Queen’s Gambit was 7 episodes, and that’s about the cutoff for binging. Longer than that and you have to separate into multiple nights (I did QG in two nights).

...if it came out weekly. It would be buzzed about, theorized about, and even more popular as it stayed in the conversation for 2 months plus.

I certainly enjoy binging shows myself sometimes, although my definition is more multiple episodes a week. I don’t get much out of the shows I watch personally, by shotgunning them down in 2 or 3 days, but to those that do, to each their own I say.

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…

I didn’t mind Evan Peters reprising his role, and Ryan Reynolds basically owns the role of Deadpool.  But, I’d like to see new actors in the other roles.  Give someone else a chance to play those roles.

This is more true than not (although the continued splintering and increasing costs of streaming services, as well as their general lack of concern for ‘great cinema’, will test this in years to come). But we’ve essentially made a trade-off of ‘accessibility’ for ‘quality’, and I’m not sure that’s a good deal.

There’s always been an element of gatekeeping and general better-than-you with movies. A quick way to tell is when somebody calls it “cinema” or sometimes even “films”.

Buffy was that great though.  It’s Joss who wasn’t.

Didn’t realize this was a No Humor Zone.

I was making fun of people who say “I never liked him anyway” whenever a celeb is exposed as an asshole. Sure, I imagine some of the people who say things like that are sincere, but other times it feels like trying too hard.

An 80's cheap fantasy along the lines of Hawke the Slayer is the only way to go.

I assert that Wayne’s World didn’t mock blatant product placement in so much as subvert the idea of product placement - which is typically integrated into the narrative - by performing it in such a deliberate way even tho the characters objected to it. The joke was in the way the movie gave itself a free pass.

Perfect Strangers would be a great choice, because it really was so 80s.  The “Balki” equivalent could be any outsider.

The guy’s an asshole, but this is terrible. Here is my story about meeting Screech.

Revenge is in fact prime time soap trash, but the first season was fun (I never made it through the series).

This is the first knee-jerk, twitter mob overreaction that’s really gotten to me since I feel like I know John Roderick’s views pretty well from listening to him speak for hundreds of hours. At the very least, better than the twitter mob that have been posting ridiculously misinformed bullshit. Anyone that’s listened…

To be fair, if you read John Roderick’s actual apology and not just AVC’s spin on it, that is pretty much exactly what he’s saying too.

I can definitely see why someone would think that. But I do believe him that he was intending to be sarcastic. Some of the accompanying tweets are no longer available, but if you look at the larger conversation, you can recognize the sarcasm. Though that doesn’t make it okay at all. And you’re right that he likely has…

Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor would like a word. Maybe they could tell you that you can tell them apart by thinking about it for half a second.

This is one of those shows that multiple people have sworn to me is actually good, but where my cognitive dissonance that it could possibly be good is too strong to overcome.