I think it’s for the best Mulholland Drive is a movie, because I don’t think Lynch was that into making any TV series that could have gotten greenlit.

That’s because people who don’t care for it are unlikely to keep talking about it. The metaphor of evaporative cooling/boiling off has been other for other social processes.

Russian Ark isn’t like any bit of narrative storytelling. I know Victoria from 2015 took the legitimate single-shot (not stitched together) approach for a young-people-comiting-crime story, but I haven’t seen it.

Stranger Things is multiple seasons of TV which comes back every once in a while. Avatar is more easily forgotten because it was a longer amount of time ago that people watched it. I, for one, never did. The last James Cameron movie I’ve seen is True Lies (he seems to have gotten worse with every movie after the…

Shrikes should be doing the impaling, rather than being impaled themselves.

I had heard of him. He directed some episodes of The Killing, including ones featuring Amy Seimetz, and the two of them both directed on The Girlfriend Experience. I never actually watched that latter show, but I found that split in responsibilities interesting, as I believe they took on separate plotlines in the…

His point about how the Mad Max series has worked by presenting its world without explaining it has made me less interested in any prequel.

Winds of Winter was supposed to wrap up plotlines left hanging in ADWD, and consolidate characters as everyone came together. A Storm of Swords was hefty enough & climactic enough to make two seasons, so there was some hope Winds could be similar. Without Dream they would have to make up the ending via GRRM’s mere…

And yet GRRM has gone over a decade without writing a sequel to ADWD, whereas Kirkman kept regularly publishing new issues of Walking Dead before ending it in issue 193.

He was slowing down before the show even started. The big change is that now he has enough money that his publisher can’t force him to do things like split off A Feast for Crows by geography, or publish A Dance with Dragons without the climactic battles it was building up to.

I never watched Grey’s Anatomy, but my understanding is that it’s a procedural. There are serialized non-procedural shows which have rung longer: soap operas. But those are intended to run indefinitely rather than building up to an ending.

It still wouldn’t have given him enough time to finish Winds of Winter. It just would have meant spending more time on the shakiest ground adaptation-wise. We can say in hindsight that the best outcome might have been to only start adapting the show years later once it was clear GRRM was never resolving the plotlines…

I heard about it years before I actually got around to seeing it, but I was not let down.

After years of playing the younger versions of main characters, McKenna Grace finally got her own for this (and it’s the same actress who played the younger version of Eleven in the most recent season of Stranger Things).

Jessie Buckley was great in it. I could totally believe she was a man-eating lion.

Since the director of Dead for a Dollar is not mentioned (while it is for the other upcoming films), it’s Walter Hill.

I’m going to be a downer and say the next thing she does probably won’t be nearly as good, unless it’s another show created by Gilligan and/or Gould. And even for them it might be hard for them to bottle lightning again.

In the BCS Insider podcast I recall she cited Michael Mann instead.

What good’s the true story when Matt Schimkowitz can complain about something else?