This show is a great counterpoint to the Martin Scorsese-type folks who detest superhero movies for dumbing down popular entertainment. This is ambitiously odd on a scale that has usually been reserved for Twilight Zone / Black Mirror, except that its the next entry in the most profitable “cinematic” franchise in the…

Reports of their demise were slightly exaggerated.

I binged the first couple seasons over the past week, and good lord was season 2 a disappointment after season 1. Season 1 was a masterpiece, and season 2 was outright bad. Huge drop-off.

I’m not letting you kill my buzz, this was a fantastic episode, one of the best “part 1" Trek cliffhangers in decades.

I too saw that and said “wtf”, and searched a couple of databases for it. I truly do not think it exists. Just a bizarre typo. Or a *really* obscure movie.

Bladerunner grossed $260 million (including international box office) on a $150 million budget, which isn’t that terrible. Once you net out theater’s share of revenue and marketing costs, it probably was a loser, but not a huge one. You also have some money for DVD/streaming that isn’t captured by the $260 million.

I have sympathy for the directors who’ve lost control of how their artistic work is experienced, but two points: (1) welcome to the club, that’s the experience of everyone else in film production who isn’t the director, and (2) it’s the studio’s money that financed these films, and they are the ones have the most to…

Well, now if I run into Flynn at a party (this is unlikely, to be clear) I can just avoid her. That explanation lines up with the motivation given in the dialog (something like, “There’s only room for one leader”) that I thought was completely random. Flynn talks about making a drinking game of the number of times the…

SPOILER again, if you missed it from the comment above.

I binged the series, on a day when I was depressed and would do anything to procrastinate confronting my problems, and found it to be an uncanny valley imitation of a good show, rather than actually being a good show (not good enough to enjoy for being good, not bad or self-aware enough to enjoy as campy).

Two thoughts: (1) the directing sucked, and (2) Discovery has been consistently weak when it comes to weaving recurring characters back into the plot. Overall I did mostly enjoy the episode—I enjoy the series as a whole and eagerly look forward to every episode, but graded on a curve with other episodes, I had some…

Aww. I missed that (I’d have also missed the USS Nog if that hadn’t been pointed out). I do appreciate those memorials, subtle though they may be.

Costas strikes me as a fantastic choice if the objective is to try and match Alex’s energy. He’s not faux-enthusiastic or bubbly, he’s dry, precise and polite, but has a bit of disdain bubbling underneath, and feels like he’s always on the brink of knifing someone in the back with a cutting jab that they didn’t see…

I got my foot in the door with a Series X, kind of just because I found an opportunity where I *could*, and figured I’d buy it eventually anyways.

Holiday haze, I hadn’t even noticed. 13 of the 16 New Who Christmas specials have been on the 25th—so I’m not crazy to have made that association—but there have been the three exceptions on Jan 1st (the last two, and in 2010).

I think Dec 25 would be a really good guess for when it will air, but what do I know.

Georgiou’s line, “you had me at unsanctioned mission”, made me think about how wild it would be if we were still referencing a line from Jerry Maguire 1,000 years from now as part of casual speech. That’s not a criticism of the writing—a show that included references to fictional future pop culture would be…

Have Ted Cruz’s whereabouts on the night of the “like” been accounted for?

I gather from your question that you’re looking for an interview-style podcast, but I’ll boost three pure-comedy podcasts that I’ve found exceptionally entertaining, and have much more respect for your time than most interview podcasts.

Bryce Dallas Howard demonstrates some serious chops as a director, again. She’s an established name as an actor, but has no serious directing credits beyond Mandalorian, and I think we may look back on this in 20 years as the beginning of an illustrious directing career. Nepotism probably plays a role in her getting…