Serenity?

Serenity is a very creepy neo-noir that wants to be something else? My only question is what. The Matrix .5? (Another) One Flu Over the Cookoo’s Nest?

There are plot holes big enough to drive a long-haul truck through. Anne Hathaway plays the wayward wife of a drug lord, or not(?!) who cooks up a scheme right out of a 1940s noir. And then, the late 2010s show up, because reasons. Mathew McConaughey plays a role that could have been written for Humphrey Bogart. And then, those pesky 2010s showed up. Anne Hathaway was either too young, or in certain parts, too old? I mean, I’m no fool, but come on! They didn’t go to school together! Either change a few lines, or get a lady he could have actually sat in that geography class with! The movie needs to be longer. It’s like we walk into the movie thirty minutes in. Their lack of backstory is soooo odd. Until they literally invent a twist just to explain an epic brain cramp that the writer had.

I mean, when Game of Thrones had bad writing, they at least didn’t try to make it make sense. They at least had the decency to own the cray cray, not to turn it into The Matrix .5!

I got into Game of Thrones because of my life-long passion for history. I came to see it as the greatest story ever.

A grand saga which was actually true.

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I haven’t been here in a while, but I’ll return to give you guys the snarky content you’ve come to expect.

True Detective got it's grove back

Some things on tv shouldn't be a series.

They shouldn't come out every year. 

They should make you want to race home.

Season 3 does that.

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Purple Noon: A nice story done too quickly

Fun Fact: The Talented Mr. Ripley is a remake. 

Bonus fun fact: It's better than the good original.

It feels breezy and clean, where the remake felt far more in-depth. Purple Noon isn't a period piece, it's of the period. It feels like a document of post-War Italy More than a character study. The remake is better! 

Full House, 1987, and Peloton?

Full House is seriously strange. I'm amazed a show about 3 guys in San Francisco raising 3 girls made it as a family show. Or is that just a pre-Tumblr world?

Remember, a commercial for a bicycle was supposed be a    mini-exploitation movie?

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Is that too much porn, or not enough exercise? You couldn't even have Dave Coulier around kids now! Who among us hasn't listened to Jagged Little Pill as an adult and thought:

"Wait? How old WAS Alanis Morissette!?" As the second thing after "Isn't it ironic...?"

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You couldn't have 2 dudes in a bathtub at 8 pm in 2020! How can you have that in 1987?  

Where were the parents of the Peloton Brigade?   

I’m Baaaack

Full Castle

The early 90s were a very innocent time. How innocent? The Peloton commercial would have seemed like a commercial selling a stationary bike, and not a desperate plea of an abused woman. It was a simpler time. A show was a show, not a continuous 7-year-long movie.

There was a time in America were a show with 3 dudes and a couple of little girls could be wholesome family fun.

Too bad things change.