Curious, did the regular (non-roadshow, non-70 mm) version have an intermission? I only saw the roadshow version, which had the intermission and recap you mention.

The intermission was actually part of the movie (the fake trailers - unless your theater did it differently). It was actually pretty great to see people get up and treat it like a real intermission, though there was no way I was going to miss out on the likes of Edgar Wright's "Don't," "Thanksgiving," etc…

A conversation I had with my wife 2 weeks ago: "Oh, they have the IT Crowd complete series on DVD." Her: "But you can watch it whenever you want on Netflix."

Centuries ago they had to destroy the giant Pyramid and Statue of Liberty standing behind it because it looked too weird.

Like 100% the problem.

With American Gods it could keep going even after adapting the book because the premise is so rich. (When I read that book, it honestly felt more like the first book in a long series anyway.) You're right, Sirens would work best as a miniseries. If it was an ongoing series it could still be very good, though it might…

I'm worried about the possibility that this might be a network show. Yes, it could still be great…but I would rather it go to a more risk-taking, R-rated place like Starz, HBO, etc.

Even as a child, when this film came on TV I knew it was some kind of genuine evil that had been unleashed upon the world and I wanted to get away as quickly as possible.

I forgot about that one too. And I watched it. I seem to recall it was…OK? I don't really remember.

You are forgetting Slapstick of Another Kind. That is…please, please forget Slapstick of Another Kind.

One of the things I loved about "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp" was the incessant and unnecessary origins of everything from the film. "Oh, that song from the movie? There's an origin for that too."

Still odd that if you want to catch up on shows like Broad City, Nathan for You, Review, Another Period, etc., your best bet is the Internet, not the channel they were made for.

Me too.

I couldn't make it through the first episode, but I agree. It was also edited within an inch of its life, so all the beats were off, which made the sudden abrupt turns into "now for an emotional moment" all the more awkward and cloying. @midnight is surely also heavily edited, but it feels like it has a natural rhythm.

I still can't get over how cable channels - not just CC - tend to ignore their stores of original content, take their top-rated show and just play it all day long.

That's a really thoughtful comparison. Thanks for that.

His upcoming adaptation of Jeff Vandermeer's "Annihilation" is my most anticipated SF film of this year, even more so than Blade Runner 2049 - mainly because the source novel is so good.

Incidentally, Katie wrote a good article and I'm not even talking about her article at this point.

So do people now believe George Romero invented the idea of the dead rising from the grave? Is that what we're talking about? I'm so confused.

I'm pretty sure that tall guy in the Tourneur film was a corpse. Did you see his eyes? Pretty creepy stuff.