The ‘Project Hail Mary’ Lego set and ‘Hoppers’ reviewed, Connor Storrie hosts ‘SNL’ and the Big Mac and Big Arch face off

When Lego announced a few weeks back that it had created a Lego Icons set bringing the Hail Mary spaceship to life in brick form, I was surprised. Sure, Lego does movie tie-ins all the time ... but a set based on an adaptation of a novel that isn’t part of a series or franchise? The Dune Ornithopter Lego set sits on a shelf right next to my desk, but that’s Dune. I decided that it was time for Popculturology to take a page out of Snackology’s playbook and pick up the Project Hail Mary set for a review ...

I caught Hoppers last night, accidentally buying a ticket for a 3D screening. (Whoops.) Thankfully having to wear a pair of flimsy RealD glasses over my real glasses didn’t distract from how wonderful Pixar’s latest film is. Or how weird Hoppers is.

With the buzz surrounding the Big Arch Burger (and it being the most visited article on The Omnicosm over the past thirty days), I posted on Bluesky on Wednesday night that I was going to buy another Big Arch Burger and a Big Mac and pit them against each other. And I’ve done exactly that.

This was an episode of SNL where the host was eager to break through, eager to prove that he belonged on the Studio 8H stage ... but the show couldn’t meet that moment. There are a lot of SNL episodes where a host gets written around or can’t keep up with the pace of the show, but it was hard to watch this weekend’s episode and not wonder why the show’s writers hadn’t come better prepared to allow Connor Storrie to fully capitalize on this moment.

Season 51 of SNL has given us episodes hosted by superstars like Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande. But this weekend, we’re going to get what has the potential to be the biggest episode of the season. Ryan Gosling is back..