Big fan of the first Bay Transformers flick, I kinda dig the whole "boy and his car" angle - it does ground the flick although it is sorta "ET with a transforming robot" - and there is a lot of different plots coming together in the first hour before as we only get a few glimpses of whatever the hell the space alien…

"It could be a bomb!"
"That's highly improbable, Alfred."

"We're outta belts, eh?"

Agreed. It's hard for me to actively dislike a film that has Emma Stone in it, has Tommy Guns being shot, and Sean Penn saying " It's like they say, 'All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.'"

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Am I the only one who read this headline and thought it would be entirely about Chris Pratt trying to make cam bootlegs of blockbusters at big city multiplex and the wacky misadventures that causes? Completely different from the Sienfeld episode about that, I assure you.

Re purposed MCU film asset alert! That battering ram that attacked the safe house cabin is the same that punched in Fury's window in "Winter Solider".

I still think Chuck is straight-up masterminding the whole firm from his hidey hole, I kinda doubt his emergency phone call to put the breaks on Jimmy getting a job was a one-off with Hamlin. That was just an "in case of emergency, break glass" option.

Chuck is Emperor Palpatine, scheming on his darkened isolated throne, and Hamlin is Darth Vader having to carry out his Master's will. Dunno who is the Wicket the Ewok analogue yet.

I'm sure Sean will join the crew and they'll just flat-out ignore the fact he's supposed to be a teenager. Like how they ignore gravity and physics.

Barbra at least is wearing sexier outfits and has that whole 10 AM still loaded thing going on.

Halfway through the pilot, Jack kicks down the door and yells "Dammit, Chole! I've got Russian Counter-Intelligence Operatives on my tail, I need an exit!" Rajskub's lawyer character, now revealed to be Chole undercover, boots up her laptop tells the Girlfriend Experience lady to go experience somewhere else. Title…

Sasha freaking out and basically going all PTSD postal doesn't ring true? It's a freakin Zombie Apocalypse! People are going to lose their shit at random intervals while the person who currently isn't losing their shit tries to hold them back. It's a rule.

He was at least pretty much scary the whole time and genuinely menacing. And Issacs was amazing and I loved his exit because it was totally unexpected. It establishes that Vader and Sheev are that scary that he doesn't want to deal with it. also I thought it was an interesting move to steal from the serialized…

Haven't seen either Gracepoint or Broadchurch. If I decide to watch Gracepoint instead will AV Club block my ISP?

Simpsons doing continuity references in episodes that aren't specifically sequels does seem odd. I liked it, but odd.

I actually liked the rather dainty and cutesy way she unloaded her BFG on the pile. Kinda like "Tee hee, I'm just a girl!" to play to the new guys.

The show sticks fairly close to the comic in the grand story arc so, yeah, this is actually a huge moment in the story. That's why last week was such a walking slog episode because after this point, the chances of having an entire walking episode dips considerably. Hell, change the title to just "Dead" at this…

"No jobs! Freelance! Best thing in the world for a kid your age. You bring me some more pictures of that newspaper-selling clown, maybe I'll take 'em off your hands. But I never said you have a job. Meat! I'll send you a nice box of Christmas meat. It's the best I can do - get out of here. Bring me more photos."

I thought an interesting interpretation as to how damn powerful Luke Skywalker is in the Force izzat he gets nipped by the drone, complains, takes a deep breath, covers his eyes, and immediately proceeds to block each one. Takes him about 15 seconds. They show Padawans training with remotes in "Clones" and they…