Oh, nobody is claiming that this wasn’t a net positive development for the show: just pointing out that CBS’ choice to abandon it showed they aren’t really in the genre business.

S1 of Evil was great but once it got off CBS and got to say fuck, it became INCREDIBLE. 

the supernatural-tinged Evil was conspicuously shuffled off the network to Paramount+ for its second season.

It’s cute, and I like it.

A lot of stories about the early days of TV show that without some lucky breaks, there would be very few classic shows that we could still see. There is the story about Terry Jones getting the call from a friend at the BBC saying “Hey, they are going to erase and reuse the tapes for the first two Monty Python series,…

they chose to shoot on film for practical reasons, so they could produce the show in California at a time when nearly all primetime network television was being broadcast live out of studios in New York. That one business decision paid lasting dividends, allowing for lucrative syndication deals for the I Love Lucy…

I laughed for 30 seconds straight.  My wife thought I had finally broken.  Fucking hilarious and twisted.  I was hoping when they did the flash-forward that Lionel would still be blue LOL.

I’m surprised that no one has discussed that the show follows, or rather is a commentary upon, the narrative arc being a retelling of the first two Godfather movies through the lens of the Church being the mafia, with the population giving them “protection” money but in the sense that the Gemstones protect their…

With assistant editor Sandie Pendleton.

With George Pickett as production manager.

Goddamn it I was gonna make that joke.  He needs to ask his producer James Longstreet to help support the offensive I mean series.

Ted Turner was oddly on hand as well, and likewise found a second life in media.

It’s a little-known fact that Stonewall Jackson was the cinematographer on The Wizard of Oz.

Good for Jeb Stuart, finding a new career. I figured he was finished after that whole debacle with his cavalry at the first day of Gettysburg.

where Kory needs to be somewhat naive and trusting but with a fiery temper triggered when she feels wronged or feels her friends are imperiled.

Yeah people forget Carlton was an asshole for most of the first season. Alfonso Riberio just added that endearing goofiness that made the writers change course. Karyn Parsons even confirmed it in an interview.

Yeah seriously he was really good as Hawk.

I knew I recognized him from somewhere!

Came here to say this. Not an especially strong cast overall, but he was a major stand-out either way.

The most passive-aggressive French resistance ever.