It would serve Scott better to maybe make, you know, one good movie rather than this endless barrage of mediocre movies he’s been pushing out for decades.

If you can track down The Astrologer I think it’d fit the bill - https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/the-astrologer/1975s-the-astrologer-is-the-greatest-cult-classic/

Too little setup, too little time spent on consequences, and character motivations which were muddled by the compressed timeline. Dany’s descent made sense conceptually, but not two episodes after her selflessness in the fight against the white walkers, which itself seemed to go from the biggest existential threat the…

I’m going out on a limb here and stating that How To is the best show of the past 5 years. 5 years is an arbitrary number that could easily stretch back further. This show is capable of causing me to belly laugh, become introspective, cry and connect with that part of humanity that I often feel disconnected to. Often…

This show is just so great- I recently pitched it to a friend as “What ‘Pretend It’s a City’ wishes it was, but empathetic.” The first season paired with a rewatch of High Maintenance got me through those early dark and scary days in NY.

Bill Hader playing three vaguely Hungarian people who are maybe scamming Larry is such a batshit premise but goddamn does it work.

Laura Silverman dated Louis C.K. decades ago. And Jay Johnston also dated, a long time ago, national treasure Paget Brewster.

Dude, I was making a Mr Show reference. Nothing more...

This was news nine months ago. What the hell.

Not thrilled with his whole “reduce the population by half” schtick though.

Yeah I do. Cynical History uses citations and footnotes and leaves sources in the description and tends to focus on important details that are wrong in a film. I’m speaking from experience when I say he’s wrong, his Casino video is terrible. I’m friend with CH and he’s from Las Vegas, his dad is the history dude from…

I’ll watch Gemma Arterton in anything.

“Grigori Rasputin, Mata Hari, Gavrilo Princip, and even Vladimir Lenin”

Coincidentally, ‘clumsy regressive imperial nostalgic garbage trying to skate by with a thin layer of jokey irony’ would also be my review for the current UK government.

Well... Layer Cake is still terrific!

“It’s kind of sweet, in a sticking up for your friends sort of way—even if we’re not wholly convinced that wealthy, well-connected Emmy winners necessarily need such a full-throated defense at the moment”

Knauf gave an interview with the AV Club back in 2013 saying how the show would have ended: https://www.avclub.com/daniel-knauf-tells-us-his-plan-for-the-end-of-carnivale-1798236491

There was also talk of a comics version which I’d have loved to see, but sadly never happened.

Yeah, that’s obviously some “please let me have a career after this”-driven bullshit, given the sheer amount of show bible material he’s shared over the years for the four more seasons he had planned. (Supposedly, what got the show cancelled is he tried to get HBO to commit to the rest of the show up front.)

I wouldn’t call it a chore so much as just emotionally draining. I actually stopped watching Curb Your Enthusiasm at one point because I just couldn’t take the emotional sledge hammer of the Sunday night Sopranos/Six Feet Under/Curb block. After those first two shows, I couldn’t even watch a comedy because of all the…

I can’t even properly assess how I feel about the show as a whole, because the finale was just A+++, and it probably colors my whole memory of the show. Just thinking about it now I’m getting goosebumps. But the execution of that last scene—from the scenes to the song to freaking everything... just a masterclass on…