a new partner during the pandemic is possible, but only if you follow a very strict protocol:

I think you might have glossed over the part of the write-up that talked about how these movies were basically feature length sitcom episodes and hyper-realism was never part of their appeal.

No, many people had private lines. They were just a solution for when demand outstripped the capacity of the system.

I don’t think you were reading the same A.V. Club reviews I was. The A.V. Club, in it’s heydey, was a bastion of uncompromising reviews, even of shows the critics were “fans” of. That’s why a “B” here would be an “A” most other places, and an “A” meant something was an essential piece of pop culture.

And a story where a faceless hoard of mindless zombies kills literally everyone the audience cares about after multiple seasons/books wouldn’t be entertaining at all.

That one was good too, as was Scorsese’s little horror flick from Season 1 starring Sam Waterston, which I forgot to mention.

I’m not the only one more excited at the prospect of a continuing Benoit Blanc cinematic universe than the Italian loafers-clad trudge of the Bond franchise, right?

Yeah, I didn’t really delve into season two in my list of faves, though there are a few. Star power dipped slightly (perhaps that’s to be expected), but there were still some stand-outs (like the Zemeckis directed episode with Lloyd). Other ones I recall fondly:

Yeah, God buried it under a sandstorm once already, it’s not like another one (or an earthquake, or a flood, a volcano, etc.) couldn’t just cover it up again.

Counterpoint: Of the three classic Indy movies, Temple of Doom is the only one wherein Indy’s actions are really of any consequence. He frees the kids from slave labor and returns the protective idol to the village, likely ending the famine it has endured.

Long runs can help to round out characters, but it’s hardly determinative. Mad Men, which ran for about 92 episodes, featured characters so multidimensional that they practically seemed like real, living people by the end of the series. The original Hawaii Five-O ran for 279 episodes, and despite being very well…

There were some solid episodes from the original run. “The Mission,” directed by Spielberg and starring Kevin Costner, Kiefer Sutherland, and Anthony LaPaglia, among others, is a particularly memorable one. So was “The Amazing Falsworth,” which was directed by Peter Hyams and starred Gregory Hines and Richard Masur,…

Here’s a thought: Disney has more money than God. Well, probably not literally that much. But at least as much as the Vatican. They made a decent profit on Rise of Skywalker. Not as much as before, but enough to cover costs. So why not simply lock it away in their vaunted “Disney Vault,” declare it non-cannon, and…

As much as Picard was the center of Next Gen, the strength of that ensemble can’t really be overstated...

At least Jaws 4: The Revenge (and you can’t forget that, because it’s telling you right out of the gate that this is a movie about a great white shark that wants revenge on the Brody family) spawned my favorite Michael Caine quote:

Don’t you mean Indy 4: Here’s LaBeouf!

I started looking at the numbers. Sean Connery was a mere 59 when he portrayed “cantankerous old Dad” in Last Crusade. Three years prior, he starred in Never Say Never Again, in which an explicit theme was, “Hey, isn’t he really getting to old for this?” Naturally, the answer was, “No! Of course not!” But they still…

Yeah, well Spielberg didn’t exactly bring the old “magic” last time so who knows? As far as (1) Lucas isn’t involved in the story/scripting process and (2) they manage to keep JJ Abrams from somehow involving himself in this, it might turn out semi-decent.

It’s not tangentially related. It’s directly related.