The Wire is more about reality, and people have to develop some gallows humor to cope with that. Sopranos is about people I’d prefer to spend less time with.

Sopranos was sort of the opposite of The Shield for me. I could tell there was a lot of thought put into things like the music choices, but I just didn’t like watching it. With Mad Men, there wasn’t the hook of organized crime to get me interested at all (I watched it purely for the past-tense of having watched it…

The soundtrack listing above credits “You’re My World” to Cilla Black rather than ATJ, who is just credited with the two versions of “Downtown”.

I did mention the passive role, but not the location. Whereas the linked story involves a man actively ripping down his victim’s pants.

I decided to only watch horror this month... with the exception being the new Dune. Hopefully Last Duel will still be in theaters in November.

Law of Small Numbers with fewer critics watching & reviewing?

a literal evil lair

I was going to say that injuries for a stunt are somewhat expected, but it was weird that happened to a P.A. I know a PA got killed on that Midnight Rider movie, but that was regarded as a criminally negligent production.

A bit hard to sexually assault someone in a passive role while everyone is fully clothed, though not that hard to be a disgusting creep.

I can understand not wanting to cast a woman a decade older than Cumberbatch for that part, since the real woman would have been in her 30s when she married Wain... but that’s a reason not to cast Cumberbatch himself.

Sounds like you’ve got to pick up every stitch.

I didn’t watch the second season of The Terror, but that might have kept it off the list.

I watched Band of Brothers not too long before BSG, so the latter (after the pilot) just kept seeming so stupid by comparison it felt like the characters deserved extinction.

“Touching Evil” was a ridiculous show. Apparently in the original UK version he got special powers from his near death experience, but in the US he’s just brain damaged and permitted to still be an FBI agent anyway. It had decent intro music though, restrained in precisely the way the show itself wasn’t.

I watched two seasons of “Better Things” because critics insisted it was great and I was a fan of “Louie”, but it turned out the natural successor to that show was actually “Atlanta”. I was late coming to that because of my distaste for “Community”, but it turned out to be much better than I expected.

The common view that the show improved from season to season is correct... but it started from a low enough point that even the last season isn’t all that great.

What horror movie did he do other than Death Proof?

Yes, I know it’s about the characters rather than the actors. I’m highlighting the common trope that Hollywood will pair older male actors with younger female actresses even when the real people’s ages don’t correspond to that.

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