I used to be an officer in the U.S. Navy. I did two tours on nuclear submarines that carried nuclear missiles. The missiles were programmed before launch by a room-size device called the “Digital Geo-Ballistic Computer”.

His mom angrily informing on him

Hadn’t heard of that. Just read about it. It does sound awful.

Melanie Lynskey is listed in the cast.

I was all ready to submerge myself in this complicated new universe of world building and psychohistory and new characters...

I concur with this strategy. I am retired, free on weekday afternoons and have an excellent, reserved seat theater with food and booze service less than ten minutes from my house. I will likely see it multiple times in the theater then more at home (I already have HBOMax).

a promo video of civilians enthusing about the movie

Why wasn’t this guy cast as the young Han Solo? This is uncanny:

It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now.

OMG! Let's go to the mall -- and vote!!!

Looks at lede photo: “Oh, what’s new with Teri Garr?”

Shout-out to Virginia:

I’m still waiting for an adaptation of Stranger In A Strange Land.

I overheard this while getting a coffee at the very same Chilmark General Store on Martha’s Vineyard (which is in Massachussetts):

Workcation - 1970s version:

I took a seven hour tour of the Warner Brothers studio a few years ago. At one point our tram stopped outside a small warehouse looking building. We all got off and the guide typed some code onto the door security keypad. We walked through the door into a totally dark room. We heard the guide say, “You might like…

I found this after you mentioned Ulrich. Just one example of the bonkers casting in this show.

Are you me? I logged in to up-comment the same two shows.

I was there for almost a week. Lots of good memories.

Not mentioned in the article: Barberry also has nasty spiny thorns. Lorapetalum is a nice alternative. It holds these blooms for about two weeks in my area (zone 8).