When I saw the title of the new show I thought someone was finally smart enough to gather the whole Skarsgard family and have them do a show about the Norse gods.

This might be bad for small movies (and small theaters) but it might be good for moviegoers. One of the reasons going to the movies is so expensive is that you pay the studio and the theater separately. The ticket price goes to the studio, the concessions go to the theater. It’s one of the reasons food prices are so…

Seriously, he was in full armor and the Jawas were throwing stones and pieces of metal at him, and he was disintegrating them. That’s fucked up!

I am trying to get into it, and I know we’re going for a little bit of a gritty PG-13 vibe here, but The Mandalorian kills a lot of beings in this episode who don’t really deserve to die, even for an ambivalent hero. Neither the Jawas or the beast is really a villain worthy of death here and there’s no indication, exce…

Another twist I wasn’t expecting, so I will eagerly await what Mike Shur has cooked up for the new moral system Chidi will try to design, but I think they have a real problem, since Albert Brooks already designed and filmed the most intellectually and morally satisfying version of the afterlife possible.

When I saw the title, I just assumed it was an 21st Century Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man with better actors, and I am not sure whether I am relieved or disappointed...

This was the best episode of the season so far. As the show ages (or I do) I find their more overtly political episodes less and less fun. They tend to be way too on the nose and heavy handed, the Thundergun episode being an exemplar. The horribleness of the gang in weird situations, with maybe some asides about “the…

An excellent episode. I did get the “girl” thing, but the Glenn thing was complicated. I guess the plan was to manipulate Michael into exploding himself? Diabolical...

This seems to skew a pretty old for the CW, but I guess they figure they can try to keep their Supernatural audience.

I feel like we need a Donna Bowman post-air review to put this in its proper Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe perspective...

I agree that both Janet and Michael are acting suspiciously here and think there is definitely something going on with that train switch, but Michael’s ability to do anything he wants to this constructed universe seems to have been established, even if not explicitly.

All of this is right, and the problem of prequel for films that start with the bad guys in charge. The Star Wars prequels being the ultimate failure. The other problem with prequels is what Star Trek Discovery was doing, which was adding a whole bunch of stuff that couldn’t possibly have happened if the original show…

I don’t know what this is, but an unscripted Muppet show with celebrity guests sounds like an actual version of the Kermit talkshow that was the show-within-a-show from the ABC sitcom, and I would be absolutely fine with that.

One hint at Edgar Allen Poe, but no love for Dumas, Twain, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, or Dickens? That is a lot of popular pop culture to miss...

I feel like Random Roles should do an interview with Eric Allan Kramer, who mostly does TV but has been in everything for 30 years.

Like any good person I don’t want Disney to win every time, but this isn’t good. The Marvel Spiderman movies were good, the Sony Spiderman movies were bad. Seems dumb to celebrate more of the latter and fewer of the former, even if it does stick it to Disney. 

The first season of Mr. Mercedes was really good. There was also some good stuff in the second season but the last episode was a travesty, completely negating the value of most everything we had watched in the first nine episodes.

I hated this ending. It was morally repugnant. All the horrible things David did through the last season and a half and it works out exactly as planned, with no cost to anyone? Even Syd gets a happy ending despite the transformation that won’t happen because she won’t likely find the mutants or a person she can touch…

I’m looking forward to this show, but am still annoyed by the teenage daughter angle. Not that the 72-year old Danson can’t have a teenage daughter, but wouldn’t it be more interesting to have him rebuild a relationship with an estranged 30 or 40 year old daughter and maybe his granddaughters?

I know they are playing Debbie more as a face in this season than last, but I really thought she was being the selfish one this time, not Bash. She wanted to end the show because it was interfering with her life. She didn’t ask any of the other girls if they wanted it to end either, she was just going to try to kill…