Maybe we can get Carly Rae Jepsen to cover it and pair it up with Party For One.

He’s basically what you get when you roll a character with 18 Charisma and make them Chaotic Evil.  He knew how to charm people and absolutely reveled in it. 

> she was refusing the answer because she was offended at the question because it framed Alaskans as provincial

When I was a kid it was Animaniacs or the Simpsons parodying things way too old for me. These days maybe it’s Robot Chicken instead?

The oft repeated refrain in the song is “Do what you want with my body”. I don’t think Lady Gaga has so little self awareness, it had to be intentional.

Seems like you kind of have to be to get all of the organizational details down. Even if the founder is a true music lover, he’s going to need someone who can find a venue, book acts, handle sanitation, handle food, handle transportation, etc...

Crashing it without paying and then getting blotto on acid sounds pretty counterculture to me.

Sandman is way too artsy fartsy for TV anyway.  It would never work on a TV budget unless it was animated.

This series does love to lampshade itself.

Has anything in the history of cinema ever run as hollow as Justice Strauss telling the kids that she can keep them safe at her home?

That may be true in the books, but it’s not implied at all in the series. 

Spoiler alert:

The court is unfair because two of the three judges are downright villains. Everybody else goes along with it because they are villains or terminally stupid and weak willed, which are the only two options for secondary characters in this show.

VFD seemed to be a society of superheroes working with supervillains. It’s kind of weird that it stayed together in the first place. Everybody is joined by their love of science, but completely divided on what they plan to use it for.

On the other hand, of course they were the judges. Anybody watching this series figured that out the instant the show failed to do a closeup on their faces after introducing them.

It was disappointing that the ending was kind of happy. Lemony lied to me!

Ned wasn’t quite so lily white (it’s hard for Lawful Good characters to rebel against a government, or lie to their family about their kids), but he was definitely too good for his own good.

It took me awhile to figure out why the Baudelaires can be so smart and yet fall for such dumb schemes so often. They are what my old DM used to call “Lawful Stupid”. Where your moral compass is so rigidly fixed in place that you are forced into poor circumstances time and time again. Every time someone makes rules,…

The huge danger of the Medusoid Mycelium seems rather undercut when the cure is so readily available.  Everybody treats it like Ebola, but it can be defeated by any reasonably appointed kitchen or any grocery store.  Once the secret of its cure is out there’s really no danger. 

It seems inevitable that the show would be a bit wonky given the source material. I’ve occasionally thought that it might have worked better as a straight up cartoon where people are more forgiving of high wackiness. Making it live action means you have a constant struggle between the realities of life (mass, energy,…

Lewis Tan.  He plays Zhou Cheng for one episode.