Either Johnny Walker paid someone for that shameless plug, or they didn’t. I’m not sure which I’d find more offensive.

Rush Hour was a great movie, but I think Tucker and Chan have gotten too old for this shit.

You’re quite right. I remembered the scene with Pike and the ship’s doctor, and in my head it was with McCoy. I was remembering incorrectly.

The irony is that last week Zack critiqued (rightly, I thought) that this show hadn’t justified where it sat in the timeline. It imposed the limitations of a prequel on itself, without doing anything with it. Now, finally, the show is setting itself up to do something that is only possible because of where it sits on…

He also had a great multi-episode guest spot in Silicon Valley, which was the first time I’d seen him in at least a decade.

They’re both obscured by beards, I can’t tell!

Seriously? There are ordinary fans who had nothing to do with making the original trilogy that go fucking ballistic over choices made in the new movies. Yet the guy who CREATED the universe and made the original trilogy isn’t allowed to be “pissy”? He just has to take his money (which, by your own assertion, really…

SG-1 is such an awesome show. That was my first box set, back in the days before streaming. I didn’t have much spare money, and spent basically all my disposable income in high school on box sets. I caught up with the seasons as they were newly airing around season 6. Then streaming became a thing, and my DVDs are…

Torrent binges (Kazaa for me, more precisely) were hard in the early days, because each episode took so damn long to download that you couldn’t exactly go back-to-back. But I remember watching a ton of Star Trek: Voyager that way. It was totally out of order because the episode selection was wickedly random. You’d add…

I had a really hard time remembering this, but I think it was one of either Firefly or Breaking Bad. I also watched Sense8 and Narcos early after their releases, and definitely binged those. I never got into OINTB or House of Cards.

“He’s literally phoning it in” — I was wondering why in the preview clips, they cut away from Dakota Johnson to a still image publicity shot of Jamie Dornan, and Dornan is a CNN foreign correspondent instead of a billionaire, and Dakota Johnson is Wolf Blitzer. I was puzzled about that.

This is fun.

When Universal originally dumped the movie, I sagely predicted that we were on the eve of bombshell revelations that Lizzy Caplan was an abusive sexual predator. Now that Netflix has revived the project, I can safely take credit for being right.

I’m not being “disingenuous”, I’m being imprecise because I don’t know which family members run the Estate. Reporting described Fiat Chrysler as having worked on the ad with Estate “representatives” (plural). Regardless, my point wasn’t to impugn all of MLK’s family, it was to counter the suggestion that the ad was…

I’ve listened to the first episode. As a Serial parody it’s pretty late, but it’s well produced, and the ad read parodies were great.

MLK’s family controls the rights to his speeches and had to sign off on this ad. Obviously they can’t be blamed for creating it, but they had some hand in it, and I am pretty sure they are not white.

I kind of buy that. Add to it the disastrous consequences if it gets into enemy hands. The temptation would be too much to use it as long as any record of it existed, so you’d have to destroy all of it. ...Even though it won a war and saved the Federation from the brink.

I was highly critical of Zack for his approach to earlier reviews, but he won me back with this review. I just appreciate that he’s willing to recognize the show as fun, because that’s the central emotion that I have when I sit down and watch it. With that as the backdrop, I’ll hear out any criticisms, and this week I…

Now imagine the crew’s mind-fuck when they learn that for the second time in a row their captain is a mirror-universe impostors.

I realized only after I posted my message that the “newsflash” preface was unduly snarky. We’re not in disagreement.