I didn’t expect a lot from the first season but was pleasantly surprised. Definitely better than I expected.
Eddie Redmayne doesn’t seem like someone who could play a master assassin, but he does a good job.
Matt Bomber absolutely looks like someone who can play spy or be part of the spy world (maybe more White Collar crime), so I’m looking forward to seeing what he does.
Yes.
Each season has a packed cast and has deservedly won multiple awards. Each season is a mystery of sorts where you kinda know the ending and then the show reveals the different characters, how they interact, and you learn how they all come together in the end.
Some seasons are better than others and each season has some loose connection to previous seasons, so while you can skip/watch in any order, watching it in order is recommended. Which is to say each season is 90% new people, but familiar faces pop up.
For me it wasn’t even matter of reddit only being tolerable via third party apps, third party apps were Reddit.
Reddit released their first app in 2014. My email shows I purchased “Reddit is Fun (Premium)” in 2013, and I know I used other apps before that.
Reddit is Fun WAS Reddit for me for 10+ years.
When it went away and I had to change anyway, I jumped to the closest thing. (Eventually landing on Voyager.)
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell visited in August 2017 during Trump’s first term.
There was also a bunch of chatter about Musk visiting about a year ago, but that never happened.
So we’re just in a loop of making shit up.
Sure, technically it’s been ~9 years since someone in the Trump administration has publicly been there, but Trump’s current Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also agrees that all the money is there and regularly audited.
I know we all know it’s bullshit, but I wanted to add some facts to the conversation.
(And yes, there is some irony in the source of the facts being Trump’s various Treasury Secretaries.)
And any prequel/sequel/etc will feature his character being not born or dead.
As an episode, it’s excellent. I think as a character Ava probably goes a bit far. I think of Debra/Ava as a mother/daughter relationship, so this episode goes beyond that. But as a viewer, this episode is hilarious. I’m glad they did what they did. It’s comedy brilliance.
Also Cherry Jones, but especially Leslie Bibb did an amazing job this episode.
I think in part it’s a response to such short seasons.
When you only get 8 episodes, spending an episode doing something different or just focusing on one character can feel like a waste.
Think about the Picard flute episode of TNG, if we only had 8 episode seasons and that was one of them, people would probably be upset.
But ultimately I’m happy with “filler” episodes, because the character development is usually worth it. Even if that episode is rated poorly, it usually improves the overall story.
I hope Jon Stewart shows up as well. It is Monday after all, the only day he works.
So I agree, but it’s impossible to keep Baby Yoda in a bottle. Any other Jedi or potential Jedi species and you can play that out however you want. But Baby Yoda? You can’t ignore that.
I understand conceptually the idea of not tying it to mainline lore… But Baby Yoda? You can’t ignore that.
FX dropped a surprise episode of “The Bear” on Wednesday.
Not sure if the episode (and article) dropped early, but the episode dropped today. But the article is posted on Tuesday at 9am Pacific, and the episode also dropped Tuesday.
I had to look it up to double check, but you’re really close to the end. They only switched over for (part of?) the last season.
Also depends how you watch the last season, after the finale are four syndication episodes.
I don’t mind it as much for tight story forward shows, not that more episodes wouldn’t be bad in some cases, but usually 10 episodes is the right amount to tell a story.
Shows they are more monster of the week, or plot of the week, like King of the Hill or Star Trek, they would benefit by having more episodes.
Shows that are telling a season long story, like Severance or Only Murders in the Building, they work better with a 10 episode run.
And I appreciate shows that don’t stretch to fit the 10 episode run. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was perfect at 6 episodes. I just watched The Miniature Wife and by episode 6 I was disappointed to find out it had been stretched to 10 episodes. They probably should have done it in 6 or 8.
The new season, which will be the show’s 15th overall, will debut all 10 episodes on July 20. Hulu originally picked up 20 episodes of the revival. Following its successful return in 2025, Hulu renewed the show for two additional seasons, which will bring it to Season 17.
That’s excellent news.
I do wish we got “full seasons” of 20+ episodes. For shows like this having more room to explore the characters generally turns out better. I’d love to see more Good Hank, his one episode this past season was great.
A whole Pokemon episode was entirely cut because it has a gun in it
Just to be fair, it’s not just that it “has a gun”, and more that the gun is pointed directly at the protagonist.
Yes it’s largely done for comedic effect and I think the whole removal of the episode is ridiculous, but pointing guns at people is 100% going to cause bad publicity in gun filled US of A.
But they could have easily just cut a few scenes and extended the Pokerap for this episode.
As is season 2.
Boba was Mando season 2.5 and while the Mando moments are good, it comes too soon and the Boba story is messy.
Mando season 3 also has good moments, but it needed at least two seasons to tell the story, but instead it’s rushed it so they can make a film.
People complain about having to wait 2 years for 8 episodes of TV, Mando season 3 to the film is waiting three years for about 2-3 episodes.
I mean SNW is just generally good quality Trek. If the only way we get good quality Trek is latching it to existing Trek eras, then fine.
But I think exploring new eras is what makes Trek fun and interesting. I wasn’t a fan of the Discovery time jump, but the concept of The Burn was interesting. Once they had done it and began to explore it, I was interested, even as the quality was uneven.
I maintain that one of the biggest problems with Enterprise was that after three excellent 90s Trek shows we were ready to explore the galaxy. Especially after Voyager, we’re finally home! But then we’re reset back to the start. I was excited by Picard because we finally started exploring that era. Although we didn’t really have a fun series in that era until Lower Decks.
But that’s what excited me about Starfleet Academy. We’re in the far future, we’re rebuilding the Federation, we’re starting with the cadets, I’m in! And… it’s gone.
So if Year One is how we get good Trek, so be it. But I want to continue the stories we’re already telling. We’ve already set it up after Picard season 3. We gave Seven a ship. Let’s go follow that.
Star Trek and Star Wars are in the same universe.
Star Wars just happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
After some shenanigans Han Solo even came to Earth once and met Indiana Jones.
To save a click, ~3½ years since the season 1 finale.
I really thought we were getting it this fall, so bummer.