It's also terribly designed as a game, right? It's just an excuse for Steve Harvey to trick like a pastor into saying "dildos" for $214.

Since it's often most convenient to me to see movies at like noon on a Tuesday I managed to see The Informant! and Wolf of Wall Street by myself — as in, the only person in the theater.

Cox's plot is actually the one that probably suffers the most from the unexpected cancellation. "Setup" and "payoff" aren't the right words for this show, but the theater troupe felt like something that would be more fully realized in the season that never came to pass.

Most important thing might be the Ray blog entry that should put a cap on the rehab story that was unnecessarily sidelining him for the entire revival after the previous hiatus. If this wasn't just a Christmas one-off, that could go a long way to making this more successful than the last attempt (which has some really…

A person named "Ancient Shenanigan" who enjoys crispy stellas might like to know that there is A NEW ACHEWOOD STRIP TODAY!

Four's a percent!

I neglected the pre-Southern Rock Opera albums for a long time but I'm glad I checked them out eventually. "Love Like This" is probably in my top 10 DBT songs. ("Uncle Frank" too, but I'll take the version off The Fine Print).

Probably why he flunked out of podiatry school.

It's weird how much the video for "Billie Jean" sucks compared to the amazing ones for "Beat It" or "Smooth Criminal".

How far back do you have to go to find the last season before this one where they clearly actually gave a shit every week? Like ten years I bet.

Unless you're intending to paint with it, what you want is a "pallet" of Crystal Gravy.

Only imperfect thing in that movie is the police bigshot hassling Reginald VelJohnson is way too dumb. Like it's fine if he's dumb and rigid, that's an achetype in these movies, but he sees the corpse John McClane threw onto the police car and is like "maybe he was a stockbroker and jumped to his death". That's way…

That's just a TV studio where they film Last Man on Earth and other non-dildo-related programs. Since it has nothing to do with dildos, I'll just shut these blinds.

That was the weird thing to me about the idea of the the David E. Kelley "Wonder Woman" — I'm not sure the David E. Kelley audience knew they were watching David E. Kelley shows as opposed to just tuning in for cops/doctors/lawyers and would seek out a David E. Kelley show in another genre.

There's that, and I think what I'm trying to say is: TV criticism, unlike criticism in any other medium, has a really common habit of reviewing the show that the reviewer hopes a pilot will turn into instead of the thing that's actually on the screen.

It's kinda weird to see the review titled "… despite soggy pilot" and end with "Pilot episode watched for review."

I'm just saying if your question is "who didn't instantly revile them?", I'm pretty sure the answer is in fact "a lot of people at the time". Not disagreeing that they were wrong.

The contemporary reviews were decent-to-positive. Not just the bought hacks, even Roger Ebert was giving them three stars.

Sure, I think those are far from exclusive. A ton of people are going into this with a wide range of preconceived opinions.

I think it's a fair guess that the converse will also happen — that there are millions of salivating nerds who've already decided that this movie is going to take the franchise back to the pre-prequel heights, and whatever is actually on the screen won't make a dent in their opinion for like five years. Remember — the…