You really should, especially if you’re also a fan of The Prisoner.

Whenever the topic of these long blockbusters comes up, or the idea of high quality serialized television, I always think of Erich Von Stroheim and Greed. Stroheim insisted that his movie could not be made any shorter than 6 hours, and genuinely believed that people would sit and watch the full 8 hour version. In the…

Thank you thank you thank you.

If they did it on purpose, it was a terrible decision to make. As somebody noted, if they spent as much time and effort on this episode as has been purported, then it’s gotta suck for the actors, stuntpeople and crew that the cinematographer and director made something purposefully incoherent. The Descent? Dark and…

*terrible and cost-effective.

Which is fine in small doses (the Omaha Beach sequence in Saving Private Ryan is pretty short IIRC.) Spread over an hourlong episode, it just becomes tiresome, because if you can’t tell what you’re looking at it’s harder to care. 

There’s a thing called the car radio test. Once you’re done mixing a song you listen to it on the cheapest, shittiest speakers imaginable because that’s how most people will hear it. If it still sounds good, you’re gold.

“I know it wasn’t too dark because I shot it.”

I heard on a podcast that during shooting, Sean Astin asked the Helm’s Deep cinematographer Andrew Lesnie where the light was coming from, and Lesnie said “the same place as the music.”

Your comment is awesome! YOu’ll probably never see this because I’m in the greys, but thank you. All the people upthread who are complaining that he got killed so quickly, and oh what will they do without the precious night king? are idiots. Cersei was always more interesting. It’s like we’re not even watching the…

I loved how Rocket called Mantis “the chick with the antennas”. She’s on his team and he doesn’t even know her name.

See also having a nameless man in therapy talk about his gay date and not allowing Valkyrie to kiss a girl. Insert NotLikeThis.gif

No but my 29 year old ass has an anxiety disorder!!!!!! How do you enjoy attempting to antagonize people on Deadspin for little to no reason basically every day?

Remember how good the battle of Hardhome was... because you could see the battle of Hardhome.  This was like the golden age of radio.

You misspelled meth twice.

I saw Black Summer and your reference flew completely over my head. And now that I (finally) got it, I can’t help but laugh. My Gods was that show stupid. It was fun (in parts), but the decisions those characters made are just moronic.

My god, he was pretty when he was young.

I’m so disappointed in black summer, something about these recent shows that have popped up on Netflix just makes me wonder how Reed Hastings has such a terrible management style that anybody can be replaced if they don’t produce (hopefully it applies to him one day), but what is produced is terrible.

The White Walkers via the dead of Winterfell.