This rules but it’s also not surprising because, frankly, I don’t know that I’d recognize Gary Oldman on the street. The man’s one of the few working actors whose face seems to completely disappear and transform into whatever character he’s playing. And if he’s clean-shaven? Lost. 

Bless Al Ewing. 

Futurama had my favorite example of A.I. in that the robots all just became like, people. Bored, lazy, and often useless. Anyway, Slattery’s always fun/good so sure. He deserves a shot at the lead.

Selena’s royalty. She’s basically a saint to us Tejanos. So, yes, I’m going to watch this series.

I’m very into these casting choices.

I don’t want to get my hopes up for this, but that is a stacked cast. Really good choices.

HBO Max needs to get its shit together and strike a deal with Amazon, and/or vice versa. Sigh. I’m paying for HBO Max but can’t access it? (It ended up cheaper than HBO alone due to that special promotion and I still get HBO Now, so...but still.)

King’s Joker at least felt more like a depressed comedian than Snyder’s demon-king-Joker. I prefer my Joker in the vein of Batman: The Animated Series, who is still sort of a murderclown but damn it, he’s having fun. Make some jokes, Joker! Japes!

Look, if I’m completely honest, I thought it was a more interesting portrayal of Doc Manhattan’s post-Watchmen experience than the Watchmen series. And the whole “Core Essence/Metaverse” thing was exactly the kind of weird DC comics shit that I enjoy. But the delays didn’t help, and it didn’t quite shake things up…

there are different ways to use the superhero genre and comic-book medium than grimdark broodfests on a nine-panel grid.

there are different ways to use the superhero genre and comic-book medium than grimdark broodfests on a nine-panel grid.

Awww, fuck you, COVID. (And Netflix.) I was looking forward to seeing them wrap everything up. I want to see where Ruth et al. end up! How about a movie or something? Like you did with Sense8? Air it in 2022, and then set it in the ‘90s. Will Alison Brie and the rest of the cast be fine? Sure, but they deserve to end…

Yeah, it must be conditioning at this point. But it’s button location more than letter association for me. The bottom button is “confirm/action/etc.”, the left button is “next”, the right button is “back/cancel,” and the top button is “heavy attack.”

As someone who spent the Witcher 3 playing with the School of the Cat and School of the Wolf armor sets, this isn’t my favorite armor. But it’s appropriately goth and dude looks hot in it, so I can deal.

The death knell of the Republican Party as a viable institution cannot come soon enough. But I fear that they’ll keep trying to take us all down with them before letting that happen.

Oh, to be able to vibe like this dude, even once. 

January? Oh, good. I was thinking we would have to wait until next summer. I am itching to watch season three. The season two finale was harsh.

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I would likely not have considered watching this until I saw it was Gibney who was behind it. He’s so far been very, very good at distilling conmen’s cons into chilling but digestible films. Guess we’ll see. It’s very a little frightening to be getting a COVID-19 documentary while the pandemic still rages. 

The opening was chilling. You know where it’s going, but the pure mundanity of the execution (both of the sequence and the literal murder) was scary shit.