Sometime during a past season — probably after the episode where Gene escaped from the car trunk and was attacked by the neighborhood dogs — I decided that NoHo Hank, Fuches, and Gene were just phenomenal at being survivors, and that they would be the most likely to be alive by the end of the series. Even with Hank…

While I have faith in the eventual destination, taking the journey of this episode lost me a bit. I can live with the time jump, and the starkness of focusing on Barry and Sally pretending to be other people in the middle of nowhere, but I’m having a hard time witnessing how bad both of them are as parents.

“I think NoHo Hank qualifies as a professional”

This episode brings up a recurring theme of the show: leave the killing to the professionals.

Ricardo Montalban was cast as Khan in 1967 for the original TV show. It wasn’t ideal, but there was no such thing as “ideal” back then.

Nice story, but we’ve had access to the future plans of McDonald’s since 1988:

Yeah, this progression to silver fox is an unexpected development. I think I’ve seen an image or two of James Gunn when was younger, but they made no impression on me. Was there something there?

Searcher Clade (Jake Gyllenhaal)... while on a fateful mission with his father Jaeger Clade (Dennis Quaid)

This is a difficult kind of joke to tell well. Chris Rock did a variation of it in 2004:

That second photo. It’s weird to see Argus Filch smile.

They need someone with an athletic build, so why not an athlete?

The review brings up The Shining, but I feel like there’s a lot of Misery in this, too. Replace the obsessed fan and the snowed-in cabin with a glitchy robot and a locked-in large sunny apartment. Would have seemed less scary a few years ago, but now, after a shelter-in-place pandemic?

Not moved by the trailer, but I get major Edward-Norton-in-Primal-Fear vibes from the teenager who plays the main character. Could just be the haircut.

Now I can’t un-see it.

I happened to record this show Tuesday afternoon, assuming it was a rerun from some previous evening. I didn’t know it was new and first-run until I saw this article.

I look at Alan Ruck’s career as the extension of Cameron Frye’s story. As Ferris predicts, Cameron DOES marry the first girl he lays, and she DOES treat him like shit. He spends his lonely married days imagining himself as an Old West outlaw, a spaceship captain, and an Oklahoma storm chaser, until she finally leaves…

We were warned for years that something bad could happen when “Black Cat” crossed our path.

Gee, I wonder what real-life coach Nick Offerman might try to mimic for this show:

Shouldn’t Michael Mann call the film Reheat?

For a company that could do no wrong, the pandemic era has not been kind to the Mouse House.