Yeah, with everything I read about her (not that I seek things out) she seems like a pretty terrible person to be around. And that has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that I have never found her funny, either.

Well, at least you acknowledge early on this is a wholly unnecessary spin-off.

I feel like this serves two purposes: 1) to be that token “prequel/sequel no one asked for;” and 2) to present New York City AS a character.

Pfft, it’s *barely* an article about a car.

Even moreso when it’s... swimming. Not even Olympic swimming, just swimming.

I’m in a weird place with anything Star Wars-related. I am old enough so that SW has been in my life since I was about three. I grew up on the OT, had the toys, Underoos, and everything in between. For the prequels I camped out for tickets for Episode 1. I took my kids to see all the sequels.

I’m cautiously optimistic for The Bear. I liked season one, and I liked season 2, but they “felt” like different shows with the same characters. Season two had some weird episodes that felt like some of the more odd episodes of Atlanta. Perhaps the Murai influence was stronger in some episodes than others.

Continuity schmontinuity. It doesn’t matter. Hot take, though, the Millerverse is perhaps one of the most overrated universes out there. I didn’t get all the hullabaloo over the Hardy one, and will wait for streaming on this one. The others have been borderline silly.

I’d argue that the Agatha show is also completely unneeded. I love Kathryn Hahn, but we don’t need a solo show for her. There is no way she is interesting enough to carry an entire show. I predict there will be a spin-off from that, too.

We’re talking fictional people here, not Depp texts.

I enjoyed nearly all of season one.  Ironically it moved too slowly, though, as if they stretched it out a full episode or two too long. Maybe this one will be tighter.

So this is not based on any written word from Tolkien, then, right? It’s essentially a screenplay from scratch with familiar characters and places only?

“At the end of the day, this seems like this is just a different workplace mockumentary sitcom with Office branding slapped on top.”

Wait, so this is technically a spin-off then?

Wait, there’s been three of these already? And is “Furya” supposed to sound roughly like Furiosa?

I’ve never understood the appeal of these roasts. Conservatively, 10% of the jokes are actually funny, while 90% of the time each person at the podium has is used to talk crap about the other roasters.

Are you positing that it is a historical anthology? You missed “and full of nonsensical parables and lessons.”

Hemsworth was not the worst part of Love and Thunder. He was just playing the same part as in Ragnarok. It was all the rest. Russell Crowe and that whole... I don’t know what to call it. Anyway, all that was the downfall of Love and Thunder. And Portman just didn’t have any gravity to what was, I think, supposed to be…

But there IS a good reason. This show was past its prime a few seasons ago. The only thing more unfortunate that it has gone on so long is that it is getting a spin-off.

Raise your hand if you think killing the EU was a way to call it unofficial only so it could be reintroduced as canon later?