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Not the older brother from Napoleon Dynamite, he’s Uncle Rico!
did some work on Mike White’s previous HBO show. He’s a weird genius
Another case of JPod being wrong often enough that you end up having to verify everything he says.
Mickey Rourke was in “Wild Orchid,” not “Wild Lotus.”
Granted a lot of people recognize it anyway, but isn’t it “traditional” to identify the closing music on these podcasts, in the show notes?
To be fair, the main villain is a Viltrumite Supremacist who isn’t interested in eugenics.
I did enjoy that Rob’s ringtone was “In A Sentimental Mood” by John Coltrane and Duke Ellington.
I wonder if not being repulsed by Amazon’s The Boys is a symptom of decadence.
The only “realistic” superhero TV show I ever saw was Alphas with David Strathairn: no circus costumes, and you work for the government or they lock you up.
It is repulsive. I still approve of it because humanity untethered from humanity and tethered to fame is corrupt and evil.
I didn’t watch past the second or third episode, but they laid the groundwork for something like that in I think episode 2 of Supergirl.
Were the government the good guys.
In theory they probably were, at least that’s how they were first presented. But as mentioned, I lost interest after maybe 3 episodes so I have no idea if maybe they got “dark” after that.
Thank Ghod I didn’t get faced with all the “multiverse” garbage. I would have gotten out at that point regardless, that stuff is just so much crap like the “Mirror Universe” stuff in Star Trek. But by getting out early, I avoided wasting a lot of time on it.
It had a decent beginning though, but they started squandering it rather early by having Jimmy Olsen be a black guy who knew all about Superman’s secret identity etc.
@kedavis — You mean, you missed seeing Mirror Supergirl’s goatee?
I enjoyed Melissa Benoist’s performance but, as the show went on, the lesbian propaganda got a little too obtrusive for my taste.
Yes I’ve read about that occasionally, but thankfully I didn’t waste any more time actually watching the show.
Why is everyone a lesbian now?
In a later season of Smallville, we get to meet the evil “Clark Luthor” in a parallel world.
He barely dares to go outside Luthorcorp HQ, because there are people with kryptonite-edged weapons laying for him everywhere.
Moral: If you’re a super, it’s enlightened self-interest to be a super hero.