As we would to be fair, imagine Americans reaction to Mexico or Canada having close ties to the Russians or Chinese now. I mean the little island of Cuba had us in a tizzy, someone with the border and resources of either of our two neighbors being cozy with the geopolitical adversary would freak us out. We really take…

That is the article of an idiot. “The 3 vollunteers,” uh that event did happen. Not as dramatic as portrayed but 3 people did have to open valves. The helicopter. In the show its showed hitting the crane cable, just like in real life. They just moved it up in the timeline because the show wasnt about building the…

America said in response, “We had no agents there, but to be fair, it does sound like something we’d do.”

Reminds me of a line from ‘Family Guy’ (back when I still watched it, a long time ago):

To the accuracy question, anyone who enjoys the show will likely also enjoy the companion podcast, which takes great care to point out where liberties were taken in service of the selected medium. Since the thesis of the work is the cost of lies, Mazin was strongly compelled to tell the story honestly (if not…

It’s not 100% historically accurate - it IS a drama after all - but it is more than sufficiently accurate to scare the pants off you in places. I won’t spoil anything, but if the first episode is best described as “apocalyptic”, the ending of the 2nd episode is utterly frightening.

Give it a few weeks of determined Facebook infiltration and Russia could sucessfully sell this story as a true fact of the manipulations of QAnon and the Deep State going back to the 80s. By end of the month Fox will site it as an example for something.

In fairness, it’s really hard to deny something that you’ve never been asked to consider and thus has never occurred to you.

One could almost say that Russian leadership is having a real... meltdown about this.

It would be a television show.

Make it a 5 season HBO tv show?

I count Logan as my fourth. The inclusion of Professor X and the plot hinging on the comic exploits of the X Men seal the deal for me making it a proper X Men movie.

I think the team you pick determines the tone.

I’m just counting the “main” X-Men movies. Not the Wolverine or Deadpool ones.

it should go the Spider-Man route and take the main cast back to high school. All the metaphors that make X-Men so potent are rife to be reintroduced in its original teenaged setting. Also center it on the characters that haven’t really been focused on before, so put Wolverine on the sidelines and set Magneto aside…

You know what would be a great companion series? Something about the 9/11 workers who spent months at ground zero, having been assured by the EPA that it was safe to do so, and who now suffer all manner of respiratory ailments and cancers, and have faced the same struggle for accountability and recognition of what…

As of right now there are 350+ comments on this article, so I scrolled and scrolled, hoping in vain that someone had already mentioned mine (GoT might end up being bigger, but it’s too soon to tell), and then there you were, hero of my pop culture heart.

The Gilmore Girls Netflix episodes. I was so excited about it, but it made me hate Lorelai and Rory even more.

This is why horror is my favorite genre. A bad comedy is excruciating, a bad drama is boring, but at least a bad horror movie can still be a blast under the right circumstances. 

The prequels as a set are a good choice. But I think I was most disappointed by the Seinfeld finale. My theory is that you can laugh at a really bad drama, but a really bad piece of comedy leaves you with absolutely nothing.