Amentep

8 episodes both seasons.

Director said it was Cthullu. The idea was that Tian (for LovecrafTian) was a business that fronted for the cults that tried to raise Cthullu in the short story. They failed before (as hinted in the film with the abandoned station) and would try again per the cover-up and stated intentions to continue their activities in the newspaper articles at the end.

I liked Underwater for what it was. The final monster was straight up Cthullu though. For my part, I watched Altman and Feifer's adaption of E. C. Segar's POPEYE comic strip with Robin Williams, Shelly Duvall, Paul Smith, Ray Walston, etc. Its the 40th anniversary of the films premiere, in December 1980. Its long been a favorite film. Possibly one of the best odd-ball films ever made. It still amazes me that the studio so hated working with Altman that they played up it being a failure (despite making 3 times its budget in the initial box office run).

Fixed that for you, mathematically speaking.

Whedon was part of the investigation related to Ray Fisher's allegations about the activities of Whedon (and Johns and Berg) related to the filming of Justice League after Zach Snyder left. WB recently said that they completed their investigation and took remedial action. In a movie that no one is sure is coincidental, Whedon stepped down off of the show he created for HBO Max (a division of WB) called THE NEVERS, citing exhaustion. This was the only investigation I was aware of, although Whedon revealed obliquely some bad behavior after his wife split from him and made accusations against him, IIRC, so I suppose its possible there's more than one investigation going on into his activities.

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John le Carré

Charlie Pride

RIP. One of those actors who seemed to pop up in all sorts of movies, a lot of times in small roles, but occasionally larger ones.

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Artist Richard Corben. Possibly best known in pop culture for DEN which was adapted into one of the segments for the HEAVY METAL movie.

"Just between you and me, I'm really excited about the Ring Dings and the Pepsi"

Oscar Issac cast as Solid Snake for the Metal Gear Solid adaption: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/oscar-isaac-to-star-in-sonys-metal-gear-solid

Filming on the third season has been held up due to the pandemic. I think they were (or are or will be) resuming filming this month.

When I was a kid, we would always belt out as a family the la-la-lalalala along with this song every Christmas. Not sure what that says about us...

The Wikipedia article is a distillation of older data (their current data puts the US at 121) from Vision of Humanity, a supposedly non-partisan site tracking data on peace and security worldwide. I've not heard of them, so no clue on their reliability or validity in their data.

I never got the Yuuzhan Vong. I'm not sure force-immune sadistic aliens, who seemed to be a cross between the Githyanki and Cenobites, was really what Star Wars was crying out for. And force-immunity seemed like a gimmick that existed only to make their threat credible, but didn't really fit the Star Wars universe, IMO.

Yes.

Allergy to one or more of the ingredients in the vaccine? No clue if any of the COVID-19 vaccines have ingredients that people would be typically allergic to, but that's one of the usual (and generally least controversial) reasons to refuse a vaccine.