Cameron Espisito did an interesting set of recaps over at Vulture for the first season, but that didn’t continue through the second season. It feels like covid (or HBO’s non-existent marketing) killed the momentum of the show. The first season was quite buzzy at the time, and the second completely ignored.

This is a cozy little show, but does illustrate a common plotting issue in the British six-episode season model - it really annoyed me that the ex-boyfriend character in the second season was talked about as being bad for Rose, but we’re only ever shown him to be a pretty decent guy. Gentleman Jack has this same…

This comment made me scroll through the list of wide releases from 1994. While any random year is obviously going to have great films, 1994 sure seems weaker than most.

I enjoyed how HBO Max released Our Flag Means Death with a weekly release of multiple episodes, which syncs up better with how I watch TV anyway (taking in a couple episodes of the same show in an evening, but then watching a different show the next day to mix it up).

I’ve never listened to Adnan Virk’s Cinephile podcast, but I’ve always been intrigued by this one episode description: “Jon Hamm: Great actor or Great role?”

Acast went from the company I only ever heard of because of My Dad Wrote a Porno to gobbling up most of my podcast feed in the past 6 months.

To be fair, the bulk of Ricky’s standup material is based on belittling groups he doesn’t understand. How many specials did he get out of berating religious folks? He was bound to find a new target eventually.

Wasn’t there some chatter around the release of Cars 3 about whether or not some character in the movie was the love child of Lightning McQueen and the twins from the first Cars? Hence, why Cars 2 sucked so hard - not enough hot car-on-car action.

I guess this is news, but Bob has told this same story on multiple podcasts over the years. Whatever the opposite of “breaking news” is, this is it.

And I’m glad Werner isn’t being treated as completely forgotten after his death in season 4. He was a great character, and this was a clever way of making a callback.

American Vandal was so good, I was immediately on board with this. That is until I got to “premieres on Paramount+”
... and I’m out.

I give James Corden a pass for two reasons: Gavin & Stacey was delightful, and writing this exchange in The Wrong Mans:

Free advice for the Academy: You know how millions of non-football fans watch the Super Bowl every year for just the friggin’ commercials? Work with the studios so major summer tentpoles are dropping trailers all night long during the Oscars. Viewership would jump dramatically if the audience was getting first looks…

I’d put forth that Nic Pizzolatto’s finest work of the last five years was his appearance on Andy Daly’s podcast Bonanas for Bonanza. He was extremely well versed in Daly’s canon, and it was amazing.

This Country is hands down one of my favorite comedies of the last decade, but I have little faith that its style will translate well to an American audience. If they maintain the style of the original, they’re asking a network tv audience to sit down for 22 minutes and watch very little plot happen. Personally, I…

Pokemon looked all the nested subtitles in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and said, “Hold my beer.”

Is Shining Vale supposed to be Starz’ take on CBS’ take on BBC1's Ghosts?

Not even sure how I feel about the content of this episode. I just couldn’t get over that animation style. Not my cup of tea, being ocularly assaulted like that.

...only known as the mousetoothed date from Fleabag season 1.

Now I haven’t seen The Lost Daughter, but is Jesse Buckley doing a motion capture CGI character? The screengrab is unsettling.