Aykroyd was my dream casting for Nite-Owl back in the late 1980s. With Redford as Ozymandias and Dennis Farina as The Comedian.

Some good insights in the review, but also some assumptions and interpretations of the OGN that I don’t think are necessarily borne out:

If we’re doing fixes, getting the title to read “Silk SPECTRE” would be a good place to start. . .

If we’re being prurient (and why wouldn’t we be), I’d vote for Melissa’s outfit in the monologue. Yowza. Heidi usually brings the heat in that department, but last night I was giving thanks for Melissa in a thankless role.

Implied but never stated, at least in the original. I don’t recall if they made it more explicit in BEFORE WATCHMEN, but I don’t imagine Lindelof feels beholden to those.

It’d be a retcon, but a fairly minor one. You could even justify it as “unreliable narrator” since that appearance was in Sally’s memories.

I was pretty sure the kid was supposed to be the old man, but I was sure of it when I noticed the kid had the same mole next to his eye as Gossett.

I was wondering at first why the cops were even looking for Jesse in the movie - with no survivors, how would anyone know Jesse was even AT the Nazi compound? But then I realized the CSIs would notice Todd was strangled (not shot by Walt’s machine gun) and check the prints on the chain. . .

. . . criminals, junkies, or Steve Gomez. . .

People like to claim he just played himself, but Nicholson was straight-up the Englehart/Rogers “Laughing Fish” Joker. I wish he was 30 pounds lighter, but it’s an otherwise very creditable portrayal of that version of the character.

I goof on Franco’s frequent pretensions as much as the next guy, but his direction of the brothers this week was terrific. The blocking and FX work in this episode - both the moving cold open and when Vincent holds the dying Frankie - were seamless. Much better than the family party an episode or two ago.

All three leads in MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE were fantastic. The fact that Romano could hold his own with Andre Braugher (and co-created the show) raised him fairly high in my esteem.

Here’s a weird one. Back in the early 1990s, a screenwriting professor of mine very matter-of-factly said Martin rewrote the original ROCKY and that “everyone knew it.” Yet I’ve never seen mention of this anywhere else.

Such a well-reasoned response.

“It’s not what you expect” and “It’s very, very good” were not meant to correlate, sorry. “The show is not what one would expect, story-wise”, might be a better way to put it.

As someone who loved the book and thought the movie missed the mark (Rorschach, Comedian, and title montage notwithstanding). . .

FRIENDS was very, very good in it’s day. Not SEINFELD good, but clever-than-usual scripts being performed by six actors with killer comedy timing.

That 2019 writers keep doing drivebys on FRIENDS on the weeks they’re not doing deep-dive reappraisals of GOLDEN GIRLS or effusing over the “Why Don’t He Want Me?” episode…

I watched the special last night. You can choose to like it or not, but the quotes above pretty much leave out the jokes. They’re not a complete or accurate representation of what Chappelle said.

It’s more than a bit like Lenny Bruce being upset in his indecency trial when his material was judged based on a beat cop’s…

She-Hulk doesn’t *need* to be CG. Marvel just need to find a tall, muscular woman who can act. Makeup will do the rest. She-Hulk is big, but not inhumanly so.

I just hope they have the balls to cast Charlie Cox as an unnamed “counselor” to oppose her in a few cases. . .

If this is from Feige’s side of things, there’s a good chance. If it’s from Marvel TV, you’re right - no chance.