SeinWorld
louWhen Seinfeld was nearing the end of its run, talk surrounded which character would be spun off into their own TV show. Were any of them strong enough to carry their own shows, though? Because as much as each character is iconic, as different as they each are, they’re also part of a set: Jerry, George, Elaine, Kramer. They each represent a different facet of the human psyche, so they complement one another in how they function independently, and as a whole. Could any of them carry their own show week-in, week-out? Popular shows have often tried to spin off characters. The Brady Bunch came up with the sequel The…
The Next Incarnation of Bond
The James Bond franchise is amazing. And not necessarily for the right reasons. Of the twenty-five official movies, I’d posit there’s only one truly great film – From Russian With Love. It’s a grounded spy thriller with brilliant performances from Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, and Lotte Lenya. Then the series becomes more gimmicky, which irked Connery, and which the Roger Moore era truly embraced – perhaps to accommodate an era were movies were growing sensational in their storytelling. Of the other twenty-four movies, I’d suggest there’re a handful of good ones, and the rest are middling, forgettable, and – in some cases – terrible. I grew up when Roger Moore…