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I actually rather liked this one, a lot more than I thought I would. I admire them having the guts to go with this ending, and the connected message: you can and should try everything humanly possible to bring out the best in people, in their interest and in the interest of society ... but...

Man, I love this show, but "here is a flamboyant dipshit; you'll immediately realize his dipshittery is going to have catastrophic consequences; spend all season wondering about their extent and nature" is definitely the least favorite aspect of it for me.

I'm kinda happy we're actually going all Swan Lake and everything's not OK in the USSR. I'm also kinda apprehensive, given that the show hasn't so far shown an overly deep understanding of the nature of the USSR and of its collapse. Namely, that it was essentially a prison of peoples...

I was moderately excited for this movie, but ended up disliking it quite profusely. Rest under spoiler tag.

I find it especially odd that somebody allegedly took umbrage at discovering a somewhat inclusionist bend ... in a TV show ... called For All Mankind.

IIRC it was about why he doubled down on certain ... questionable choices ... made in S2 in the making of S3. Tried to find the exact quote now but have failed so far ...

I read somewhere that RDM basically felt empowered by the negative fan reaction; the more people complained, the more pleasure it gave him to continue with this story line. Which nicely shows that ... yes, it's true that creative folks shouldn't be controlled by fans in what they do or don't...

Finally got to seeing The Road Home, and .. well. It gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling to return to the B5 universe, however briefly, but I didn't actually feel like it added overly much to the epos. I have the same issue here as I have with all later B5 installments: JMS basically told the...

Watched all eps now; my personal ranking: Joan is Awful Beyond the Sea Loch Henry Demon 79 Mazey Day Joan is Awful: This was Black Mirror doing what it does best. Zany off-the-wall concept that actually has a reasonable explanation behind it that was not obvious (at least not to me - I should...

Glad it's not just me. Gotta see where they go with it, but I have this sinking feeling we're heading towards a message of how we need all be more open-minded (...towards a "profession" of charlatans who prey on the weak and exploit people's grief to squeeze them for money - yeah, I'm going to...

Not sure she was supposed to be wearing purple, though. On Breaking Bad, they had her dressing all in black from the moment she learned of Hank's death, and I understood the traumatic transformation symbolized by her wardrobe change to be a permanent one.

Man I was so split about the critical exchange between Ed and Danny. Storytelling-wise, it was excellent, and I loved Ed telling Danny to piss off with the idea of jeopardizing his daughter's life to buy himself some kind of instant absolution. But there's also the pragmatic part of me that was...

Somehow the Bill / Aleida rift in this latest episodes was one of the saddest things of the show so far for me. I absolutely adore(d) their dynamic, and it's a shame it's likely over.

Danny admits it to Karen in season 1 right after Shane's death, so unless Danny was self-depreciatingly lying already as a kid, I think we're supposed to take it at face value.

Nit-picky, but there kind of was. The second reactor, which made their sacrifice necessary, was never disclosed to the public.

Yes, this was a common practice across the Communist World. (What follows is mostly based on experiences people from different countries have shared with me over the years, so hearsay alert.) Not just in military operations, in *any* group of people doing anything deemed sensitive by the...

Feels tacky to self-quote, but ... ... since we're discussing this anyway, I feel like I should elaborate. Yes, the Soviet Union is being portrayed in an antagonistic manner and the Russians are "the baddies", but it's done so in a way that completely aligns with my experiences. Regardless of...

One abstraction that works for me to differentiate between good drama (Margo & Sergei) and bad drama (anything related to Danny) is if the actions of the involved parties are relatable to the viewer at the time. With the Margo & Sergei story line, messed up as the situation has become and uneasy...

It's bewildering that, with all the great things going for them, they're even in a subsequent season feeding that plot tumor. Man I spend so much time just literally cringing watching this ep. Looks like they're setting it up for drama in that Danny is going to be part of the NASA mission. Let's...

John DiMaggio is pretty enthusiastically retweeting things saying that it won't be Futurama without him, so pretty clear he is trying to bump up the offer. If they're offering too little or he's expecting too much, what do I know, but man is it lame to watch this playing out in public.