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NBC changed up their fall schedule. This Is Us is now going on to be on Tuesday with Thursday going to the comedies (The Good Place, Superstore, Will & Grace, and Great News).

 

I'm trying to power through it but I'm kinda feeling the same way. I still like the show, but I'm not eager to keep watching for whatever reason.

 

still liking Kimmy Schmidt, think I've only given up on House of Lies because I forgot it existed and Glee because it started getting bad midway through

 

Finished OUAT. Or rather, I am finished with OUAT. Soft reboot? Pft. Bye.

Henry Mills must have the most ridiculous family tree in all of television.

Rumple killed both his parents wtf

 

Michelle Williams in a comedy intrigues me

Also

Michelle Williams Replaces Rooney Mara in Leos Carax’s ‘Annette’

 

Sad Rooney won't be in the Carax film but I suppose that's a good replacement.

 

Yeah I gave up on both of those also. HOL some time into season 2 and Glee far later than I care to admit

 

Blindspot S2 had some parts that were better than in S1 (Jane, Patterson, the addition of Roman and Shepherd) and some parts that were worse (Zapata and Reade). I still find Kurt boringly bland, but he's okay as a love interest, I guess. The finale ended on a pretty high note, with a satisfying level of closure, but the set-up for the next season is just kind of like "really? not this again." let's follow more clues on Jane's body!

I feel sort of the same way about the season finale of Once Upon a Time, even though apparently most of the main cast is leaving the show after its "soft reboot" next season. The set-up is an older, cynical Henry Mills is visited by a dreamy-eyed child he never knew he had,kind of like how he visited a cynical Emma Swan back at the beginning of the show. This basically screams a retread of the same waters for me.

OUAT reached the point a long time ago where their formula of each half season having a different big bad who's somehow in Henry's family tree got really stale. If Blindspot doesn't find a way to switch things up, its formula will start to get stale as well.

I forgot to mention, I also finished Fresh Off the Boat and Speechless. Those two shows are good enough that I wouldn't mind if they stuck to their formula. Constance Wu and Minnie Driver are purely delightful as mother figures on those shows.

I still need to finish Jane the Virgin and Quantico, not to mention Gotham is still ongoing. I started way too many shows last fall.

 

Illuminations: Martin Scorsese on the power of film-making as an art form

 

Movie studios are blaming Rotten Tomatoes for killing movies no one wants to see

So, so much to unpack here. My favorite part, though, is Brett Ratner saying:

1. Criticism has existed for almost as long as art has existed, and negative criticism affecting financial performance of a film is not new just because it's easier to access a wealth of it quickly now.
2. Everyone knows what the Tomatometer means (also, you refer to it as an aggregate yourself, what the hell do you mean you don't know what it means?).
3. There is no "correct," criticism is subjective.
4. Just because most of the people paid to write about film in a critical format dislike your film doesn't mean other people can't like it.
5. If you want your films to be critic-proof, make better films.

 

Miyazaki theme park

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170602

 

This is seriously the stupidest thing I have seen in a while

Leah Remini Joins CBS’ ‘Kevin Can Wait’ As Series Regular For Season 2

 

Erinn deserves better anyway , she was so funny on Children's Hospital

 

Totally agree, she's amazing. Probably was a great paycheck for her though

 

I would think exposing Scientology would make it harder to get industry jobs, not easier

 

Her show on A&E was really popular, I think. And you know the network is probably just jazzed about putting her back on a show with Kevin James.

So weak.

 

Oh yeah, it's silly. I'm just surprised it didn't hurt her career more.

 

Yeah, CBS is basically re-creating the same show that was a hit for them for almost 10 years, it's stupid but it'll work for people who are into that shit. It's just bizarre.

 

Second season of Quantico was okay. Still over-convoluted. Still feels like one of those ABC shows where there's a lot of drama for the sake of drama. Got much better when it ditched the LOST-esque flashback formula in the second half of the season, though. And it's probably become the most heavy-handed in sticking it to the current administration, which is actually kind of nice. Priyanka continues to be awesome. I really like Johanna Braddy as well, but they ruined Shelby's character. And Ryan continues to be almost as bland as Kurt on Blindspot. I'm kind of intrigued that they renewed it for a third, shorter season, especially considering the second season finale had enough closure to work as a series finale and didn't include a stupid time-jump scene to tease the next season like Blindspot did.

On a sidenote, the current season of Gotham isn't over yet, but it's kind of nuts, and I'm actually kind of loving it? I don't know if I'd recommend it to anyone over obviously better shows, but it's really embraced the so-bad-it's-good vibe.

 

There's a new trailer for Edgar Wright's Baby Driver and amongst all the flashy text was the phrase, "100% on Rotten Tomatoes," and for some reason that was really disheartening to me. Not like that was Wright's call but I just don't like how embedded Rotten Tomatoes has become in our culture when it comes to film criticism and whether or not you should see a movie.

 

The thing people don't really grasp with RT is that a film can be 85%, but most the reviews can still be pretty lukewarm.

 

That is why it is a bad metric. If you have to use something, Metacritic gives you more nuance.

 

A better metric to look at on RT might be the "Average Rating" score. Though, I don't usually look to RT for television as much as I do for movies.

As someone who enjoys Gotham and its ridiculousness, I don't think the RT consensus scores are representative of its actual quality.

 

Graph tv is pretty accurate for trends over a season or series, even though IMDb ratings for individual episodes might not be the best indication of quality.

 

This is interesting to me, as I work in marketing for movies and I actually just recently made the case NOT to put the Rotten Tomatoes rating on the artwork for a DVD release, simply because the movie only recently came out and that rating very easily could change. That being said, I do use high ratings in our sales materials, it's a good marketing point regardless of the quality of the metric itself ha