I’m annoyed, but at least it doesn’t cover the content. If you use UBlock Origin, the video never comes up so it’s just a black screen in the corner, FYI. 

I did CTR+Shift+T once for my mom when she accidentally closed a bunch of browser tabs she still needed. She looked at me like I was a conjurer. This is one of those commands that I don’t know where I picked up, but I just sort of thought everyone knew. Apparently not.

Ah, Pondo. That place was inexplicably the go-to workplace for teens in my weird little suburb when I was growing up. I worked at one for a couple of years and here are the things that have stuck with me:

Hell, even the people who worked at Ponderosa—myself included—called it Pondegrossa. That said, you could get some surprisingly tasty entrees if the cook working the grill was any good. The buffet food was unremarkable at best when I worked there, but we had some damn good cooks who could make a steak.

Max+ sounds like a new size of tampon. I can’t wait until Zaslov decided to go with that. 

My friend is currently expecting what will be her last child. Her other kids were born using IVF and she had one embryo left in storage. She wasn’t sure she wanted to use it. Then the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and she started taking the drugs for her last round of IVF within a month. She was concerned that…

In my main grocery store, the plant based meat section is in between the beef/pork section and the chicken section of the refrigerator. So the Impossible ground beef is right next to the regular ground beef. I don’t think it helps sales; in fact, it probably hurts. The packaging and portions are smaller, the price is…

In my area (NE Ohio), we’ve had the plant-based meats in with the “regular” meats in the refrigerated section for years now. Interestingly enough, the plant-based frozen foods still have their own section of the freezer case. Somehow, this makes perfect sense in my brain, because it’s what I’m used to. The fresh…

However, the ultimate test will still come on March 12, when The Last Of Us’ finale airs at the same time as the Super Bowl.

Oh man, don’t even get me started on For All Mankind. I mean, I suppose my expectations of Ronald D. Moore shouldn’t have been that high. My only experience with him previous to For All Mankind was Outlander, which had two solid (yet melodramatic) seasons and then really went downhill, sustained only by its very…

Not everybody can be Mark Harmon and stick with the same tired shit from CBS for 20 years. Honestly, I’m shocked they got 5 seasons out of someone like Costner.

He’s holding his rifle across his chest in that shot, if I remember correctly. So probably not peeing. 

Minor correction: Mazin wrote the episode but didn’t direct. Episodes 4 and 5 are directed by Jeremy Webb.

The early montage of their road trip was fairly schizophrenic, too, geographically speaking. The series has done a lot right, from casting to pacing to production design. But the geography depicted so far has been weak, perhaps hamstrung by shooting in Calgary, which doesn’t easily approximate the eastern and…

So much bullshit.

The Hollywood Quiz sketch had an idea with no idea how to execute it or a good sense of what they actually wanted to say with that idea. You can see the seeds of the idea in who they chose the contestants to be—a film studies professor, an entertainment writer for a print publication, and a podcaster. There is…

This is the way to go. 

It’s definitely intentional, for the reasons you listed and more. There’s a clear contrast between the ruin of the lobby piano and the upkeep of Bill’s piano. Pianos can be finicky instruments, requiring consistent use and upkeep to stay functional (SOB at my family piano that my parents let get so badly out of tune…

Agreed. Just seeing what we’ve seen so far of the world outside of Lincoln, it seems clear to me that Bill and Frank “won” the apocalypse. They got to live out their lives in relative normalcy, with someone they loved who helped them to be their best, authentic selves. It’s hard to see that as tragic. 

This is why I mostly brush off/get only mildly annoyed by commentary that dwells on how the series differs from the game. Different mediums require different treatments. So in the series you change something, like the outcome of Bill and Frank’s relationship, in service of the larger objective—to successfully adapt…