Look, we know he’s a terrible human being now, and it’s become all of the rage to say “Oh, Bill Cosby was never funny”... but, c’mon. There’s no way Bill Cosby Himself doesn’t make this list.

..it’s using Imperial technology to change people’s morality and personalities is beyond messed up...

Basically you have two non-historians (in an academic sense) writing books about H.H. Holmes and disagreeing, because the records about him are poor and largely consist of newspaper reports in an era when newspapers were pretty sensationalistic. In any rate, I always preferred the part of Larson’s book about the White…

No, dumb fan service would have been if Cassian has been nearly injured while working in the prison and quipped “These things will be the death of me” and THEN they have the post-credit scene of the parts being built into the Death Star.

I wonder if Leia ended up being the daughter Mon never had. 

This was a pretty grim one, but torture consisting of the worst sound in the world was pretty inventive, and the whole episode really gassed up Dedra’s evil levels. Getting to know her as disciplined and competent and overcoming some office-politics odds while waiting for this kind of shoe to drop is just good…

Loved the little nod to the original Star Wars as Bix’s torture started - the quick pan-down following the door closing and the focus on boots walking away.

But that’s an insanely low bar to clear. Moffat had some stellar individual episodes, but never wove together any sort of coherent arc that wasn’t some puzzlebox nonsense. Chibnall just.. look, it was an absolute mess. Chasing the fun with no sense of how that fun needs to be structured to make sense.

The complaint about the show’s graphic depiction of labor is strange. House of the Dragon, like Game of Thrones, is a show where a lot of violent things happen. Unlike Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon is to a significant extent a show about women. The central conflict on the show is between two women, with a third…

“Hahaha. For adults? Like?”

It’s not “mature” in the way it seems like you’re expecting. It’s just that Andor’s set pieces are intensely character-driven, instead of special effects surrounding paper-thin plots and fanservice. And it makes the Star Wars universe feel lived in rather than just looking that way.

I think “mature” just means we’ll shot, written, directed, and acted in this case.

I don’t know your definition of ‘dark’ sci-fi, but if you’re leaning in the ‘gritty’ Blade Runner direction, Andor is in fact not that, and why I feel it’s refreshing not just for Star Wars but the current cyberpunk-obsessed grimdark sci-fi landscape in general. Andor is an ‘adult’ ‘mature’ show insofar as it...…

I have to ask who really wants Star Wars for adults? I feel like there are plenty of other dark sci-fi fantasy franchises “for adults”.

This show is f-cking awesome.

A highly underrated part of the original Star Wars trilogy is the literal ‘Wars’ part of the title and its execution within the series. Regardless of all the derring-do and space wizards, the battles in the OT felt grounded, tense and cribbed well from history. The comms chatter and WW2…

Why is Mon Mothma married to Perrin? Why does she have such an ungrateful child? Hopefully her Leida’s rebellious streak can lead to an arc to be on her mother’s side.