Unpopular Opinion: If we must have more X-Files let it be with new characters or even a reboot. The X-Files is the kind of show that thrives on its formula. Let’s be real: nobody gave a damn about Mulder’s abducted sister being an overarching story with a real payoff, let alone the impending invasion. The X-Files…

Unfortunately, he still appears to have all the control. And there are still some much better writers (Morgan & Wong, and Darin; plus they had some promising fresh writers this season as well) that are loyal to him, for whatever reasons.

I presumed they just meant since she’s older/cancer survivor/whatever the heck else Chris Carter has put her through for the funsies rather than some sort of Virgin Mary type situation. But honestly at this point, who the hell knows.

The most recent phase of Jim Carrey’s career has been marked by 1) cosmic declarations about the nature of self in an ever-shifting universe, and 2) the fact that he is a painter now.

He is definitely the most accomplished of actors-turned-dilettante-painters I’ve seen. I’m not personally enamored of his stuff, but he has an actual strong formal, structural understanding of color, composition, and style.

I am a long-time Kids in the Hall fan, and I had SUCH a hard time getting past his vocalization for Glen.. but now that i have, I am weirded out when I hear him speak in Normal-Mark-Voice.

I don’t think we all have to wait around until we’re perfect before we’re allowed to criticize people’s gross behavior.

Normally, I might agree with you but Billy was AT WORK when this was said TO HIM by an interview subject and his follow-up was not a question, asking the sleazebag to clarify or explain but to chuckle along, tacitly agreeing with the sentiment. Fuck him.

On the one hand Bush did what a journalist should do, make a celebrity comfortable enough to put their real personality on display.

Wow - that woman is amazing! Maher expected her to chime in on his “pageants, amirite?” inane crap and she responded to that while deftly getting back on track to calling Billy Bush out for being cowardly (and challenging all the viewers to speak up in similar situations when it’s easier to just go with the flow).

I’d be all for a return to the good old days of the 50's, when the top income brackets paid 90%, union membership was over 50%, and the average CEO only made 20 times more than a worker, not 350.

What makes me the most nuts about conservatism’s dewey-eyed nostalgia for an America that never actually existed is the closest we ever came to that vision of our national mythology only existed for about 30 years directly after WW II, when an unprecedented amount of money was put into domestic spending and education.…

A steady diet of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh turned my dad from a sweet, if right-leaning, relative centrist into a White Nationalist. He’d never call himself that, and he’d be furious if he knew I call him that, but it’s what he’s become. Roger Ailes can rot, and I hope Murdoch follows immediately.

Let’s go live to our field reported Slim Charles for his take:

I admit I haven’t seen American Beauty, but yes, from what I’m reading, for the love of god you can pause a sexual encounter for like 5 seconds to put a beer down somewhere else. WERE THERE NO TABLES IN THE ROOM?

Absolutely dead on about American Beauty. Love Alan Ball’s writing and Mendes’s direction, but whether we’re supposed to have any sympathy for Lester Burnham is up in the air, for sure. I never have.

Also? Ben Stiller’s character, Michael, in Reality Bites. He’s supposed to be the lame boyfriend alternative to hot, inconsiderate, wounded musician Ethan Hawke. Stiller gets dumped on because he has a job, wears a suit, tries to be socially adept, and makes a reality TV pilot that focuses on Winona and her friends’…

I was so mad with what they did to Knives in Scott Pilgrim.

One of my favorite movies in college was WA’s Everyone Says I Love You. One of the subplots is that WA’s estranged wife is the therapist for Julia Roberts. His daughter regularly evesdrops on her mom’s sessions with all her patients and ends up passing along the info about Julia Robert’s dreams and intimate fantasies…

Omg I have always watched that scene where she “kills the mood out of fear that he’ll spill beer on her Italian silk couch” and thought that would be me. He really would have spilled the beer. I just couldn’t let that happen. I’ve thought about that scene a lot and have tried to work against my calling as a neurotic…