Stranger Things is TV, not movies. Maya has been in movies, but I don’t think she’s well known for that. Sorry, Gia Coppola, but nobody watched Mainstream.

I watched five seasons of that show, which was way too many. I kept getting tricked by TV critics saying it got good again after the nadir of season 3.

It’s certainly far from individual tutoring, but I don’t think that’s an option (and the studies that have been done on smaller class sizes were not encouraging).

I’ve heard the term “episodic” used to describe films which consist of rather loosely connected incidents even though it doesn’t actually come in units of “episodes”.

TV is a writer’s medium rather than a director’s.

Neil LaBute already made a limited series titled “Full Circle”, inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s late 19th century play “La Ronde”. Since it aired on the Audience network, I never watched it.

I did not know she was in Titanic. I know her as Temple Grandin & Carrie Mathison.

It’s “objective truth” within the world of the show, in the contrast to Fire & Blood being presented as written by a maester relying on sources the maester himself indicates are not entirely reliable.

I absolutely agree assault is more common than murder. I mentioned a “threshold effect” in the context of vehicular fatalities where the lawbreaking which often precedes said fatalities is far more common, but not measured as well without the evidence of wrecked cars & dead bodies. So when we look at the murder rate…

Teaching “NOTHING except how to fill your brain with data” is a step above just plain “NOTHING”. Although I do appreciate you doing your bit to confirm my claim about that hostility!

Episodic anthologies are self-contained, as is the archetypal sitcom, but that’s not enough to be a procedural.

It was his first genuinely good movie (alright, I haven’t seen The Brothers Bloom and am just assuming) if it it did retain some of his annoying tics.

I was also surprised by Rockwell’s casting. Normally it’s Brit actors taking jobs from the Americans, while Americans can convincingly pull of a Brit accent.

The FBI does victimization surveys, which show vastly higher victimization rates for many crimes than what are reported to police. The biggest exception for non-homicide crimes is car theft, since cars are valuable enough that people usually report them. With murder there is no requirement that the victim report the…

I didn’t watch Thirtysomething, Parenthood or The OC but my understanding is that none of them are about occupations. They aren’t procedurals. Nor is it sensible to think every workplace procedural should be replaced with a family drama. The people who want to watch family dramas can watch family dramas, while the…

That link was just about transfer of learning rather than forgetting. Here’s one for that:

The fantasy of being an upper-class British child sent to boarding school just will not die.

Key & Peele winning sort of counts as a win for MADtv.

She only snorted the stars, not the mountain.