Gotta make room for The Walking Dead: Reno.

Well, sorta - the writers confused the issue by making purgatory relevant to the last season when it wasn't before. Had they not done that, a lot fewer people would be confused.

Most people who talk about it likely haven't read it. Even the scene, let alone the entire book.

It's a weird scene, don't get me wrong. It's used as a metaphor for transitioning from childhood to the next stage of life, in order to separate them from IT's influence. Probably better ways to have done that, but it was part of Bev's story, to be thinking along those lines, and that fits.

The entire end of the book goes so far off the deep end, that honestly this scene doesn't even really stand out.

I remember being at work the day after My Lunch aired and just being depressed all day.

Watching paint dry would be better than watching It chapter 2, so hopefully this has more Pennywise and less everything else.

I don’t think in-universe characters changing the past counts as a retcon. Was Flashpoint a retcon? When Marty wakes up to discover his parents are happy and successful (and I guess kept Lyon Estates a nice neighborhood somehow) is that a retcon?

In the book Pennywise is more of an elemental force corrupting the town, and there's a good force (represented as a space turtle) trying to help the kids defeat him.

that part was bullshit, even if she had access to all 4 limbs. but the nursing home ep is one of my favs actually.

Season 1 of Russian Doll is one of my favorite Netflix originals. I haven’t watched the 2nd season though, I just thought the first season was great on its own.

The good news is the last season had a flashback to Marge’s high school musical about Y2K that took place before Homer and Marge officially “met” so they couldn’t possibly have been dating in the nineties and that episode has also been retconned.

The truth is neither of those were retcons. Marge and Homer met in high school in the 70s and they on and off dated in the 90s while Homer was in a grunge band (unrelated to the massive success he had as part of a barbershop quartet in the 80s) and also they’re 38 in 2023 and all of these things are somehow true at the same time.

I feel like this was pretty inevitable when Season 1 finished almost 3 years ago

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>Literally no show is safe these days no matter how popular.

Isn't this really only a AMC/streaming thing at the moment? Shows on network television seem pretty safe if they're popular enough. Plus I think Netflix was really only doing this when covid screwed things up for a while, unless I'm remembering incorrectly.

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Sort of. There is a new mystery each week, but you get some spoilers about it in the first few minutes. Then you watch the main character wander through the story putting together clues. Some of the stories play out as expected while there are little twists and turns in them that add context. It's a pretty fun premise.

It’s a great show but holy moly Peacock needs to stream in a higher bitrate. So much obvious banding and pixelation.

Could you elaborate a little more on what you mean?

Let me know if you have any feedback!

X-files you are missing a bit on context.

It debuted the 1st year that Fox had programing everyday of the week.

While overall X-Files was lowly rated, it was about average for Fox viewership (it would be like comparing Ted Lasso's viewership numbers to Young Sheldon)

It aired on Fridays, when viewership was lower overall

When looking at broadcast TV there are other things to consider other than just overall ratings. DOW, that I mentioned above, is big. Also how much of it's lead in show's audience does it retain. Is the show gaining viewers each week, maintaining or losing.

Star Trek: TGN was released in syndication. It was the 3rd highest rated syndicated show in its 1st season. Highly unlikely it would have been canceled anywhere

Seinfeld is interesting. 1st season was only 5 episodes, so hard to get a following on network TV with that low a number. 2nd season started bad but was given a 2nd shot and moved to after Cheers, where it preformed really well and the rest is history. There is a good chance that it could be a causality in today's environment.

Breaking Bad is another potential case. It was one of AMC's most watched shows when it debuted, just the network didn't have many people watching at the time. It was also just their 2nd original drama series that was released. I may be a casualty it today's environment if it was released on one of the big platforms, but likely would survive on one of the smaller ones.

First few seasons of Scrubs were amazing. Rest of show is great too but the early years were a whole other level.

John can bring it so god damn hard in everything he does.

He had a recurring role in the last season of Brooklyn 99 and without a doubt stole the show.

The only show that has come close for me is The Good Place.