Well, the Rolling Stone piece doesn’t mention contracts, only Guggenheim being told by Warner that it wouldn’t be marketed as a separate miniseries. The reasons behind this could be numerous, possibly contractual. But I suspect he’s talking about taking the several episodes from the different series and then releasing…

I figured it was more trying to manipulate the sweeps ratings for the individual shows. I can’t imagine getting contractual clearance for a crossover miniseries would be much different than whatever lets them put the different characters into different shows already, but then again Hollywood law is complicated enough…

It’s still annoying that they divide these crossover episodes among the various shows, when they should probably presented as standalone miniseries or TV movie like those old-school movies that networks would make bringing together a lot of the stars of their different shows. It would certainly make presenting the…

The scene of young Margaret getting a dressing down for suggesting she have a bigger role to play in royal affairs in the future to me demonstrated a certain shortsightedness on the part of the royal handlers. Sure, everyone knows that Elizabeth is the heir apparent, but Margaret at that point is technically the…

It’s not as if they didn’t have other actors carry over from the previous seasons, such as the brief Tommy Lascelles cameo, and Lithgow as Churchill. While David may have had more scenes to play, it’s not as if he were a major character in the season either, so the casting carryover wouldn’t have seemed odd at all…

The episode was well timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing (and debuted around the time of the Apollo 12 anniversary).

As to the motivation for Philip’s mid-life crisis, his mother died in December 1969, five months after Apollo 11. So this looks like another instance of the show playing around with the timeline for narrative effect (not that a chunk of it is fictionalized anyway).

I’d be a bit surprised if South Park did screeners. Since they have such a late production cycle, the episodes usually aren’t finished until the day they air. So that would negate any sort of physical screener, and I suppose they could send a digital screener, but given the time constraints just for the network to set…

There are some details mentioned that don’t match the episode I saw.

I appreciated that Liberty Ruth’s alter ego was the bubbly farmer girl, which brought to mind Farmer’s Daughter, one of the staple characters of the original GLOW. I was hoping she’d even be an American Farmer girl as her ‘Freaky’ character, but then she went back to Liberty Belle.

I was a bit miffed that they couldn’t wrangle up Jennifer Jason Leigh for a cameo as Brian’s wife at the funeral scene. Instead they just have some rando extra with a kid crying over his death, who don’t even rate proper character names in the credits, or are even mentioned until that point (though Brian is wearing a…

Well, to be fair, Nora Darhk is played by Brandon Routh’s real-life wife.

Yeah, but those tended to be the exceptions to the rule, and why I said pretty much every alien — by which I was mostly referring to the one-off planet of the week type aliens. The Ferengi were supposed to be a recurring threat so they actually developed the makeup.

Once again, the writers of this show demonstrate they have no idea how the U.S. government operates (or they are just ignoring it to suit their dramatic purposes, which may be worse).

So, the whole idea of Lena not recognizing Kara as Supergirl has been called out as absurd for years by the fans, to the point where everyone just expects a scene in which Lena admits she knew the whole time (like Capt. Singh knowing Barry was The Flash). And not only do they never do that, they double down on the…

Yeah. When he first walked in and they ask him how tall he is, and he says 6-2, they get giddy as if he’s the guy, sight unseen. Hilarious.

I didn’t remember it at first, but a few days earlier I read that the last joke on the show was a callback to the first episode, so once it was over I flipped HBO Go back to the first episode.

The Tom Hanks ending was a great callback to the first episode, when Mike made the offhand remark that maybe Selina’s latest scandal would be overshadowed by even bigger breaking news, like if Tom Hanks died. Yep, finally something Selina did was overshadowed by Tom Hanks dying. (Though certainly Hanks must be…

Superb reaction from Hader to Sally’s epic rant — wide-eyed shock which he rolls into yet another slapstick line-reading.

Seeing the Twitterverse up in arms about Dany making a supposedly “out of character” heel turn is rather amusing. Despite all her claims of support for “justice,” at her core she’s a manipulative bully who believes the throne is her destiny. This has always been the case, regardless of how “good” a ruler her followers…