I generally am a huge Ferrell fan and Step Brothers didn't land with me at all. It certainly had its moments, and I do quote it occasionally with friends, but it's easily last in any personal ranking of goofy Will Ferrell comedies.

I don't think the storyline is all that enthralling just from a viewer perspective, but I sort of want it to keep going just because it's amusing to see the reviewer(s) complain about it every time it comes up.

IIRC she was paid $20M to Pratt's $13M or something to that effect.

One singular contemporary who is basically making all the money that isn't being paid to his Marvel co-stars, on top of it.

I can't believe I'm going to the mat pseudo-defending this atrocious finale, but again, Barney is a lousy human being. It wouldn't have made any sense for him to turn into a full-blown woke feminist type given the previous 9 seasons. Transitioning from taking advantage of women like that to (in his view) trying to…

I was just as annoyed by it as you were. I'm just saying that's probably why they did it - not that they'd ever admit as much.

The How I Met Your Dad spinoff was already in the works by then, and I'm guessing there's about a 100% chance they didn't show his daughter's mom because she was going to be a character in that spinoff.

I know we're all predisposed now to be outraged at slut-shaming, but Barney was shown the entire run of the show to be a (at minimum) lousy human being. It made sense for that to be his idea of improving as a human as a result of his baby.

And he does end up alone, for whatever it's worth. He just becomes a (slightly) better person as a result of the baby. The finale was loathsome for the most part, but NPH made Barney's part work better than it should've.

The problem was kind of the opposite of your last few sentences - Cristin Milioti was so freaking adorable as the mother that the idea of Ted ending up back with Robin in the end was not intriguing to most viewers. To say nothing of the fact that they literally spent 6 1/2 seasons convincing us Barney/Robin was a good…

I love that this comment ended up with exactly 9 upvotes.

I adore Vue. All the channels I need, very stable streaming (I recommend Fire TV box but hear good things about PS4 and Apple TV as well), price is right ($35/mo, though it's $10 more if you live in one of the major markets that get local stations).

DTV basically fell all over themselves trying to get me to stay when I dropped it for PS Vue. They offered me as low as $50/mo for the package I already had, basically half-price. Of course, it was still $15/mo more than Vue is.

I will add my praises for Vue here. No idea what your channel selection normally is, but I'm a sports guy and it's great for that - carries just about every channel I ever needed with DirecTV. It's too bad that streaming means there's a slight delay from live, but I'm used to that from MLB.TV, so it wasn't much of an…

I suspect GLAAD is fine perpetuating that to keep pressure on movie studios to increase representation.

You're really harshing the Outrage Police's buzz with all this sense-making, man.

My speaker was some author who'd written a book I'd never heard of. I don't remember a word of her speech.

Yeah, ND's students are probably more pro-life than the average high-ranking college (although even that I'm not sure about), but other than that they're pretty much a mini-Ivy in terms of their students' politics, I think.

There's no proof, but some around there (and I) believe they did invite Trump but he chose to go somewhere (Liberty) he believed he'd face less resistance.

The butler wasn't previously unseen, he was definitely in SM2 - and he may have been in SM1, though I can't recall offhand.