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Even Stevens: Stevens Manor (2002)
Great Premise = Great Episode
This is one of my favorite episodes. They borrow a concept from a Boy Meets World episode and make it so much better. A whole slew of hilarious jokes (ping pong table, Lincoln bedroom, etc.) this show holds up and this episode is one of the best.
Patrick Explains: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2018)
"You're watching movies wrong"
Patrick H Wilhems is a man on a mission. His mission (it appears he's chosen to accept it) is to take film criticism back to it's glory days. The days when Gene and Roger could sit down and talk about a movie they just watched, talk about what they loved and hated, and sometimes even argue a little bit! One thing was clear: these guys were friends, and they LOVED movies. Patrick Wilhems' singular take on The Last Jedi (and other great films/franchises) harkens back to a time when people went to the movies to have a good time. They weren't looking for ways in which the artists behind the camera made "mistakes" or "didn't understand the characters." They wanted a good story portrayed in an interesting way that made them feel something.
That's what I want from a film critic. I'm not interested in their theories on how gravity works in Star Wars or (god forbid) whether or not Boba Fett died on Tatooine. If that's what you're looking for in film criticism, I'm sure you know where you can find it, but you won't find it here. That being said, if that's the kind of criticism you want, "you're watching movies wrong."