The point about the show slipping into sappy is a good one. I watched the first two episodes so far, and the end of the second episode is horrific. That Gordon wrote a sappy ending for the episode is totally in character, but it was terrible and the previous scene was so much more full of life. Not to mention…

Or if he’s willing to go to these lengths — just build a fence around the pool. The officer who responded deliberately overlooked it, so it probably is not in the report, and they’re not going to pull out all the investigative stops over an accidental death.

Exactly this -- if compliance with the law in the present is enough to thwart the extortion, then simply putting up a fence will do it.  He can tear down the fence once the series is in production if he wants to.

I gave up on the show after they killed him off. Everyone tells me that I should watch the rest of it, but I’m seeing in this thread that there are a lot more Doakes stans out there so I feel like I made the right choice.

Would it be too much to ask for some basic factual information? Is the season airing Netflix-style all at once or is it going to be doing weekly drops? I appreciate that I can just google this information, but this seems like basic stuff that should just be dumped into the introduction (or the tail end).

The new episodes seem to be of reasonable quality, but they seem to air at completely random times, with little to no fanfare, seemingly skipping weeks at a time and then having a bunch show up. It might be that my Tivo is doing something wacky, but in general it is hard to stay invested in this show when you have no…

The backwards squirrel one sticks in my mind because it might be the last one that I read. Even then my thought was just that any person in that situation would just say, “oh, I guess I was mistaken about the squirrel, but the rest of my story is still accurate since nothing actually hinges on the directionality of…

The ambiguous ending ...

They totally stole my idea — I pitched the sequel as titled “Move Fast And Break Things” and it would cover in parallel the seemingly harmless decisions about sharing data with third parties during Facebook’s infancy and the disastrous consequences of those deals as they came to light after Facebook’s growth.

This seems like a complicated way of doing it -- couldn’t they just have removed the pencil while the pencil was out of the frame?  Anything from a grabber arm to a guy under the table reaching up would have been sufficient to achieve the same effect, without having to do any stitching, and in the worst case there’s…

The problem here is that I’ll be watching Nick Fury like Crispin Glover in Hot Tub Time Machine, waiting for him to lose that eye.

When I saw the movie in the theater, I assumed it was gold, and that we were just seeing the reflected light. It didn’t occur to me that there was a mystery or that it mattered at all, and I still enjoyed the movie immensely. It wasn’t until much later that I became aware of fan theories around it, and it seemed…

I had posted a link to the particular youtube video referenced which somehow got removed from the post.

That doesn’t seem accurate — I just watched the video out of curiosity. At ~1:08 you can see the only negative reaction, a woman sitting behind someone who is applauding shakes her head and mutters something. At ~1:10 you can literally see Jack Nicholson not only applauding, but giving a standing ovation and whistling.

According to wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kove, he does in fact make a cameo in “Mercy”

This is ridiculous. Anyone who has interacted with multiple Japanese people knows that there is absolutely no uniformity in this, and that even the tradition of sushi is much newer than people like to think. The ability to freeze fish in order to purge it of parasites is relatively recent, and before then either…

Not just the rights, but the production costs as well, according to the article.

My mind briefly broke because I kept looking for General Zod in the list, because for some reason my subconscious said he was there.

There should really be an Oscar category for “retrospective” Best Picture. See how things have aged after some time period (25 years, maybe, so we can re-litigate 1994).  I see a lot of love here for Forrest Gump, but in all seriousness, have you or anyone you know watched that movie again since you first saw it back…

I was naive enough to still believe in the show up until about five minutes into the finale, when I started thinking, hey, they’re not really making an effort to explain anything.  I think at that point I realized that I knew this for about half of the last season, but still had some forlorn hope.  Same thing happened…