The IDW comics - which span TOS, TNG, Discovery, and even the JJ movie-verse - achieve a lot of the stuff you might expect to see in an animated show. I’ve only read the Discovery comics, but they were really well done, and capitalized on the storytelling freedom of the medium.

I also grew up watching TNG, and it really annoys me to hear him say it was “always fully formed adults”.

The more fringe pay cable channels sustained themselves pretty well (until being busted by torrents and streaming), through bundling. Obviously, the cable/satellite companies, which frequently also owned said fringe channels, were in a position to enforce the bundles. But I’d still watch for something similar to…

Three Billboards is a fundamentally well-made movie, with a well constructed story, in a way that Green Book isn’t. Green Book is hacky and predictable. Both are buoyed in awards by having A-list actors and by having a social message that the Foreign Press wants to be seen as embracing, but that only gets you so far.

It also struck me that this episode was really heavily reliant on the interpersonal stuff as the meat of the episode, rather than a sci-fi plot. It played as sort of a workplace drama/comedy, that just happened to take place on a space ship in the future.

What streaming service are these shows on? Who needs to know!

I’m not sure how much this is “patriarchy”. It’s privilege/entitlement, certainly, but I think it might have less to do with entitlement of being a guy (I can’t imagine a male PA expecting to get away with this shit) than it does with the entitlement of being a star.

He planned to get her fired for objecting to sexual harassment? ...That’s some 4d chess. If the production had telegraphed its embrace of sexual harassment that clearly, then I maintain that the bigger horror here is CBS.

What a creep.

Matt Mira’s in the pocket of Big Rod. 

I watched every episode of House and didn’t find Sherlock to be too familiar because of it. Sherlock’s first season is propulsive and intense. Thundersnatch’s Holmes was a revelation - uniquely charismatic and charmingly English. Freeman’s Watson struck me as a very fresh and likable take on a character usually…

Elementary has been appointment viewing for me since its first season. I wouldn’t be happy to see it end, except for the fact that the past couple seasons have felt very unloved by CBS, and the show has felt much more budget-constrained. The plots are less ambitious, the guest stars aren’t as good, they aren’t…

BBC’s Sherlock has been gliding for a long time from the high of its first season, which was, when it came out, a fresh and riveting take on Sherlock Holmes storytelling. It cemented a positive reputation for the show, which has only slowly eroded away. Subsequent seasons haven’t been as consistently good, and the…

I disagree with this sentiment.

I’ll give that a try on your recommendation. Hardcore History seems to be the most popular of the history podcasts, although after listening to a big chunk of the catalog I soured on it. Dan Carlin’s meandering presentation style (which deprives the episodes of any narrative cohesion) started to grate on me. But his…

No bad movie podcasts superlatives, this year.

I think Season 3 was a definite improvement on Season 2, and the amount of work they put into it shines through. Although you do really get the sense that they were hoping to latch onto a case that would have a momentous ending, but again and again the cases they followed ended... very ordinarily, with plea deals.…

I’m going to commend the first episode of the podcast Strong Songs. I stumbled across it as a Pocket Casts recommendation that I tried on a whim, but it’s actually kind of fascinating. Every episode breaks down a hit pop song on a really intense, technical music level. The first episode is Africa by Toto. It gives a…

Ayoooooo!

SHHHHH!!! You will not ruin my happy childhood memories of The Price is Right.