No. The first episode viewership dropped by >25%, even before everyone came to the consensus that it sucked.

The short answer is “no”. It does air in the U.S., but only on BBC America, which is not a very well-watched channel. It gets viewership in the hundreds of thousands, which is commensurate with a Mythbusters re-run.

Lucifer airs first in Canada on Sunday nights, so I can tell you - without spoiling - that I don’t think the “cliffhanger” is all that devastating.

Don’t forget the slow clap guy!

Thank god. Half way through reading the article, I got really angry that he wasn’t mentioning how good Not Another Teen Movie was and felt strongly I needed to make this comment. But then I saw there were 336 comments already, and was worried I’d have to read all of them to check for an existing relevant thread.

I had a hard time reading past “A fun, comprehensive new video essay from YouTuber...”, but it is interesting how few games have memorable commercial campaigns. I think a larger part of that is that not many games run commercials, at all.

The infomercial market hits on some ideas, but they are definitely the exception rather than the rule. The stuff that genuinely works as well as advertised tends to migrate into the mainstream fairly quickly. The George Foreman-style grill being one example (e.g. Cusinart has a countertop top-and-bottom grill, now)…

I forgot about Jared in forming my thesis, if I’m being honest. You’re quite right.

I give less credit to Marvel and more credit to Josh Brolin.

Gavin’s pretty amazing as far as “villains” go. It’s satisfying when he face plants, but there’s also a part of you (or at least me) that also kind of cheers him on, and finds it satisfying when he pulls something off. They made a lot of effort last season to humanize him.

I am engaged in looking for clues, either way. That’s the experience of watching a thriller. And it’s fun when they’re guesses, and (a) I don’t know whether I’m right, and (b) I take ownership in the guess, and can pat myself on the back if it turns out I get it right. But if a strong consensus emerges - e.g. becuase…

I can’t decide whether this type of speculation/spoileration enhances my experience of watching a show, or ruins it.

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).