I mean, I love them, but they’re not serious people.

I don’t know if she was a poor consultant or not, but the show definitely made clear that none of these kids were built to run a massive global operation.  They all made questionable and compulsive decisions, regularly, and no one in the company took them the least bit seriously.

Yes. They kind of just ignored all that because it ultimately kills the tension about who wins, because when you think about it, they ALL win ALL the time. It’s all a rigged game to fail upwards. No matter what. Even dipshit Connor comes out with the mansion. We’re the suckers... But throwing too much of that in our…

Pretty much. It’s back to the windowless office for him and water bottles being chucked at him, and no more access to the elite, their parties, the women, their insider information and gossip, and most importantly, no more protection from the Roy family, so he’s totally at Tom and Matsson’s mercy now.

My only problem with Strong’s performances now is that we know how completely method he gets. So Kendall’s spiral of endless misery and destruction has felt increasingly uncomfortable, since I can’t stop thinking about how the actor is deliberately making himself suffer.

I’m split on this, and I think along the same lines you do. I don’t think “Kiss The Girl” needed the update, but I can see it and I don’t think it ruins the song or changes anything. Seems rough on the meter based on the quoted new lyrics, but I’m no musician.

One thing that needs to be said about all of these (and a few that aren’t listed, like BSG) is that the common factor for most in making them terrible is not just how much they punted on the implied underlying narrative of the show, but how much that narrative mattered to its previous cohesiveness. In turn, this…

That whole episode, I just winced every time Greg opened his mouth. He’s cut from the same mold as Tom, but Tom at least has the barest ounce of (something like) loyalty to balance against his opportunism. Greg is pure opportunism at its most bald-faced and grasping. 

Honestly Ewans speech was good and James Cromwell was so amazing that  for me his speech just over wrote Shiv’s and Kendalls. Ewan was a man who hated and loved his brother and now he has to bury him and Ewan was the eldest. He did it so well MVP for me 

“We are bookend millennials,”
does that mean one of you was born in 1999 and the other in 1000?

“Will owns a minority share in a hipster bar in Downtown L.A.”
One of those jobs that only exists in stupid things with Seth Rogen in them because nobody in the real world could possibly make a living that way.

Oh yeah any of ya’ll gonna be reviewing Silo?

I always associate Booker T & the MGs with summertime music, their most well known being Green Onions:

The Cars “Magic” is my favorite Summer song. The 1st line in the song is “Summer” 

Ahem.

I didn’t notice that but that’s idiotic. Thanos is far from my favorite character but he should probably be #1 on this list. He’s the center of the Marvel universe. He’s certainly more consequential than Black Panther — a character that technically doesn’t even appear in his own sequel.

I like his movie, but he and Captain Marvel are two of the blandest characters on this list.

Conspicuously absent (with good reason): Danny Rand

I’d put Eternals right at the very fucking bottom. Travesty of a movie that doesn’t fit AT ALL in the rest of the MCU.