I was thinking that “Special Correspondents” (which I have admittedly never watched) had already done the plotline of someone only pretending to be abroad when a news story is occurring supposedly around them.

With “The Good Wife” it meant the lead actress could refuse to film any scenes with a co-star she dislikes for reasons that still haven’t been revealed.

Yeah, the problem is the first three books are part 1 of his planned trilogy. The next two replaced a time jump. He’s still never gotten to the middle book of his planned trilogy.

A “cinematic universe” plays in cinemas, rather than on the small screen. I know the acronym comes from “Home Box Office”, but despite their slogan it really is TV.

Us was a deeply GenX movie.

Yes, I was under the impression Nope has been more poorly received than Get Out and perhaps also Us.

So it’s another period piece rather than a futuristic scifi movie? I have more interest in rewatching “The Vast of Night” instead.

Simply remove the word “literally” and a hyperbolic statement can still be hyperbolic, it’s just no longer explicitly disclaiming that it’s hyperbolic. The word “like” has received complaints about overusage but it’s helpful in indicating “Not exactly this, but something like it”.

I see every “II” got turned into “Ii”.

The Town wasn’t bad. It’s got a Rotten Tomatoes score of 92% and a Metacritic score of 74.

I don’t know why you needed to include that paragraph about a completely different movie at the end.

They do have Great Councils for elections, but don’t rely on that nearly often enough to avoid multiple civil wars.

GRRM is more into historical fiction than actual history. But since I brought up anachronisms in The Great above, merely by having any interest in history he can still wind up more accurate than Tony McNamara.

GRRM has understandably not been specific about which parts of the outline he gave D&D for the ending are still part of his plan.

D&D were picked by GRRM.

One of the historical anachronisms in “The Great” is that there was already a female Empress before Catherine. Catherine’s own husband Peter III was the successor to Elizabeth I. Catherine was Catherine II, because Peter the Great’s wife Catherine was empress regnant after Peter’s death (Catherine II was the last…

Us could have given less explanation and as a result been a better movie.

I would of course never use “would of”.

I very much mind the non-literal hyperbolic use of “literally”. We had a very valuable word that meant “not figuratively”, and using it when not appropriate is like counterfeiting, devaluing the word so it no longer has the value it previously had.

The Keep is his misfire, heavily dependent on special effects by a guy who had it all in his head and died during production.