I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a show that appeared expensive and cheap at the same time - ultra-HD photography in modern Manhattan, scrubbed clean of all historical / architectural / psychological character, and at the same time the COVID shooting schedule meant no extras at all in any of the scenes. It’s weird to…

The show has well aged out of its prime, and the more I read of it from people who aren’t hardcore fans (which is most people, in this age of endless, exhausting content) the more there seems to be bafflement and even a little embarrassment that it’s still a going concern. I anticipate shrugs, if not just because it’s…

Per the Vanity Fair podcast, Guy Pearce was brought on (probably by Winslet, after they worked together on Mildred Pearce) when another actor whose name I forget (but who isn’t totally unknown) had to drop out. So I wouldn’t take Pearce’s fame as an indicator one way or the other.

No L&O:OC coverage? I was hoping to get some shots in on its horrible room tones and rote plotting

They really made a choice with his hair highlights

The 19th major studio spin on Get Out in the four years since it hit is a Ryan Murphy knockoff? That’s 2021, baby.

I knew something was wrong when the L&O theme variation did not slap and Stabler was the only character shown in the intro stills.

“New Gods, which would have been a sprawling tale, was complicated by the fact that its villain, Darkseid, just appeared as a major foil in Zack Snyder’s Justice League and there was a desire to have space between the latter and any new appearances.”

The early scuttlebutt was that it tied into IT, but who knows. Probably going to have to do some googling.

I’ve heard this from a few folks who really like The Stand book and appreciate its epic length, but honestly all I can think about when I read it is Carnivale, an epic, prewritten five-season story about Good and Evil that got only got two... and honestly, that first season is what I imagine a doggedly faithful Stand…

Adam Nevill will probably be dismayed to learn he didn’t write The Ritual

Livecam footage of Luca:

Luca Guadagnino is a cross between Terrence Malick and that guy you barely know who invites you to poly play parties

No The Act of Killing, no sale

I hate to be the one to tell you this but all love ends in tragedy

Odds and ends:

Bly Manor is, at the very least, a far better vessel for Mike Flanagan’s sentimental streak than Hill House. While I agree that the pacing and structure issues of the show up to this point knock it about a little, I think the ending works, tonally, in a way that Hill House’s ending abjectly did not work.

I think she’s more talking about Dani’s fiancee and Henry’s double, neither of which strictly adhere to the magical physics established this episode. Eddie didn’t die on the grounds and Smilin’ Henry clearly isn’t a ghost.

To the point about the Viola storyline being ableist, I could certainly see it. We get a few shots of longing glances suggesting Perdita wants Viola’s husband, but the dude has just left for an overseas business trip, and Viola is an unpleasant person. So when we’re told that Perdita thought “mercy” when she murdered…

I said to myself, “the architecture nerds will not be happy about this”, and I was right.