Oh yeah the interviews around the final season are full of very tired people who deeply want this experience to be over.

Good episode and one which brought back a lot of memories of working in media during that first year of the pandemic.

I remember that period well.

I’ve been meaning to rewatch Nemesis for a while. I absolutely did not like it upon release and the last time I watched it was about 2007 when it still didn’t work. There was so many wrong-headed decisions and weird things about it that obscure the good parts.

They’re a terrific band live. I’ve been lucky to see them three times with three different line ups (a four-part in 2009 without Christine, the full Rumours-era line-up in 2015 and the Buckingham-less version featuring Neil Finn in 2019).

Given they’re using AI to create listicals and other shit for this website, I find it hilariously ironic that they’re taking a strong stance against it otherwise. 

It’s really excellent. I re-read the first 70 or so issues during the pandemic and it holds up brilliantly.

Some of the books fell apart faster than others.

That was very much the vibe Marvel went for with its Ultimate line in the 2000s. The first few years felt fresh as hell because everything was unencumbered by the decades of continuity and without a lot of the weird baggage from previous eras.

And mind control. His love of mind control stories, particularly involving his female characters.

One of the smartest things the 2000 film did was have the team already in place and introduce us to the world of it through Wolverine and Rogue. 

Now that’s a show I’d be keen to revisit.

God he sounds like an insufferable cunt.

Absolutely. It’s the joy of soap operas in that the crazier and sillier they get, the better they are.

I like 808s. It’s a  really interesting album. Kanye for me started to completely implode with Life of Pablo. 

Oh yeah agreed. Never Let Me Down is really bad.

Pop is a weird one in that it is, I would argue, one third an excellent album, and the rest of it is not great. Sadly, the four or five great songs on it were all unfinished at the time of the album having to be sent off (Discotheque, Staring at the Sun, Last Night on Earth, Gone and God Will Send his Angels).

I agree. Songs of Innocence is a genuinely good album and one which is worth re-listening to. There are so many great tracks, including all-timer U2 track Every Breaking Wave.

Final Cut is super underrated. It’s one I’ve come back to a few times over the years and as I’ve got older I have appreciated it much more. 

Absolutely and so much of the tension and power of it would have been dulled by a year-long wait in the middle.