And lest we forget, the lead character in the movie was a Scotsman played by a Frenchman pretending to be able to speak English.

If you haven’t seen The Witcher on Netflix, it is a very silly show which spared many expenses and is incomprehensibly edited, but Cavill is fantastic in it. I’ve been re-watching it this week. He has several deadpan line readings of “Fuck” that are the stuff of legend. And although the show is light on action (for…

I have gone back and found the story on the AV Club, it was indeed a little over 6 months ago, and he was extended through to the end of 2021.

This is interesting because it wasn’t that long ago (maybe 6 months?) that Fallon’s contract was renewed for one more year, if I recall correctly. People at the time were characterizing that as a vote of confidence in Fallon, but I thought it was exactly the opposite, because most late night hosts contracts are much…

I love Joel’s cadence, and Trace is my favourite Crow, just from a personality perspective. So even when all the riffs fall flat (either because they’re too dated, too regional, or simply not funny to begin with), I’m still in a happy place watching the early season episodes.

Charlotte Rampling is such a Brit, I would have never guessed she could perform in French. And on looking it up, apparently she’s performed in Italian, too.

Fun fact, the voice actor for King Shark on The Flash, David Hayter, is also the voice of Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid.

Are you talking about Shkreli? That dude was not “big pharma”. Big pharma is Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, Teva, etc... Shkreli was CEO of “Turing Pharmaceuticals”. Also, he was convicted of fraud for his work as a hedgefund manager before he became a pharma CEO.

It was a sincere moment, and those have been too rare in mainstream entertainment of the last twenty years. The “very special episode” of 90s TV (Full House, Saved By The Bell) became such a fixture of mockery that anything approaching sincerity is now immediately salted with a side-eyed wink that “haha we know this…

I am a big consumer of both MST3K and Rifftrax, and definitely agree that they have different identities. Rifftrax is really purely about the riffing, in the early going their concept was that they wouldn’t even pay for the rights to the movie, they’d just release an audio track that you’d sync to the movie. And that…

What I find fascinating is the mix of utterly terrible elements with some stuff that seems utterly fantastic. Like the original song in the trailer is really good, the cast around Lebron is outrageously talented (Don Cheadle, SMG as his wife, even the child actor playing the kid pops), and the visual effects are…

I do think there is unexploited potential to teach a meaningful lesson on consent by parodying a character who pursues their romantic interest “persistently”. That is bigger than just Pepe, it was a really common trope of 80s and 90s teen movies, and a bunch of sitcoms, for a relatively unappealing male character to…

Also, the problem is with the serial rapist who played the Cosby character, rather the character itself. The character is wholesome pop culture, I don’t see what would be achieved by distancing yourself (even further) from a parody of it.

CBS procedurals deliver an emotional rollercoaster that includes some “scary” elements—a beautiful protagonist is held hostage by a comically sinister villain (usually disfigured and ugly, and shrouded in darkness) at least once per season—but the rollercoaster follows an extremely predictable trajectory and always…

I am generally in favour of a once per week release schedule (more on that below), but I do think the binge formula works pretty well for some Netflix shows, particularly the ones that are written from the start to be binged — like Stranger Things. It’s more of an ~7 hour movie than an 8 episode series, with a…

Total viewers for recent episodes of NCIS are in the range of 10 million, with a score in the 18-49 demo of less than 1.0. A 1.0 is equivalent to 1% of the 18-49 population or about 1.2 million. So we’re talking here about maybe 15% of total viewers are under the age of 50.

I said mostly senior citizens, the proportion of the audience is really heavily titled to the elderly, but young people have anxiety, too. I occasionally go out of my way to rewatch Columbo, FFS.

Beautiful people and/or people with soothing radio voices behaving predictably—CBS procedurals are anti-anxiety medication, consumed mostly by senior citizens.

Break-ups with Kristin Bell are 2/8 of this list. I’m not devastated, bump me up in line please and thank you. Haven’t you lived a sufficiently fulfilled and perfect life, Dax Sheppard?

I really wanted Full House just for the meta wink that it starred Olsen’s sisters.