I don’t understand why this is even controversial. It’s an adaptation of something that already existed before Gerwig sat down to write it. She used several characters that previously existed she did not create. It’s an adaptation.

I feel we are living in the age of only mini-series. 8 episodes every other year just does not give one enough tv to watch new content.

To be fair, Rodgers got through his first five minutes of his Jeopardy hosting gig without tearing his Achilles tendon, so he did have more success there than he’s had at football recently.

So, Dave isn't a champion of black people, yet the same jokes he says are heard in every black barber by your own admission. How does that make any sense? Sounds like, for better or worse, he shares the same opinion as a lot of black people, which would make him a champion of black people.

I recently rewatched most of season 1 of the OC, and i forgot just how much happened in the TWENTY SEVEN episodes of that first season. It’d be like 3 or 4 seasons of TV now. I was actually kind of shocked that the wretched Oliver shows up in like ep 10 because they blew through so much plot i was convinced he didn’t…

As an example Season 8 of the Simpsons has WAY more than 8-10 fantastic episodes. That season would not have happened in an 8 every other year world.

It depends... Sitcoms can do okay with 20 episodes. Seinfeld (particularly in later seasons) had its share of misses, but generally it was more hits than misses. Ditto Cheers, both Newhart shows, many others that made it into syndication. Heck, something like The Addams Family or The Munsters, which were both…

“Shows were not canceled immediately after 8 episodes if the entire world did not watch twice. They were given time to grow an audience.“

USA’s Blue Sky era shows (Monk, Suits, Psych, Burn Notice) were, I believe, around 16 a season, which was good for this kind of thing.

Ehh I don’t know, most 20+ season shows do have a lot of episodes that are boring or unnecessary.  Rewatching 12 Monkeys recently makes me think that tight ~12 episode seasons are the way to go.

There’s simply no reasoning with a guy who thinks a Simpson joke is a badass line for an execution.

Le sigh. “Tundra” has a geographic location. Specifically it’s in the Arctic. The only part of the US that has tundra is Alaska. 

These are the Sheriff Tillman’s I know, I know, these are the Sheriff Tillman’s I know.

It appears everyone loves Heat, but Jesus I’ll always remember walking out of that movie with a friend of mine and my future wife...we were all very quiet trying to figure out why we weren’t all that floored with the overly long film. Then my friend gets into the car and starts driving, then says “Well, at least we…

Miami Vice at #2, but Last of the Mohicans all the way down at #10? Yeah, no.

The AVClub once called Lawrence of Arabia a white savior movie, so at least they’re consistent with misunderstanding movies they obviously have not seen.

Pretty much. Dances with Wolves overflows with contempt for white civilization. It begins with white people massacring each other and concludes with the hero fleeing white soldiers. John Dunbar / Dances with Wolves seeks a freedom that probably no longer exists because of the ever-increasing reach of the whites. The…

’The Insider’ is Mann’s best film. (Somebody had to do it. Might as well be me.)

There are undoubtedly people who hate this film

This is Exhibit 1025 of making what could be an interesting article into an instant no-go slog by turning it into a slide show.