Lyonne looked fantastic, came straight out of the Phantom Zone with that outfit, and contoured like a knife.

I could have listened to that momologue the whole show. Best of the season. She definitely should come back.

Thank you for your reviews. Natasha Lyonne was so good in this final episode and showed me why I loved the first season of “Russian Doll” in spite of a tired premise. As good as Anya Taylor-Joy in last year’s finale. I hope we will see them again next year. I liked this season overall. Still a big fan of the show and…

A shame she got overshadowed by all the notable departures, because goddamn, I don’t think there’s been a host that fit in so seamlessly in a long while - not even Mulaney. You’d think there wasn’t a host at all from how Natasha carried herself.

Aidy got her goodbye at the end of Future Trends, I guess. “In: leaving your dream job of 10 years”

While it was really sweet for SNL to give such goodbyes to both McKinnon and Davidson, it did kind of make it stand out that Bryant or Mooney didn’t get a similar emotional moment. Not that it was required, but still. On the positive side, I didn’t expect Davidson to have such a touching farewell, although writing…

Saw “Ishtar” in the theatre. I think we knew it was being panned but my friend and I thought it looked funny. So we saw it and liked it. I don’t remember much about it but I remember not understanding what the fuss was about.

I was just reflecting that I started reading the online avclub in earnest back in 2006, when Rabin launched “My Year of Flops” using the exact quote included in the article above (he considered Elizabethtown a fiasco, incidentally). I guess the site has lapped itself?

Paul Williams gave a pretty funny interview around the movie’s release, about trying to write the bad songs for the characters.   He was worried that since they came so easily for Ishtar, maybe he’d always been writing bad songs....

I’ve always liked the Hope/Crosby Road genre. I liked Road to El Dorado when it came out as well.

*Lots* of critics at the time couldn't figure out why the Predator was Predator-ing. Predator 2 ended up really having to spell it out. 

I agree with Barr with respect to Ebert’s writing and loved reading him up until his death. However, he had weird blind spots or gaps in either knowledge or imagination when it came to some films, like your Predator example.

Also, well, the onslaught of puberty was always an inevitability and Stranger Things wasn’t the only thing hit by COVID delays. This one’s really just real life being a pain in the ass, at some point you’ve just got to shrug and let it go.

Yo, are you just ripping off Nathan Rabin’s My World of Flops? Even down to using referencing the Elizabethtown V.O. observation...

My hope is that Max floating means she is getting powers like Eleven. The series went on for too long with only one character with superpowers. You had Dustin rocking the wrist-rocket in season one and Steve with a Bat in two, but they really needed an additional magic-user in the party dealing damage so they aren’t…

I’m just hoping Hopper finds Barb in Russia and brings her back with him.

Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown are both 18, Caleb McLaughlin is the oldest actor of the “kids” at 21, take a year off of everyone to account for filming dates vs. release, it’s fine.

I lost interest a little bit each season, now because of the break I find myself not super interested. I know Covid was at fault, I just hope others aren’t loosing interest.

There’s a film called Now and Then starring Yellowjackets star Christina Ricci. 

“At no fault of Millie Bobby Brown’s, Hawkins’ former Eggo-eating savior has been a one-note nightmare for much of the series—playing out a wild-child-enters-society storyline that saw her sci-fi powers routinely double in strength”