DoctorAtomic

I just read it. They did the best they could for an overview to draw in non book readers. I mean, there's way too much to just give 1000 words on it. Shadar Logoth looks great. If anything bringing that map in the beginning of the book to life will be worth it. Logain and Egwene actually look like I thought in my head. Whether anyone does or not isn't going to have any bearing on anything. I was surprised.

I take the point, but I don't think any rules were necessarily violated. Sarah thought she brought the devil into the town because of her hookup. It was Goode, who we would learn genuinely liked her, and who was very, very insistent that she *didn't* invite the devil. At the time of the scene we thought it was because he was into her, and when she said she was a lesbian, he was down to marry her regardless. So she didn't invite the devil or was bad. We see later it was Goode who named the pastor to be possessed. Goode could have already done it at the time of that prior scene. So, there's really no rules violated there. That stands to reason then, that the pastor had the devil in his heart or whatever. Which, a Great Awakening priest that isn't on the up and up and more holy than thou than holy isn't hard for me to buy. Since we know Goode in 1666 was the first one to kick everything off, I think we can take what he said at face value. It also stands to reason that everyone named that we saw in 1994 in the cave was also vulnerable or susceptible to possession, including Sam, which sucks. It furthers the tragedy that Shadyside was deliberately cursed. Clearly, no, because Sam in 1994 wasn't Dexter level bad, but was still possessed. We're all having fun speculating with limited knowledge. We never really got much from the book or from Goode's pov about how or who you name. There could be a list in the book - they have to be 2 of the 7 things on this list, etc. Or where the book came from in the first place. The 'widow's' name was Stone; a la Ruby Stone, so there's got to be some more to that too. There's also the 'split' that was mentioned between the towns, so there's got to be something there that sheds light on everything. The 'rules' could be ridiculously rigid. Like, maybe you only have to be born in Shadyside. It could be that simple. The town was presented as kind of economically depressed, no one ever gets out, etc. So that could be deliberate. That's why I was suggesting a self contained movie that does some more world building. If you go back to Ruby's time, you get a good plot investigating the whole Stone line and relationship with the Goode's. I think the selection of the people isn't random.

No, it's not tv guide. The Sunday paper used to have an insert with the TV listings that came with the paper. TV Guide was a separate subscription, essentially a magazine. 'One of' the blowjob businesses. And a Bazooka Sharks callback. I liked the Hayley and Roger plot. They don't pair a lot.

Mr. Robot was always going to be a limited show in terms of total hours of show anyway. Shows like Monk and Psych couldn't go on forever either, but you're getting 5, 6 years.

Everything is so over complicated in the NFL. Don't celebrate in the other player's face; don't take too long. If you can't gauge that, then don't celebrate.

That's basically what I'm talking about. Know thyself, cable network.

No, I meant the networks are all gunning to grab primo 1% material and aren't consciously looking for 'just good shows' to produce. I think you make more on a steady 'just good shows' and maybe you get a gem in there than gunning high and consistently missing.

It's a great show, and a poster here calling the ending with about 2 episodes to go. I have no idea how USA got it. Maybe they gave the showrunner the creative control he wanted. Mostly yes; a little bit no. You can have 'Drama Thursdays' and have Royal Pains on Tuesday or something. Back in the day, you had these cable outlets just putting out content to beat the band. Lots were miniseries. I think they dropped the ball there where you let your broadcast networks put out the Friends, etc., and your HBO with the cash to do Sopranos. Where does that leave me as a cable outfit? Well, we can have original programming year round and commission a bunch of miniseries and one off two hour movies. You can still get good talent that will draw viewers. Sopranos level? No. Respectable? Sure. SciFi, clearly, wanted to stick to scifi, but they had plenty of cool miniseries and did their primo shows on Fridays. TBS had stuff like Into the West. Another solid mini. I think the problem is, in fact, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men. Those are really anomalies. Just focus on making good shows. Shows aren't allowed to be good anymore.

This is a classic case of knowing who you are. You're USA. Not HBO. There's room for both kinds of shows. Maybe you want to lean 60/40 into the 'darker' shows. Ok. There's still room for tons of content.

I don't think he was an actor as much as a performer, so it's an odd choice to be in a sitcom. From what little I know of Kaufman's history, the 'foreigner' was a character he did, and it seems they just purchased the rights to that character. I'm only on S1 though. I'm not detracting from Kaufman's talent. I don't know if he was liked or not, but in this episode Hirsch seemed tight lipped at best. Clearly, Williams was also a performer, but he was an actor too. Mork was an actual written character. Kaufman seems to just be doing bits in the scenes as the 'foreigner'. I think it was disingenuous of History of the Sitcom to pair Latka with Balki as 'fish out of water' stories. The former is just provably false. If anything Elaine Nardo was the fish out of water and essentially introduced as such in the first episode.

I'm actually watching Taxi now, and I have no idea why Kaufman was on that show. It's a fairly interesting take on the workplace sitcom. It's just a square peg of a role. Didn't look like Hirsch had any idea either. Certainly a great show, but there's no way Freaks & Greeks is a sitcom. I think everyone has a nostalgia for that time so you want to include it. Is Will Smith a producer on the show? I don't see why Fresh Prince is included in every episode. They have way short shrift to those 1940s shows so we could see Carlton dance. Again. I do think it's interesting that the freak, geek, and nerd has evolved in sitcoms to be normalized and leading characters versus a Screech character.

Henry Winkler and Pam Dawber (looking quite fine wow) must also have patience of all the saints. I thought last week didn't really bring anything new, but I'm enjoying this one. Taking the clips they showed here at face value, it seems clear the writers of the show had a perspective they wanted to show. Maybe in 2021, it seems blatant to us. I can buy that the show totally flew by the people they were sending up.

In taking the ending monologue with Pelosi and McCarthy as an example, Bill was pointing out that the responses to McCarthy's (inappropriate, stupid, and unprofessional) comment by the left were way way over the top and histrionic. Whereas saying, 'hey dumbass, don't threaten to hit the speaker of the house over the head with a gavel. Knock it off' would have been better, was what I took was his point on this commentary. He's said on the show plenty of times that these types of responses play right into the gop's hands, so to speak, in terms of 'winning the narrative', which they do tend to do. Not that only the left wants to cancel everything, but that things like this don't help themselves in terms of winning elections. He's pointed out plenty of times on the show that the right has their shit together way tighter and hammer the same (false) narratives in a more unified way. On the show, brings up Fox News people doing this all the time, regardless of any accuracy. I think it's problematic that he's bringing it up so many times on the show, that the point kind of gets lost in the 'oh, here we go again.'

Whatever books they adapt, they need to do more worldbuilding for those of us that are casual fans and don't read the books. I'm still leaning to a 50s/60s Ruby Stone movie because we'd still have the mother as a continuing character, and you still have Nick Goode as a teen who learns of the family 'power' and how he grows to accept it. We don't know who actually 'named' Ruby in the cave either. It could be him for all we know. Maybe they need her to kill someone who uncovered the Good secrets.

I'm totally busting that out.

I quit that network when these shows ended. I watched from Day One. Not those shows, the actual network. I think their first show was Season 4 of Sliders. Not only your Eureka type shows, but they had legitimately good Saturday night movies. B movies, but still. They were good. Locked Room? Eureka had a final season order contracted so they ended the current season on a cliffhanger. Leadership at the network changed (again) and they dropped the final season. I was done. There's no direction there and no one invested in the programming like there used to be. There's other outlets for good genre content.

They share the same universe.

I don't think she should have called him a moron. It's unprofessional. However, saying you're going to hit an elected official over the head with a gavel is way further out of bounds. This is why we need to be able to tell people to just shut the fuck up sometimes. It's a lost art. Like slamming down the phone on someone. Or actual apologies. It doesn't have to be some heartfelt, tearing your hair out in the street and weeping to the heavens - Yeah, I'm not actually going to hit her over the head. It was a dumb thing to say. I'm sorry about that. Ok. I shouldn't have called you a moron either. I was frustrated about everything. Sorry. And then we move on. Not everything needs to be a thing about everything all the time over anything. That's really the problem.

I don't fault Bill for bringing his friends on the show because it's his show, but she's been like that all the time. It's not that she's not a smart person or not informed, but I don't know if she views the gig as just a chance to let loose or what. Just in the opening introduction I knew how it was going to go. She's also not nearly as funny as she thinks she is. People like that never have the self awareness to dial it down. I don't think you're required to be serious on the show - it's a comedy show about the news. To be fair, she did talk about a bit about some of the topics though with good points. It's one thing if you get in a quip during the flow of the discussion or rib Bill, but when you're derailing it, that's just not funny. It's not your set. I'll agree that 'when you're getting to hurricanes with geek letters, you knew you're in trouble.' That's a good quip.

What I liked about the commentary was that Gen X somehow just didn't bother being part of this debate. It's always Boomers v Millennials. I always love the insult comedy. I have a friend that I just tear to shreds sometimes like Short was doing, but he gets mad that it's actually funny.

And even going back to visit. You get till about 20 to go back to high school to visit. There are legitimately sometimes good teachers you'd like to go back to talk to about your first few years of college. After that, you're creepy.

Jane K looked great with her silver hair.

That cracked me up. I loved that Franny wore a headband in high school too. The sound and the smoke for the bong offscreen was good too. Can they not show that? I took me till the Bad Bitch scene that Jeff hadn't been wearing a hat. Lots going on in this show. Eunice, the man cave, Halyey/Franny, and the improv - including bang-gliding. I need to see the tattoo of Jill Stein on a surfboard.

I don't know about the whole direction of the episode. They were just throwing in whatever. All the shows that hadn't been covered already got about 2 minutes. I do like the monologue at the end of Malcolm in the Middle. It's a great piece of writing - you're not just going to be president, you're going to be the best president. You know why? You're going to put in work.

I'm not quite seeing too much new ground covered in this latest episode much past, they did a whole bunch of sitcoms about the south being hicks so far. I did like the segment on Alice, but it was short. I'm watching on the app, and the Honeymooners segment was cut out at the start though. "You ain't tall enough to be a basketball player". The actor playing Weesey looked like she totally cracked though.