And in the case of JJ, they ended up padding/spinning wheels because they didn’t want to resolve killgrave but weren’t at the end. All the Netflix marvel shows are longer than they need to be, but the *filler* isn’t interesting because they don’t do one-offs or “.. of the week.” They just circle around the overarching…

Also, as someone who likes Steven Yeun, I don’t think the success of Thunderbolts is going to hang on his presence or absence.

I’m with you on the episode count, but I’m not sure about the important/interesting distinction. I remember watching the first season of Jessica Jones and being baffled that a show about a private detective had zero cases of the week. Or maybe there was one, but it turned out the case was a trap and it all just became…

Ehh I don’t know, most 20+ season shows do have a lot of episodes that are boring or unnecessary.  Rewatching 12 Monkeys recently makes me think that tight ~12 episode seasons are the way to go.

This is devastating news.

But neither Fun Boy Three nor Bananarama have been nominated.

I still think Anthony Hopkins playing Tom Huddleston playing Loki playing Odin ( while watching Sam Neill play Sam Neill playing Odin no less !)  is still the best performance in a Marvel movie .( especially the “oh shit!”when he sees Thor striding through the crowd to get to him ). But overall , yeah Hiddlestons Loki…

I was looking forward to the Dark Universe because I like monsters, but there were going to be some significant hurdles, which clearly Universal couldn’t clear:

We could’ve gotten The Golden Palace, Frasier-style?

The problem isn’t that Scorsese is against comic book movies. If anyone has a right to comment on the state of cinema and have an opinion, it’s him.

Does this church have a newsletter? Because I need a subscription.

Exactly: Suchet is the Poirot, just as Jeremy Brett is the Sherlock Holmes.

Obviously this is limited to movie adaptations, but I think the fact I’d rank most of David Suchet’s Poirot above all the films on this list I’ve seen is partially down to the fact that Christie’s works generally work best on the small screen. You can lavish up the production design, but fundamentally whodunnits are…

Waltz’s Blofeld was more than a missed opportunity - they absolutely botched the character in almost every way.

Arthur Smith’s greatest gift to comedy was challenging Tony Hawks to the bet that led to Hawks’s excellent book Playing the Moldovans at Tennis.

Arthur Smith. It feels like he’s been around forever, and I first saw him on tv in the 90s, though I’d never seen him live until now, and won’t be making that mistake again.

From what I’ve heard there are a lot of comedians doing AI themed sets up at the Edinburgh Festival this year and not many of them are any good.…

I feel like you’re implying something.

Maybe I’m not watching the right movies/TV shows, or live in the wrong area, but I have not seen nearly as much advertising for BB as this article implies there is.

There’s also something to be said for the role that basically said to the world, “Oh shit, pretty boy can act!”

And then The Wasp beat the X-Men on her own.