Crowtee_Robot

This is the most Oscar-ass movie I could imagine. Naturally it's going to win every award for which it's nominated.

Best we'll probably get is derivative '90s nostalgia-fueled slop.

Yeah. IIRC, gangster movies started as an urban inversion of westerns and as such were a meditation on the closing of the frontier and the contradictions of the US as a project.

One of my favorite aspects of the show is how all the wiseguys are stuck in the same End of History trap as the rest of the US. They sit around the pork store or the club talking about the good ol' days and gangster movies when their thing was really a force to be reckoned with while they barely run their outfits on stuff like gambling, drugs, and opportunistic theft. But then every time someone from "the good ol' days" shows up out of prison, they always immediately start fucking everything up for everyone else to the point where they must be dealt with in order to preserve what little action they have left. It's that veneration and disillusionment of their own mythology that is both darkly funny and poignant about the show and the audience.

All those late night hosts and not a single joke between them.

There's some sort of improv corollary to this thesis as well.

That story is apocryphal to the best of my knowledge. The biggest factor was that Jennifer Lien was struggling with some severe mental health situation and was struggling through the grind of TV production by self-medicating. Combine that with sagging ratings, the writers' inability to figure out what to do with her character, and the inclusion of Jeri Ryan in season 4 as the new sexy character and her removal from the show was all but inevitable. It breaks my heart because Kes deserved better.

Always the correct stance!

Rick Berman resented the young actor who had his own ideas for his character and wanted to collaborate on what Harry's arc would look like, and as a result Garrett got sidelined probably the soonest and harshest of any of the rest of the cast (besides Kes who was written out for several reasons).

You can't turn over a single rock in Star Wars without unearthing entire ecosystems of incredible nonsense.

You love to see it.