“First, Stalin died in 1953. Unless Archer’s reset the timeline back quite a few decades, “Hans” in question is most definitely more than she appears.”

I’m given hope by some of the other subtle things dropped into the episode - for instance, of COURSE it’s the Six Million Dollar Man figure that dropped Archer into her game room. Sure, it’s an exoskeleton rather than a rebuilt Bionic Man, but still.

This was an excellent episode. I loved the many callbacks--the voicemail prank, yes, but especially the “you maniacs...” at the end, which is not only a callback (homage?) to the obvious, but also something Krieger has explicitly done before. And I thought Lana sounded better this episode, which alleviates any worries…

I have seen ‘The Future’. It was murder.

Has the Guy Ritchie version of Holmes lived so vividly in the popular imagination that violent altercations are considered more vital to Holmesian characters than deductive powers?

It’s a book series. Not saying that negates your point about existing IP, but there are 6 books in the series and they were published beginning in 2007 to decent YA acclaim. But that’s why this movie is attached to the Sherlock IP.

Presumably “one-time” is meant as “in the past” rather than an actual tally.

Right, but he’s still a gullible, unquestioning shitburg that doesn’t know when he’s being played, and that can be just as dangerous with a large enough audience.

I mean, the damage is already done. He’s a grown ass adult with a huge platform and made baseless conspiracy theory accusations that the far right is gobbling up.  Fuck his apology 

“The artist has become, at 68, a generous and humane elder statesman of rock.” That statement doesn’t say he has always been a humane elder statesman of rock. But that at age 68 he is now that.

Honestly, Rapp’s ‘Stamets’ is the best character on that, otherwise, trainwreck of a show.

Yes. Paul mixes with the browns and wages Jihad on the power establishment, with the grotesque Baron Harkonnen being a thinly veiled jab at Trump.

I assume you’ve never read the books.

You don’t like anything do you?

Bizarre reasoning in so many different ways:

Trans people, of course, famously taking advantage of society’s permissive attitude toward them.

I still don’t understand what TERFs’ objective is. Do they legitimately perceive a threat from trans women (either direct physical threats, or a more abstract threat to societal stability), or is it just a way for them to have a group that they can oppress the way men oppress women? I’m just spitballing here, because…

Shes no Eva Green that’s for sure

I liked the original, but fucking hated City of Angels.

I wonder how much of the original was just in how great the cast was?

Then again, Dormer, Bishe and Rory Kinnear were really not done any favors in this one...

Counterpoint: having read Highsmith, watched both films, Damon is insufferable and the way he plays the character he wouldn’t last two chapters under Ms P.’s pen. Hoffman isn’t enough to save this mess. The welcome return of the sexual tension (which could never have been put to screen in 1960, and certainly not with…