Between Stranger Things, Squid Game, Tiger King, Queen’s Gambit, Bridgerton, Lupin, The Witcher, Money Heist, 13 Reasons Why, Maid, You, Inventing Anna, Sex Education, Emily in Paris, Cobra Kai, All of Us Are Dead, Umbrella Academy, The Crown, Ginny and Georgia, Who Killed Sara and Café con Aroma de Mujer, it doesn’t…

You misspelled “Teenage Bounty Hunters”

I don’t actually think it’s that bad an accent - certainly not by the standards of Americans trying to do British accents (though it did dip a few times into the wrong accent in the first episode, I thought). It’s definitely a relief every time we go back to Steven’s relatively ordinary accent after being stuck with…

As someone who hasn’t read the comics, the protagonist is pretty clearly Steven. We’ve been given no reasons to empathise with Marc, who seems almost a parody of an antihero, and who has seemingly no distinguishing features as a character beyond brooding and killing people.

I’m not sure that knowing more about Buffy than about “Jeff Lemire”, whoever that is, is a sign of not knowing about “pop culture”. The “pop” stands for “popular”!

For me, I just find that scenes like that, which obviously would never happen in ‘real life’ but happen all the time in TV shows, and which require the established characters acting out of character, and specifically turning into colossal idiots suddenly for no reason other than to string out the plot, just take me…

Indeed; instead of teasing us with #3, they’ve just flat-out told us that there’s a third AND that they’re not very interesting (oh, great, a brutal killer, how novel and nuanced)... and then gone back to teasing. Not only is the thing they’re teasing now obvious, but it’s not even interesting any more! [if the third…

And Red Dwarf did it before Star Trek (“Back to Reality”, 1992, one of the most acclaimed episodes).

I think it’s safer to assume it’s just a cheat.

Moon Knight as a whole feels very “hey, that Legion thing was good, let’s do one of our own, but make it so that nomal people can watch without getting confused or annoyed”. But yes, the asylum ‘twist’ felt very, very Legion.

I was so pissed off when they made the character go straight into “stupid over-emotional woman” territory. She’s an intelligent woman who can clearly handle herself in dangerous situations and who thinks quickly; so of COURSE the moment someone accuses her husband of something (which she clearly already suspects him…

To be fair, it’s how it always works. Every driver is there because a really rich guy is paying their team... and the team then has to pay the driver. Why doesn’t the rich sponsor just pay the driver directly? I don’t know. I presume there’s some sort of legal or accounting reason why it’s better for the sponsor to…

Every time you reach the end of a line, your brain has to work out which line to start next; this often involves checking several lines (too quickly for you to consciously notice), while replaying the end of the last line to check for semantic/syntactic matches. Having to do this is stressful and increases the chance…

In this case, the price is so hard to pin down partly because there’s currently a hysterical bubble and nobody knows how far it will inflate before it bursts, or when it will burst... but more fundamentally it’s also because the market is so tiny. As you say, one guy might think it’s worth $100, while another thinks…

This is true, and is indeed a problem with the NFT idea. This is why a lot of NFTs are associated with pictures that can be displayed - the picture isn’t the NFT, but it’s a symbolic way to show people that you have the NFT. Of course, to the casual observer it’s also indistinguishable from a picture that isn’t…

Yes, you could make a rival NFT of the item. Think of an NFT as a souvenir of something - the thing itself remains untouched, but you can make as many souvenirs of it as you want. With souvenirs, some are worth more than others: a souvenir of the pyramids bought at the pyramids is probably, all else being equal, worth…

Not quite - emphasising that value is nothing more than market price is a meaningful piece of understanding that many people lack. And it moves us from the fairly philosophical “what is value?” to the concrete “what determines market prices?”, which was a big step for the creation of economics. [early theorists got it…

Well yes - NFTs artificially create scarcity by preventing copying of an item (even if it’s not the item people think they’re buying), but if the thing you’re buying is already one of thousands upon thousands of almost identical things anyway, then NFTs really are pointless. Since copying wasn’t the source of the…

It increases wages, because it increases the demand for labour. All that money taken there by tourists encourages people to sell them good ands services in exchange for their money; but that requires employing people. As the number of jobs on offer increases, either unemployment goes down or (if unemployment is…

I assume the key point is that people on twitter own the rights to their photos and might want compensation (and even if they don’t, that involves a level of communication and legal consideration that by itself will take a bit of time/effort/money); jalopnik want us to give them free photos they can put in their…