Why can’t “Cloverfield” just be a way to denote a movie in an anthology series? The reused designs or similar elements are just things that they carry across as part of the series like in Final Fantasy. It’s not like anyone watched The Twilight Zone and wondered how all the episodes were connected. The design of a…

Nobody is upset that he said it. People are commenting on it because it looks like he actually had to be told to say it. It’s like reminding a child to say “please” and “thank you,” except the child is 70 and shouldn’t have to be told these things.

Yes, he could control his leaping. Once he figured that out he went back and saved Al’s marriage then just continued leaping and helping people. More abrupt than anything. But the basic idea was that he could have gone home whenever he wanted and chose not to.

He’s old enough to say that, right? He’s over 18? What if I was like, ‘He’s hot!’ and he’s 15?’

Derren Brown’s stuff can actually be quite interesting and I’m curious to know if you looked him up or what he does at all before writing this article, especially since you don’t once note that he’s already done this in his Pushed to the Edge special from 2016. You jumped pretty quickly to offense and outrage based on…

I enjoyed the episode (minus the 10 minute “Breaking News” piece about Trump visiting Florida) but it did feel a bit rushed. I wonder if it would have been better if they spread those events out over the last few episodes, have Rebecca go to prison and then do the 8 month time skip. Might have been a bit smoother.

One minor correction: “You Stupid Bitch” did show up again prior to the second season finale. The Santa Ana Winds sang part of it to Rebecca after she kissed Nathaniel in the elevator.

I don’t particularly understand modern or performance art but I’m going to power through that and say this seems more like lazy self-promotion than an actual artistic statement. It feels like the attention is on Emma. Any other message that’s supposed to be there seems muddled, if it’s even present. Perhaps it’s just…

I concede that not every YouTuber is in it for clicks and views. I’m sure there are plenty who genuinely give a damn. But it doesn’t change the fact that far too many of them are just complaining because it gets them attention. Maybe they can’t monetize those videos but they might serve to get other people watching…

Maybe next season Michael gets put in charge of the group as they collaborate on a new “Good Place” as a natural extension of the whole idea that humans can torment humans better than any demon. They could use that to explore some of what you mention. How does the group handle having to torment a group of people in…

Has Michael been torturing people for millennia, though? “The Good Place” was his first big thing and he settled on that because standard torture didn’t really seem to interest him that much. It looked like he just worked in an office prior to that and was always a little meeker than the average Bad Place staffer.…

I’m okay with the idea that Wakandans are out in the world, going to universities and bringing back some technology and that kind of thing. The impression I got, at least in the MCU, is that Wakanda is known and a rich country but that they’ve given the world the impression that they’re just not that advanced…

I’m really concerned they’re turning Wakanda into a Mary Suetopia. Admittedly sometimes it could be in the comics but my hope is that the MCU avoids that. I know that Vibranium has made them wealthy and allowed them to advance quickly but it feels like they’re going overboard. It would be far more interesting to see…

YouTubers aren’t standing up for anyone. They just hopped aboard the outrage train and started shoveling coal into the furnace. They’re in it to get clicks and make money and they’re exploiting your emotional reactions to do so. A video furiously bashing EA is going to draw more eyeballs than a measured discussion of…

Anyone else terrified of giving kudos to a guy because next week he might be accused of something horrible?

What exactly does Mo’Nique think she’s accomplishing with all this? It’s kind of just making her seem arrogant and petty. There’s nothing wrong with thinking you deserve more than what you’re being offered but unless they were being openly disrespectful just politely decline and move on. Posting videos about all your…

I don’t know that I’d like Black Lightning to cross over with the other shows. The Arrowverse shows have a bit of a campiness to them that allow them to lean into the ridiculous a bit more, which wasn’t something I got from Black Lightning. I think they would clash tonally.

Sara Gilbert seems to have a lot of creative control and may genuinely believe the show can tackle issues that other shows aren’t. Laurie Metcalfe still does a fair amount of TV work, notably as Sheldon’s mom on The Big Bang Theory. I suspect she, along with John Goodman and Sarah Chalke, are doing it for Sara and…

Agreed. After all, wasn’t one of the things that made Roseanne stand out the fact that it more closely resembled a real family than what was normally shown on TV? So it was popular because people related to it and it wasn’t an escape from reality. Seems like complaining that the show is going to deal with real life is…

Awful lot of people getting sucked into MMOs/RPGs lately. I wonder how different they are from each other because, despite the general premise of “person transported to fantasy world” having been around forever, they’re all starting to seem pretty derivative. I guess SAO (which was itself somewhat derivative of…