I find the Hollywood guild rules pretty fascinating, in general.

You say that like these are the Transformers movies, a creatively bankrupt cash-grab. That’s unfair. They’re not high art, but the Star Wars movies have been critically well received, and Rogue One and Last Jedi both took some creative risks that a lot of mainstream fans might have preferred they didn’t. From what I…

“That all seems more confusing than it really needs to be” ...which is all the more reason to think it’s exactly what will happen in Mission Impossible

The trailer for The Passage would have been greatly improved by having Mark-Paul Gosselaar hold a giant fat-batteried cell phone. Then we would remember where we recognize him from and have a good laugh.

David Alan Grier also seems to outclass the shit out of his costars, the writers, the director, the writers, the art department, the editors and the writers.

You don’t have a clue what question I was answering, evidently.

The Donner movies define the Superman characters for a lot of people. The movies hold up well, and for decades they were the only reference points in pop culture for those characters. It was a while before Lois and Clark eventually came along. Adam West’s Batman had a similarly lengthy monopoly on his character, for…

Theme Park I don’t hate. The train yard splits the map in a weird way, and it might be too big, but it still sets up some pretty good fights and offers lots of attack options. Tower is a debacle. I’ve played it maybe 100 times and it still makes no sense to me. Even the name is confusing, because it’s clearly a…

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.