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Is 'Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren?' an acceptable substitute?

They tried that with After Earth, which he quietly wrote; didn't help it much.

He's the prisoner being transported or something through the marshal's office who takes a hostage with a shank and Raylan coaxes him out with fried chicken. First season probably? I think he lives at the end, like Raylan finding a solution other than shooting him was the point.

Jay-Z: Tidal is not reaching the people in the streets! We need the illest motherfucker alive to fix this shit!
Beyonce: Get me the Norwegian Ministry of Environment.

I think I got a little hard when I saw the accurate Commodore 64 command on screen.

I think the only example of this lampshading the product placement tactic that I've really liked was that episode of Always Sunny set at Dave 'n Buster's, because that's the only one that really felt like they were getting one over on the advertiser. All the "haha isn't this clever how we're slipping ad copy in"

This might be an experience limited to those who didn't go that far away for college or post-grad life, but in the years after high school I actually run into a lot of people who were dicks in high school at a bar or wherever, and a lot of them made a point of saying "Sorry I was a dick, here's a beer" and they turn

Exactly, here's a guy with one of the coolest jobs on the planet and he's still mad about "prom kings". The prom king of Andrés du Bouchet's class is probably an insurance adjuster. The prom king of Andrés du Bouchet's class probably hasn't thought about Andrés du Bouchet in years.

The "nerd culture" fixation on high school and what they perceive as its zero-sum mode of socialization is deeply unhealthy. We'd all be better off without it and the stupid shit it leads to, like accusing people of being false nerds, or the prior belief that contemporary mass-produced corporate genre fiction is worth

If I had my way Conan would be doing a weekly show that's the talk/variety analogue of what John Oliver is doing for the news satire. Weekly, less rigid in format, less slavishly topical, devote your time to the stuff really works for him like the remote bits.

Trying to sort it all out, it seems like nearly every one of these extraneous-by-this-show's-standards characters is wrapped up in the decision to keep Nina on the show. Zinaidia doesn't seem to have much more purpose than a bargaining chip for Stan and Oleg. Lisa got a little characterization when she first appeared

I haven't found any individual episode much short of fantastic, but on the season as a whole, I wonder if the whole enterprise wouldn't have felt tighter without Lisa, Maurice, Tatiana, Zinaidia and — as much as I hate to say it cause she's awesome — Nina. Nothing wrong with what they're doing except not being Paige,

It also manages to sound weirdly racist (against whom, I don't even know). Like some kind of mocking pidgin, that's not just me, right? It sounds like something Jar-Jar Binks would say.

Yeah I always wonder how a director's contract works that makes dropping a film as easy as it seems to be, or if most of the time when this happens maybe ink hasn't been put to paper yet.

The shows that stick out to me as benefiting from the weekly schedule aren't the mythology-heavy ones so much as the suspense-driven dramas. I loved having a week to stew over each episode in the stretch runs of the Shield, Breaking Bad and currently Justified. When I was watching Lost live I often wondered if the

Informative, happy to admit I don't know that much about the realities there. Still think a flashy, publicly announced balloon scheme seems wasteful compared to the low-key stuff described in that article (which does say The Interview was panned by NKs who saw it). Maybe that's actually where the value is — something

Never understood this plan:
"Hey, starving oppressed people, we have gifts for you! No, it's not food or medicine. It's a thing you probably can't use and will probably get you sent to a concentration camp for even looking at. You're welcome!"

It's the Vaughning of the Age of Vincequarius.

The handful I genuinely want to finish are Avadon 2, Avernum:EftP, Dark Souls, Divinity 2, Expeditions: Conquistador and Sang-Froid, but I'll be surprised if I get around to even one.

I have a whole category on Steam tagged "Coming Back I Swear".