I love Abbott Elementary, but I think Ghosts is way funnier and the ensemble is a lot stronger; but because Abbott deals with Big Issues, the Academy likes it better, I guess.

Goddammit, now I’m feeling sentimental for Roy Kent.

This isn’t going to be worth the price for me if it means that local blackouts still apply, like they do on Hulu and ESPN+ for my local teams.

Summer, Highland Falls

I’d like to set Trek in that timeframe, but then focus on a different ship with different people. Tired of Kirk, Spock, etc. It’s the same problem Star Wars has by hyperfocusing on the Skywalkers and Skywalker-adjacent people in a universe that is so potentially large.

Our whole family still quotes, “My whole life flashed before me eyes... and it was really borin’” endlessly.

I never saw Homicide: Life on the Streets (something I obviously need to rectify), but I first saw Andre Braugher in Glory, and in a movie that was supposed to be an Oscar reel for Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick, I never forgot his astonishingly layered and nuanced portrayal of Thomas.

“The Actress” is one of my top-10 SNL bits of all time. And I love Emma Stone on SNL because not only does she commit 100% to every bit, she very obviously has all the dialogue memorized so that she never trips herself up looking for cue cards. But I think she needs more content from, say, Sarah Sherman than from the…

That’s a good point.

That album is basically perfection, so I will accept no criticisms of it.

I’ll take 24 straight hours of Freddie before I take another second of Anders Keith and his laborious, wildly dismaying lukewarm Niles impression.

Blef. My error. Mea culpa.

I see you didn’t have the courage to watch Grave of the Fireflies again for this listicle.

If this gets released on Netflix, I may have to do the unthinkable - subscribe to Netflix.

I saw it, and I thought it was a solid B. Iman Vellani was the clear highlight of the whole enterprise. Also, best evacuation scene in cinema history.

Narratively, I wasn’t a huge fan of the first What If...? (I really had no desire to watch zombie Avengers, for instance) but there was enough there to make me interested in S2. And the animation style is just amazing.

In an ideal world, this wouldn’t even be a story. Not just because of the social environment being calm enough not to FREAK THE FUCK OUT about everyone’s love lives, but also because entertainment reporters would write stories about an entertainer’s work instead of their sexual preferences.

I’m going to see this in a theater (a rarity for me these days) for no other reason than I want to see Iman Vellani.

I’m a’gonna do a deep cut here that AV Club missed: Bob Guiney’s cover of July for Kings’ “Girlfriend.”

I mean, sure, if you’re doing a forensic study on 1980s big-haired Stevie Nicks imitators and douchebag motorcycling mullet ‘n’ stache bros, Will To Power is perhaps the pinnacle of the form.