Amazon has been promoting this show pretty heavily already, even before Krasinski’s recent directorial success. I think they ran a trailer for it during the Superbowl, two-and-a-half months ago, didn’t they?

That’s one of those movies that I found boring to watch for reasons I was (and am) totally incapable of articulating. If you describe any part of it to me, I’d say, “yes, I like that”. But to watch it, it was an instantly forgettable snooze, which didn’t grip my attention in the least.

I’ll have you know there are actually 176 episodes of House. But they got pretty repetitive, so it does feel like less.

His character retired to go live on a farm upstate. It was a devastating twist, but of course was accurately predicted on Reddit. I thought surely it had already been spoiled for everyone, by now.

Absolutely nothing.

I’ve enjoyed this show, and was pleased to hear about the S2 renewal, but this episode felt miscalculated. Neither Barry nor Sally behaved in a way that made sense to me, based on the characters I thought I’d come to know (and like).

I don’t know. The award show sounds masturbatory and nauseatingly self-important, but isn’t that true of all awards shows? Why should only people in TV and Film production get to dislocate their shoulders patting themselves on the back. Marketing execs are narcissists, too. I wouldn’t watch this dumpster fire, but its…

Comedy is a bit different than serialized drama in terms of running out of gas. “Ending” almost always gives a boost to a serialized drama (even Dexter was almost good in its last season - and its biggest failure was crafting an ending that contemplated a Dexter spin-off starring... Dexter).

Hail Ceaser could have been an entry on this list. It’s not a focus of the movie, but there is a hostage subplot played for laughs with George Clooney.

“Bad news fans, AoS is cancelled. But hold on, there’s good news: Inhumans is also cancelled”.

I really enjoyed it. You want to see “fake and forced”, give a watch to Chris Evans in his singular post-Clarkson Top Gear season. It’s cringe-inducing. 

There’s nothing new or special about about Game of Thrones. It’s a prestiege show. It gets a lot of media buzz and has a high profile, which draws eyes and goodwill to the the network, but is prohibitively expensive to make. There are tons of those, particularly on subscription-based networks/streaming services, where…

Without intending offence to Hughes, this feature might be best served by fewer words.

Interesting. I posted an AV Club comment at some point sharing my critique of the movie that there were too many camera shots with only a single person in the frame, and that gave an impression that the people weren’t in the place at the time, and made it feel incoherent. There are some car driving scenes that are…

“If I did...” is rarely a compelling “I didn’t do it” defence.

There’s already no real tension about someone robbing your boat, because what the hell were you going to do with the money anyways? I would actually say the opposite, that if the game has a secret ingredient that makes it fun, it’s the breezy inconsequentiality of it all. The problem I have is that breezy…

I pre-ordered the game about a year ago, on the hook of “open world pirateering” and a half-price discount. So it wasn’t as much of a deliberate choice for me to buy the game when it came out, and I’m not as anchored by the sunk cost as someone who’d paid full price.

There is literally no one who has commented suggesting otherwise (as of yet).

Ernie tried to vote in favour, but the system somehow subtracted someone else’s vote, instead.

Another example of Star Trek future history, for which characters had nostalgia, is in DS9, where Sisko and Jake admire Buck Bokai, a fictional chubby baseball star from the 2020s-2040s. He’s referenced in multiple episodes, and materializes as a character in Season 1's “If Wishes Were Horses”.