And the best moments from those seasons have little or nothing to do with overarching plot. Hurley throwing the burrito at Ben, “The Constant” which is at its core a self-contained sci-fi/Twilight Zone episode, Juliette and Sawyer's relationship, etc.

Lost kinda perfectly encapsulates this whole thing, because after season 3 the seasons got shorter and shorter and focused more and more on the plot and less on the characters, and those later seasons suffer for it. 

I think people in the comments are conflating “longer seasons” with “longer fully serialized seasons”. The idea is that longer seasons would be more episodic, they’d be a common space where you can hang with the characters rather than worry about an overarching story.

I know the past is just a big lump of mashed potatoes to young people, but the Smothers Brothers were not a “television mainstay” during the 1950s.

Interesting, this is one of the few positive reviews. It’s getting pretty lambasted elsewhere. Hard to tell if the critics smell blood for DC and this will be a campy fun adventure. I’d imagine it’s probably somewhere in between - I didn’t think the first Aquaman was quite as fun as other people, though certainly it…

This made me actually laugh, thanks.

Talk about smelling it and dealing it!

Not yet but once we bottle them they're gonna sell like hot cakes.

Seriously, why didn’t the person also ask why was Flash a bomb at 50+ Million!?

Yikes, does something this self-evident really need to be explained to people? If so, let me add that Wonka has already made $150 mil globally, and is on pace to make more globally than The Marvels by, likely, a hefty amount. It will be more successful irrespective of budgets.

Can't remember a year where box office seemed so closely tied to quality and reception. I really hope that's a trend that continues. 

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I’m still disappointed in M3GAN’s final act, because for much of it’s run time, it was a shockingly smart, satirical, and affecting movie about the modern tech landscape. I still really liked it (especially compared to what I thought it would be going into it) but if it had stuck the landing it could’ve been an…

Killing of a Sacred Deer has gradually become one of my favorite and most thought-about movies. The Favourite felt a little more mainstream, but this seems more in the delightfully fucked up vein that he does better than any current director. Can’t wait. 

It’s kind of ageist to assume that because they’re old that they don’t know what they’re getting into and aren’t also trying to get money or fame or sponsorship opportunities. They’re also specifically aware of this particular show, which has been on since they were 35-40, and they were cast like any of the other…

Oh wow that Godzilla showing is pretty good, right? I've seen zero marketing for it in the US, but has def had good word of mouth. Definitely feels like a sea change this year for the movies. 

I got tricked by a generic tagline and scifi label into watching The Shift, and my heart sank when I saw the Angel Studios logo came up. They’re pulling the same pay it forward scam that they did with Sound of Freedom (My theater showing was nearly full on the app, and then only about a dozen people showed up) but it…

Reading about it doesn’t do it justice so I encourage everyone to watch some video clips and take note of how Musk is constantly looking out into the audience after every comment, desperately seeking any kind of approval. It’s quite sad and pathetic. He never started from a good baseline anyway, but you can see how…

Based on this I’d imagine Barrera wasn’t fired for her comments, and that was just a smokescreen for scrapping this iteration of Scream because of the loss of Ortega. And I’d imagine Barrera was probably asking for more since she’d now be the sole lead, and they jumped on her posts to pretend it wasn’t because of the…

I know I harp on this a lot, but the more lingering praise I see lavished on dreck like Scream 6, the more baffled I get. I’ve never seen a horror series do so incredibly little to step outside of its own box five sequels in. Michael Myers was dealing with a cult, and we had a mask movie. We had a non-Jason Jason,…