This season is amazing. It’s as much fun as I’ve had watching TV in a long time. I started with the season last night, intending that I’d just watch one episode (before getting back to a lengthy to-do list) and ended up watching the first 7 episodes.

When Hopper is torturing the Mayor to reveal who the “man on the motorcycle” is, he explicitly jokes that it’s “Arnold Schwarzenegger”.

A part of me actually kind of admires that you could watch that intensely emotional moment when his wife calls him, which was maybe the best earned moment of the Infinity two-parter (they did a lot to establish his family relationship before the snap and how the loss of his family ruined and motivated him post-snap),…

This casting of Spider Man is the most impressive, though. Iron Man, Captain America and Thor were characters that weren’t especially well defined, at least for the average movie goer. It’s kind of predictable that the actors who first played those characters have come to define our idea of them, because they’re the…

He talks like someone who is reading, but trying really hard not to sound like they are reading. He modulates his voice with the emotion of someone speaking their own words, but does so in a repetitive pattern that is clearly artificial and is disjointed with the content of his speech. This is a widespread problem…

So did the AV Club, once upon a time.

I take it to mean that Landis’s behaviour was consistent with the sort of sociopath who could serially abuse women. What Trank actually “knew” may have been much less than that. 

Even John Landis can’t be that rich or popular, to have that much of a halo effect on his shitbag son. He’s got maybe three good theatrical movie directorial credits, and they all released 30+ years ago. And it’s not like he’s just retired into Hollywood royalty. He’s occasionally resurfaced to direct TV shows on the…

We gave Thrones a ton of benefit of the doubt over the years that it was leading somewhere, and that everything we saw that didn’t necessarily make sense at the time was part of a grander plan that would come together at the end.

We all eventually reach an age where we fail to keep pace with the march of pop culture, and collapse on the side of the road, stuck in time. It seems that for me, that year is 2014.

I recently had a Twitter interaction with the Beek. Seems like he might have too much time on his hands, but he’s a cool enough dude.

I’m not sure that the Jeopardy! production company will actually see much of the benefit of the ratings boost. From my limited understanding of the syndication industry, I would guess that they sell seasons of the show in advance, for a fixed price, with no ability to receive a kick back on ad revenue. Usually, a…

In this 35-page essay, I will make the case for why people who want to systematically drown all puppies and kittens everywhere are in the wrong. I know you’ll disagree with me, but I feel pretty strongly about this, so bear with me.

In defence of Discovery, I think the exploration of ideas in older iterations of Trek was partly a product of the episodic (rather than serialized) format, and the large number of episodes per season. Writers would come in with the nugget of an idea, and then express it through the metaphoric medium of Trek, in…

When I saw this promo, a part of me wanted to snarkily respond, “an old man retired from Starfleet working a wine vineyard in France. Finally, a show that actually gets what Star Trek is all about!”

My point stands regardless. There is a conflict of interest.

She’s a cast member, so that would make more sense. I don’t really know her voice.

Pretty sure the unidentified voice is Gina Torres, but this is very much a teaser rather than a trailer, and I wouldn’t assume she’s actually a character in the series. I’m guessing that they haven’t filmed a whole lot, and that we won’t see any episodes until next January.

Really, we’re going to talk about RT’s self-interest in using Fandango as a purchase validator for people who want to vomit their shitty movie reviews onto the world (because it’s such a privilege that people will forgo buying tickets any other way), and side-step the far more offensive conflict of interest associated…

If this isn’t something at least an hour long (i.e., if it’s just a four minute music video) then I think the most interesting thing about it will be Netflix’s experimentation with a new kind of exclusive content. Short, viral videos have been the domain of YouTube.