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2017 TV REDUX My streaming slowed down a ton in 2017. In fact my TV consumption was barely a trickle (besides sports and wrestling). We recently discovered a 2017 hidden gem in TruTV’s I’m Sorry— Andrea Savage’s ridiculously hilarious comedy. The show hinges on the hilarity of Andrea’s career as a comedy writer and how she juggles being a mom and wife at the same time. Pure comedy gold. Besides that, I’ve caught up on Better Call Saul and, I must say, I enjoy that almost as much as Breaking Bad. Bob Odenkirk’s performance is nothing short of mesmerizing. —LV
TIME FOR JUSTICE I feel like Luis is down playing his frustration with DC Extended Universe killing the best movie Superman. The feelings are so repressed he even looks at me like I’m speaking gibberish when I say Justice League 2. (But, when I googled a picture for this piece, the above picture was attached to a blog about Zack Snyder saying the crosses in the background of this set would have been addressed in JL2—until there wasn’t a JL2.) Luis had to wait three years between Superman killing Zod and then Doomsday killing Superman. This is not the way DCEU should have treated its best movie version of the best superhero. Luis simply says, though, “The culmination of Superman vs. Batman: Dawn of Justice was the death of Superman at the hands of Doomsday. With the release of Justice League shortly after NYCC 17, I was both eagerly anticipating the film as well as trying to find any information at all on how they would treat the death (and return) of the man of steel. As Madeline likes to remind me, I was always quick to point out that the ‘S’ in the ‘You Can’t Save The World Alone’ always featured the Superman shield. So even if he didn’t appear alive in the film, he was definitely set to reappear.” As a cameo?! The repression. Searching just now in June 2020 to check if Cavill appeared in CW’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths” when Brandon Routh and Tom Welling did, I found more than a few “DCEU did Cavill wrong” articles. At right, Yadvender Singh Rana designed a new costume for Cavill’s future appearances in the DCEU franchise. While other fans are excited for Snyder to release a new cut of Justice League on HBOMax, the only thing I think Luis would want to see is a new ending on Man of Steel and less of an attempt to make Superman the Dark Knight. —MV
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Art Department Weekly • Conventions 2017
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NOT SORRY I sat through a 35-minute Yahoo! interview with Andrea Savage to find out what’s happening with Season 3 of I’m Sorry. That interview and hunting around for promo art gave me all the words to explain what I like I about this show. It’s sweet and raunchy. It has no laugh track. Tom Everett Scott is a dramatic actor, so he’s never going for the laugh—and then it’s that much more believable that they are a real couple. (See my review of Amy Schumer Learns to Cook in the previous issue.) It’s the show about working moms we never knew we needed. Season 3 did start filming, but Savage doesn’t seem to know when they will get to resume, and edit, and release new episodes. —MV
