I thought they did set up the dad as being a bit more engaged, about going from hate watching the vlog to following up on her tips and shaming one of the moms for not baking funeral goods.

I have the digital copy of the film with a bunch of special features but they allude to commentary tracks that don’t actually exist for me. Weirdly they have the whole flash mob thing that seems to last about four minutes and allude to explaining the cuts—but there was nothing about the Lively stuff, which I think…

My issue with the “Marvel carefully plans stuff” theory is when they’ve shot new post-credits footage rather than repurposing scenes in later movies,  a lot of the time they’re setting up statuses quo that they ultimately don’t go with.  The idea that Avengers formation might be conditional, Stellan Skarsgaard’s…

I have wondered how much intentionality and planning out actually is going with this show, like when throwaway lines retroactively have either played major puzzle pieces or when the magic panda implicitly did become an actual creature on screen when it was probably intended as some dumb Jason goofball aside  

Pretzels were a weirdly big deal in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s pilot and suddenly made a huge reappearance in the current/final season.

Some people still seem to think Sorry to Bother is in the running for best original screenplay at least?

Other reviewers have said it was a riff on some Madonna track I’m not familiar with, I personally got some Lorde vibes and a Jessie Ware track “If You’re Never Gonna Move” / “110%” with the sinister vocoder distortion.

I got really curious about that sentence that implied The Good Place was NBC’s highest rated sitcom, and I wasn’t sure what that meant.

I thought it was such a weird touch that they spelled out that the company is shutting down for at least a month (if not months) but the employees are specifically only getting two weeks of paid leave and free transportation.

From the promo image alone I figured they were going for a Dream Daddy riff, of having fit 20-something Asian guy wearing an infant carrier. Disappointing if it turns out that show doesn’t use him more though.

The parameters are kind of fuzzy, did you mean a rom-com where the leads end up deciding not to get together but remain friends, or where the emphasis is mostly on the lead deciding their friendships along the way are more important than pursuing a romance?

Twilight was her first big role, and surprisingly one I’ve never seen, but it’s apparently her third.

I had a theory the older brother was gay and overcompensating with his straight horndoggedness, and I feel like that still comes closer to reading through the film than any of the autism content which I never quite realized.

I’m still not even sure which MI movie I’ve missed if any in the middle, and I wonder if adoring Thandie Newton now will make me think more positively of MI2 if I went back to it now, but I thought Rebecca Ferguson was really compelling in whichever last one just came out. I’m a little worried the magic will be lost…

I dug Last Jedi but I feel like Canto Bite seemed like it had so much cooler potential based on some of the behind the scenes material they released than what ended up in the film. The idea of hiding a musical number in the middle of the film to introduce the Codebreaker, actually letting Finn and Rose play dress up…

I thought he got the short end of the stick too, considering how he was maybe one of two (still) human characters who we saw be remotely decent to the hosts last season and thus vaguely likable, it was disappointing he got about one speaking line? That said, I am pleased he wasn’t killed off screen.

I listened to the Heathers musical one time and then pretty much immediately got a bunch of the songs stuck in my head. I missed the boat when it came to ever watching the original movie but I feel like the musical from a handful of years ago made some smart choices by keeping it a period piece but still making it a…

That sounds charming, do you have a bit more context? Maybe the band secretly is on top of their bandcamp page or something.

Metropolis does have a track titled “Sincerely, Jane” but I sort of assumed that was more a semi-autobiographical shift from the narrative. Then I got a little confused when I think the video for Tightrope implied there was a (time traveling?) character named Janelle Monae (separate from her?) in an asylum(?) and I…

I absolutely adore her but I’m curious if anyone has been tracking the narrative from Metropolis through Dirty Computer and if it makes any sense at all? I’ve noticed some recurring names but I don’t really see a pattern to the sequence of songs or when new concepts or characters get introduced.