Sad nerds upset they didn't tell the video game story the way they like it

I’m sure the vulture authors would have preferred the fetch quests from that level with climbing ladder bridges across buildings and getting parts for a battery scattered across town

Masters of the Air.

I thought it was good but cliche

When he wore that silly bandana around his thigh and when he tried to invent his own catchphrase... "Wa wa wa"

I think it would be very on-brand if they just did a regular episode and didn't reference it being the final episode. Then have a mid-credit scene where the actors break character and realize they forgot it was the finale

Now that Showtime is dead and gone you do not have to worry about their shows going on too long.

It’s an episode with really sharp writing. It’s slower, but The Last of Us is slower in places with the game, too. It’s a series far more interested in character than action.

Without spoiling too much about the rest of the series, Bill and Frank’s story is a microcosm of the broader themes the story is going to follow. Bill in particular tells us a lot about Joel’s character, because Bill correctly sees that he and Joel are very alike.

You said it's crazy that people are considering this show "fresh" and I explained to you why that my be the case for a lot of people who wouldn't be aware of Columbo or even the "characters welcome" stuff from 10-15 years ago.

Brilliant point. It sold the letter and provided the emotional base for Joel’s decisions moving forward, while giving Joel and the audience closure on Tess’s death.

Its okay not everyone likes great media.

I'm really looking forward to The Three Body Problem. Just finished the books last week and am watching the Chinese version on YouTube

But I'm also really wary about how it will turn out lol

The Chinese version is going into the books hard. 30 episode series. And it's kind of showing the flaw with that as some parts really drag. But there's a ton to cover and they're really doing it justice, for better or worse.

The Netflix version already seems very different as they're having an international cast (kind of seems like an obvious choice if you're adapting a Chinese book with almost all Chinese characters into something you're hoping will be an international hit) but the casting is concerning. Benedict Wong is a great addition but if he's playing Wang Miao and not Da Shi it'll be a serious miscast. But other sources say he is playing Da Shi and the guy who played Sam on GoT will be Wang Miao (which I also think is bad casting).

Also, I don't see how they'll shove this book into a bingable series for mass audiences. So much of it is just narration explaining scientific theories and concepts. Most of the characters can be very wooden, especially the main ones, as I guess they're more meant to represent concepts than actual people.

Should be a trip. Especially if they start doing books 2 and 3. Book 1 is kind of a detective mystery thriller. The other two are wild with different dimensions and huge passages of time.

Once he stopped traveling due to COVID, he stopped being anywhere near center. Turns out he is an easy mark for right wing talking pieces. Without anyone in the room to tell him how crazy things are, he will parrot all the right wing crap.

Same weakness Rogan has, I believe.

Hopefully your tinnitus gets worse

A bit off topic but anyone else find the writing for Ellie to be odd. Not talking about the acting but the writing for some scenes makes her seem sadistic. She was always a little dark in the game but here it has no subtlety.

> Animal Kingdom has an obnoxious song

OH MY GOD, it is nails on a chalkboard.

Dull, pretentious take.

Subversion doesn't automatically make things good. The episode works perfectly fine without some "clever" twist. It's a story about love being essential to survival, something like that doesn't require a reinvention of the wheel.

That being said though, there was one moment that I liked and I'm disappointed they didn't follow through on. Frank on the piano, being just sort of OK at it. I thought that was a lovely little moment of human tenderness, where the beauty comes not from him playing well, but by simply trying his best to do something nice for another person. Having Bill step in and do the usual "Oh my god he's so good at singing" thing kind of cheapened it. It was nice to see someone kinda sucking at something for a change, you don't see that on TV.

Never skipped it either. Didn’t/don’t necessarily like it, but it was tradition to begin the whiskey drinking with the opening three beats

Funny that Hollywood hasn't come up with an alternative. Like how they use a 555 number.

I call you fragile because of the comment you made. Watch the show and find out, won’t spoil it for you.

Ah here comes the contrarian take from Vulture. Truly the /r/television of media journalism.

I’ve literally never met a single person in real life who watches this show, it wouldn’t be cancelled if people watched it, there are like five people whining about this on Reddit (including the creator) and yet I see stories about Tuca and Bertie constantly. I just don’t understand, shows get cancelled when people don’t watch them, that’s what happens, get over it.

On paper that should have been the case. But so far there have been many problems in the markets they have launched in already putting a real stopper in any momentum.

Rest in Metal

The Gang ends crime in Philly

And then he smells crime again, he's out busting heads. Then he's back to the lab for some more full penetration. Smells crime. Back to the lab, full penetration. Crime. Penetration. Crime. Full penetration. Crime. Penetration. And this goes on and on and back and forth for 90 or so minutes until the show just sort of ends.