There are like three episodes each, from the past year, of Industry, Reservation Dogs, and Andor that I’d rank as better than this episode. And that’s not an insult! But if people wanna exaggerate then I’ll bring receipts…

Tom Cruise is too old to play booster ;)

I don't know the numbers in the US, but $200 per day would be the absolute lowest I'd go and that's a bargain.

People in this era of prestige TV don't remember how crazy that was when it first came out. Such a big production that the guy who greenlit it literally got fired.

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Dont ask to be in the show, you get nothing out of that and theyll be able to edit you out anyway, but 50 bucks a day is also basically nothing so if you dont think thats worth it ask for more. Unless you already agreed that is.

I'm doing like my 37th rewatch and just came across Final Grades again. What a gut punch it is.

How so? He's far from being the business mogul that he is supposed to be in the future. Though at some point, I imagine it would have to quit the hotel but even then we still have some time before that (I imagine he ultimately becomes the boss/owner of the hotel)

This right here. When people get behind a work of art like this — something that highlights LGBTQ characters, and is in that specific lane of inspiring and sad — they can also get uber-defensive of it.

I personally thought the episode was well-executed but sorta boring, artistically. Casting Offerman in that role is a bit on the nose, using “On The Nature of Daylight” during a sad monologue has been done to death, and I found the time-jumping a bit tedious.

And lemme tell ya, I could talk in depth about the parts that I really liked. The almost Better Call Saul-esque sequence of Bill setting up his little fortress, the strong acting, and the clever moments of writing. Particularly liked Bill’s line where he claims he probably doesn’t look like a guy who knows how to pair the right wine with a meal.

But end of the day, I thought it underwhelmed a bit and I feel like I’m about to get killed for saying that even as I couched the criticism.

I would ask for at least 10 grand

My only complaint was the raiders scene. Why is very smart and ultra prepared Bill's plan to stand on the open street and shoot. Like seriously? He didn't have a snipers nest ready? Couldn't have shot out a window? Didn't have a bush he could crouch in? The fuck was that. He could have suffered the same injury in any of those scenarios without looking like an idiot. Hell, maybe he leaves cover because Frank steps outside and that is how he gets injured, thus showing that his love for Frank overwhelmed his survivalist instincts. No, he's just an idiot for one scene.

Sure. They can accept if your asking amount is reasonable. Otherwise, they will decline and may even film elsewhere. There goes your inconvenience fee.

As for being an extra, highly doubt it due to additional paperwork and liability unless you don't care and just want to be in a scene. Even then, they could cut you out in post.

Good luck regardless!

Do you own the property? Did you already give them permission to film there?

And four days? You should ask for much more.

WBD's press release has Lanterns as HBO Max (or presumably what HBO Max ends up becoming). http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2023/01/31/dc-studios-announces-slate-of-10-new-film-and-television-projects-221411/20230131wbd01/

For me is The battle of the bastards from GoT.

It wasn’t about bill not being good, but how he played it slower and with meaning.

I do not like the cone of shame.

'that guy' yeah..

I just wish Bill would’ve lived and he got another episode or two. seems weird to have that much backstory just to never see him again.

What a garbage take, “their expectations weren’t subverted.”

Go back to 2017 when subverted expectations were all the rage and we’re dumb as rocks then.

I was left a little confused. It seemed like they are starting over... except not really because Waller and the Peacemaker characters will continue on.

>This is such a weird criticism.

>When the power went out while at the hardware store, he went to the "New Bedford Plant" Natural Gas Plant and turned the gas back on assuming the reserves would last him in a town for for 1. He drives at the gates of the plant at full speed and cuts through the rest with bolt cutters.

Why would the gas even be off? And those plants don't just run themselves for 10 years with no issues, the supply would have dried up and there's no electricity for any of the mechanical functions that supply gas to work. They specifically zoomed in on him lighting the gas stove with a match, but he turned the electricity back on with the generator. He's conserving electricity to not use the electric pilot (its 2003, not 1886) but happy to keep everything else running 24/7/365 off the generator?

They literally live in that house for a decade as if all public works infrastructure didn't totally collapse and is working like normal simply because he flipped a switch at a plant miles away and poured whatever was left in a gas station into three oil drums. Hot showers, running water, gas, electricity, etc. It's total nonsense, none of that actually works that way and is a huge, frequent, and valid criticism of pretty much every piece of post-apocalyptic survivor media. The truck wouldn't have worked either in the last scene, the engine would have immediately seized when Joel tried to start it with decade old bad gas in the tank.

Does it make it "literally unwatchable" or any such nonsense? No, of course not, but that doesn't make it invalid criticism either.

>It depends on how long the generator lasts. But also Joel has been there many times, and might know how to refill it as part of his whole Handyman Builder thing. They've probably traded for fuel before.

A generator that size, powering a house that big, and an electric fence that's always on surrounding the whole town?

Even with minimal usage in the house, that's going to be burning 10+ gallons of gas an hour. Those three 100 gallon drums he filled up at the beginning of the episode would have lasted... about a day. Your average gas station like the one he took the gas from sells about 4000 gallons a day and is usually refilled daily or every other day. So assuming the gas station had a full reserve, he'd have been out of gas to run the generator in a little over two weeks on a generous estimate.

Ten years running that 24/7? Even putting aside the fact that after six months it's all moot and there's no more unspoiled fuel to scavenge or trade for, ten years is nonsense.

As for when Joel and Ellie showed up, unless the generator was topped off right before they died and it hasn't been more than 48 hours... there would be no electricity for any of it. If you'd like to say the generator was hard-line natural gas powered, we return to point 1 where that's just as equally nonsense.

And we know Joel and Ellie didn't fill it up and turn it on because the fence was powered when they entered the compound and they went directly to the house on camera, it's right next to the gate while the generator is out back. They'd have no reason to turn the generator on first if they didn't know Bill and Frank were dead and the fence was still working, so that doesn't add up.

>"I was never afraid before you showed up." He was afraid and made mistakes.

Running out into the road to stand under a street light and shoot at things you cant see is not "i'm afraid and made a mistake," it completely undermines his entire characterization. It's more nonsense.

>Also at no point is he shown to be a great hunter. He see him raising chickens and farming. His signature dish appears to be rabbit, and he's shown to be a trapper. None of that translates to shooting ability. It would then be notable that nowhere do we see a shooting range, or anywhere he can practice.

I'm not going to sit here and argue the semantics of whether or not trapping is a discipline of hunting. The man is literally a doomsday prepper with Don't Tread On Me banners hanging in his secret bunker next to his absurd collection of firearms.

We're not seriously going to sit here and pick apart an assumption that he doesn't know how to fire a gun, or that you don't stand in the open like a jackass when executing guerilla tactics against raiders, right?

But yeah, we clearly all just "obviously didn't watch the episode" or "don't get it" or whatever.

I'm intrigued by Lanterns and Paradise Lost. I'm a casual DC fan so this sounds interesting. Waller looks good too.

The article was trash, but "Cottage-core Post-apocalyptic Bear Fantasy" was hilarious.

I'd be pleasantly surprised if Superman & Lois is renewed for another season considering both The CW's extreme cost-cutting under its new Nexstar ownership and DC's desire to focus on a new live action Superman. That said, I'm not sure anyone wants to be the bad guy and risk a backlash by prematurely cancelling a generally well-liked series. Whether or not S&L gets a season four is going to be a very interesting decision no matter what that decision ends up being.