I liked Good Time a lot more than Uncut Gems, personally. The black comedy hits way more reliably here, in large part due to Buddy Duress’s absolutely ridiculous performance. Every dumb fucking thing that comes out of Ray’s mouth had me rolling.

While it doesn’t return us to the level of that perfect pilot, this week was still a return to form after the mess of episode 2. Not that it matters, every episode’s gonna get an A rating anyway, apparently.

This seems like the type of thing us out-of-the-loop sarcastic white dudes on the internet will snark over while it absolutely dominates its target demo. I can see Twitter’s trending topics being overrun with shipping wars already.

I always forget the difference between Dragon’s Dogma and Dragon’s Crown... looks like this is the one that doesn’t have the witch with watermelon-sized boobs, so I’ll pass.

Oh and also,

The show’s following the book pretty closely, this was just Chapter 2. It makes sense in the big picture.

Yeah, this episode was a big step down for me. Even when I wasn’t struggling to tell what was going on because of the machine-gun exposition, the poor lighting and sound mixing filled in the gaps.

Truth be told I figured out who the twist villain was going to be pretty early in a very meta way. Their social link isn’t one of the traditional major arcana, which meant that it had to have been added for Golden, and given how important they are to the story it was VERY WEIRD that they wouldn’t be a Social Link in…

Oh hey the exact same thing happened to me, where I got the bad end because I (SPOILERS) didn’t think we should kill the guy but apparently told my friends not to kill the guy in a way the game didn’t want me to.

I would argue that we have seen what a Soulslike that explains what’s going on looks like, it’s called Code Vein, and it involves several hours of an anime boy explaining to you that Blood Haze comes from Blood Beads which are the fruit of trees called Blood Fountains that grow out of Blood Veins that you can make use…

I dunno, everything I’ve heard pegs it as boring bad-bad instead of fun good-bad. If you’re expecting The Room with more blood, guts, and whores, I think you’re gonna be disappointed.

I’m trying to wrap my head around Alan Grant being played by Harrison Ford and I cannot come even close to seeing it. I mean this with all respect to Sam Neill, but Grant is way too much of a shlubby dork to make Ford feel natural.

Any version of All Star that lasts six minutes could be described as ‘sad’.

I dunno friend, I’ve watched it a couple hundred times on VHS, and I’m pretty sure it still holds up.

The actress is credited on IMDB as ‘Christina Braithwhite’.

They swapped Caleb’s gender for the show, it’s not who I think you’re implying you think it is.

Cute that you think it’ll take 20 years and not that it’s already happened.

I dunno man, doesn’t sound like she’s a vampire to me. It sounds like she’s a chair.

Maybe it’s because I was already a big fan of the books, but I’m with you. Always thought the movie was super overrated for what it ended up being. It’s... fine? But it never completely got there for me.

My grandad worked for decades as an electronics salesman for a local department store chain, to the point of being personal friends with the owner, and pulled some strings to secure my brother and I a PS2 for Christmas 2000 when no one else could find one. Unfortunately, the only game he managed to get his hands on…