Has Tim Miller seen Aliens? A female-driven story, sure, but one that’s drenched in macho symbolism and fire power.

Man, I’d forgotten about the Shirley Manson terminator, who got to behave in a way we hadn’t seen from them before.

Man, I’d forgotten about the Shirley Manson terminator, who got to behave in a way we hadn’t seen from them before.

Getting Clarke on radio, as was suggested elsewhere in the comments, seems like it would have been more guaranteed, easier and have entailed less singing.

Could they use VHS copies of ‘80s movies as reference materials? Because if so, I am greenlighting this pitch right now.

Definitely Rockford, not Columbo. For one, he’s a sad sack like Rockford and secondly, he wouldn’t have the patience to pull off Columbo’s patented play-dumb-until-the-last-question move.

thinks a Hawaiian shirt with jeans and a blazer is the height of fashion

Not all librarians are reference librarians.

As ‘80s movies told us, some are ghosts instead.

Didn’t the question initially come up while they were in a house?

And then didn’t they drive through town and out to Weathertop?

They not only passed payphones in 1985, they likely passed the library itself.

Ansari needs to book a parallel tour where’s always playing across the street from Louis CK. Call it the “Hey, At Least I’m Not That Asshole Tour.”

Standing up for a very specific sort of nerd here:

They could have called the reference librarian at Hawkins Community Library and had Planck’s Constant in about 45 seconds.

Librarians: The World Wide Web before there was a World Wide Web.

I wonder this every year when we resubscribe to HBO Now, formerly for Game of Thrones, and in the future for ... I dunno, probably something, and I end up downloading the wrong app.

Parks and Rec where everybody is a member of a vast government conspiracy.

It’s a scene from The One Where The Guys Don’t Make Eye Contact.

WHY DOES HBO HAVE TWO DIRECT TO CONSUMER CHANNELS DISTINCT FROM THEIR APP FOR TELEVISION SUBSCRIBERS?

Holy crap, guys, get your digital strategy crap together. Neither the world, nor your corporate bottom line, benefits from the confusion between HBO Go, HBO Now and, soon, HBO Max.

Sour Patch Tropical is also great.

It would never occur to me that Sour Patch Kids are too intense for someone.

Also, good job getting to this before the LA Times can do this in one of their food ranking pieces.

‘80s nostalgia bit we haven’t see yet:

Mayor Kline returns as a televangelist, complete with an “I have sinned against you” tearful faux apology, and gets a full on Satanic panic going against those meddling kids and their Dungeons & Dragons. (True Detective can’t be the only show to play in that territory.)

Yeah, I think we’re going to get an extended Stephen King riff, with the “you can’t run away from your demons” theme banged on pretty hard and then, at either the 1/2 or 3/4 mark of the next season, they return to Hawkins from Maine.

I think once the books are finished by someone (I don’t think, at the rate he’s going, that we should hold out for A Dream of Spring written by Martin), there will be a quiet rediscovery of the books and articles proclaiming that everyone should “check out the Westeros you only thought you knew.”

Toss in some lavishly…