Kind of ironic since Doom Patrol had a backdoor pilot in Titans and Chief got recast.

Recasting the detectives is a stupid move though. I’m not that excited for the show but those actors were fun in Doom Patrol.

Yes, 'Muppet's The Last of Us', starring Kermit as Joel, Miss Piggy as Tess and Mandy Patinkin as Ellie.

Any news on Young Justice?

Which is free to anyone in the world with a vpn.

Peak HBO for me was Wire, Trueblood and Boxing.

HBO still has the most elite show but damn I really miss the boxing..

Assuming you own the rights to the land, you can charge whatever. Worst they’ll do is back out. These projects have huge budgets; I’d gamble they can afford a much higher figure. $200 for four days is cheap.

“It feels contradiction for the sake of it.”

Yes.

And I’ll add that he shouldn’t write reviews or interpret what an episode means until viewed through the lens of the whole story, or season. He is wildly wrong about why this episode exists or what it is meant to achieve.

That said, Last Of Us has always been great but overrated. It excels in many areas, but he is right that it borrows tropes and plot devices from a long library of zombie and post-apocalyptic medium. I immediately thought of Children of Men back playing the game.

However, it’s strength lies in the Joel and Ellie dynamic. That’s what elevated what might be forgettable zombie fare into something really special. And that’s what he’s missing - because he doesn’t have the whole story.

They all die throughout the episode one by one and only Frank is alive at the end. He says what am I gonna do now so he grabs the noose and looks up and says I’m coming Charlie.

I came in half way through the shoot with a crew that replaced the previous crew, and stayed until the end. In the couple months I was there, we went through 2 directors, 2 DPs and had a 10 day hiatus due to one of the directors being unceremoniously canned. I think the show burned through 3 directors total.

I actually enjoyed the show for what it was worth. The subject matter was interesting, albeit some of the story telling was a little heavy handed.

I’m bummed to see it got canceled…but not in the least bit surprised.

Agreed. The actress for Lana lang is extra terrible. Couldn’t make it past a few episodes of season two.

gestures broadly

Will this lead to an increase in television series in other streaming services being released on CD/Blu-Ray as well? Only if customers demand it.

It’s probably too late for the Showtime back catalogue as Paramount owns it now. Foolish maneuver on their part. Don’t they know how many people re-watch their favourite shows?

I think the issue is that once everyone dropped cable nobody knew it existed. I just got a year for 99 cents a month, which I took as a sign of desperation.

Literally billions of people across the planet.

Yep, same boat. I have enough other stuff I still want to watch on the services I already subscribe to that I can't justify adding another one, even though I really want to check out Poker Face.

I might consider adding Peacock for a month or two next time I unsubscribe from something else, but at this point it's really getting tough to justify so many subscriptions, even though most of them have at least one or two shows that I'm really interested in.

They are aware of it, as confirmed in this video with Charlie Brooker and Diane Morgan.

I don't know why Netflix just drops all these shows with little fanfare. Lockwood & Co was pretty good.

Fair take. Another approach would maybe be do this episode later in the season. It did feel a little odd to completely leave Joel and Ellie for most of an episode already.

And to think it aired just 33 years after the release of Belgian techno anthem Pump Up The Jam

Lots and lots of people, sadly.

....how

it's not even a good hate watch

He made shows that appealed specifically to the CW market. You can't fault him for that. And as much as I've hated some aspects of that "universe," there was still more good than bad. Hell, some of it, you can lay at Geoff Johns' feet since he pushed for the Flash and moving Arrow away from the more Nolan-inspired take of the first two years.

Viewership ratings in today on Netflix pretty much confirm Lockwood & Co is DOA and 100% cancelled. I expect the same performance from Dead Boy Detectives for sure.

Also compared to say Gotham, Themyscira (Paradise Lost) and Green Lantern corps (Lanterns) have not been done to death. We have had so much world building and adjacent content for Batman, Superman, and even Flash / Green Arrow, but there's been very limited filmed world building for Wonder Woman or Green Lantern.

La Brea drinking game:

Do a shot anytime one character decieves another, the decieved character calls them out, or a character mentions "family".

You'll be trashed before the first commercial break and dead by the end of the show.