The incredibly slow explanation of his various “shocking secrets” was a complete thud.

This season flopped because it was never clear about its rules.

Between this and Game of Thrones, HBO should finally realize that shorter, rushed through, and over-hyped seasons don’t make for good TV. Back to ten episodes or more next season with better character development.

HBO, we need to get back to the park.

Good episode. Anyone else a little puzzled why the crew all decides to go off and “run errands” after driving all the way specifically to be around Claude? Seemed like a weird choice.

The show has definitely lulled after a fantastic start, like other HBO series. What was brilliant tension is becoming sooooooo drab. The pacing, the cinematography with its color palette and blurry establishing shots, the sets, the characters and even their wardrobes (except for Holly). After episode 1 I couldn’t…

This show is 20% story and 80% ominous music... I’m enjoying it in spite of that, because it’s well acted and the story is interesting. But I’ve definitely caught myself reading things on my phone halfway into each episode, and the husband has fallen asleep during the last three episodes, so, propulsive it is not.

Ralph is the Frank Grimes of The Outsiders.

Clearly his greatest role, as the Moorish Idol fish, Gill. I would have like to have learned more about how given the fish is from Africa how he navigated the potential criticism of cultural appropriation, and more importantly, how he learned to breathe underwater.

I’d love the reverse-concept show: Undercover Poor. A struggling working-class person is dressed up fancy to infiltrate rich-person domains: country clubs, GOP fundraisers, galas, etc.

America doesn’t have poor people, just temporarily disadvantaged millionaires. - paraphrasing Steinbeck.

The only thing I’ve gotten enjoyment out of related to Undercover Boss is this skit. Kylo Ren really is the perfect lens to show what so many real bosses are: vain, insecure, abusive. It’s patently ridiculous but also more realistic than anything on the real Undercover Boss.

RIP Kobe.

It was just a stunningly awful trailer that manages to hit all of the late 2010s trailer cliches. Playing a maudlin version of a famously upbeat song over everything? Check. Veering wildly between slapstick and sentimental pap? Check. Cutting to black immediately after the protagonist is introduced, as if to say “yes, …

What a Wonderful World has been used to convey bitter irony in movies so often that now I simply hear it as a sad, depressing song.

Loved him in Zodiac. “Hey ‘Bullitt’! You gonna catch this fuckin’ guy or what?!”

Yeah, that was probably the single most bafflingly bombastic and self-serious trailer I’ve ever seen for a family adventure-comedy.

I have a simple rule: I see a trailer with a song as awful as whatever that version of “What a Wonderful World” is, I don’t watch the movie. 

The last shot of Pesci in The Irishman (playing with the balls in jail) is really devastating. Yes, everyone dies at the end: those who can avoid violence still have to suffer the indignities of old age. It is a terrific film about mortality, Scorsese’s Blackstar.

Lots of good choices. Celebration Rock and Days Are Gone both feel like big oversights to me.