The irritation he causes his readers is part of his compensation, and makes him willing to work for less than others.

Sad to hear, although within the context of that scene he outlived a lot of other frontmen.

What were the ratings for previous seasons like?

You should ask him if he can help you remember of the title of that movie with Nicolas Cage looking for a pig.

My prediction: eventually the Winds of Winter will be released, at a time when it’s clear the series as a whole will never be finished (the Tales of Dunk and Egg will also never be finished, and if he sticks to his pledge then Fire and Blood Part 2 won’t be released either). It will clearly be unadaptable and still…

Forrest Gump & Benjamin Button are both (in my understanding) cynical works of literature made treacly by Eric Roth.

Deadwood is the only show that can rival The Wire for me. And I’m including Simon’s other shows when I say that.

I don’t remember any cars crashing in Dune. There aren’t even any roads!

I didn’t mind him in The Devil All the Time, but I’m in no need to see more of him. Particularly if Akiva Goldsman is writing. His Rotten Tomatoes page makes you wonder how he keeps getting so much work.

I’m not sure I can suspend my disbelief in the fantastical premise of... Roma owning land in 19th century France.

The Romanoffs was an episodic anthology without a central character. And Mad Men arguably developed into an ensemble rather than lead-driven show rather quickly.

The Texas Chainsaw franchise repeatedly ignored sequels even while Hooper was alive.

Weiner made Mad Men and then Romanoffs. Winter made Boardwalk Empire and then Vinyl.

I had previously found it striking that since the end of the Sopranos, two of its writers (Weiner & Winter) had two TV shows while Chase himself had just made Not Fade Away. But the second show for each of them died after a single season. You could say that just shows how hard it is to create multiple prestige dramas,…

Lulu, who in turn does not end the movie by stalking and killing her former human ally in an orgy of bloodshed

I know Kentucker Audley from “Sun Don’t Shine”, but he’s also done some sarcastic youtuber cinephile video-essays:

It actually won the first competitive Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

I’m currently reading Ursula Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed”, a fitting to follow-up to two very different books I read directly preceding it (one by Marshall Sahlins, and one by Robert Heinlein).

Just this weekend I was re-reading some of Grant Morrison’s “metaseries” Seven Soldiers, which might not make much sense if you only read one character’s series of 4 issues, plus their portion of the ending. First reading “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” and then having to wait years for the sequel to explain things does not…