Every Ryan Murphy shows starts off good then goes off the rails. 

to you and Inspector hammer, this brief summary didn’t really get at a lot of the deeper issues. Basically, Dollar stores often push out grocery stores, frequently in areas where people are poor and don’t have a lot of options or transportation. Dollar stores have a smaller physical footprint, which means less rent,…

I love that Keaton frames his disclaimer about not wanting to be seen as being “too cool” for superhero movies in the least cool way possible. “I don’t say it like, I’m too groovy.’” TOO GROOVY. Awesome. I love Michael Keaton.

Kinda? Walmart actually sells name brand stuff at cheaper than you can get it elsewhere, if you can stomach the ethical issues that come with it - at least in my experience. So Walmart might be a bad deal for society but it’s usually a pretty good deal for shoppers.

So excited to hear that not only is there a new Perfect Strangers show, but apparently there are nine of them now! So with Manny Jacinto, is the idea that Balki is a Filipino rather than Eastern European? Can’t wait to see his “dance of joy”!

Agreed. This would be like an actor ducking out of Hidden Figures because Janelle Monae was in it.

I could see the producers overselling Madonna’s role in pre-production and making all the other actors feel like she was going to be the star and they should be lucky to have her. 

This... was a catastrophically bad career decision (she got her pay-or-play so maybe not that bad, but no one casts you for the roles you didn’t play). Based on silliness. Madonna’s role was pretty small. It’s not cameo-small, and she was definitely part of the draw for the film given that she was like the biggest pop…

They’re actors.

I wasn’t crazy about Jennings, but I would have taken him over this.

He wanted it, he just probably shot himself in the foot by being too much the ‘nice guy’.

Buzzy Cohen would like to have a word...

The basic appeal of Jeopardy is that anyone, from whatever walk of life, can win so long as they have the knowledge and skill. And nothing exemplifies that more than our new host, who rejected a bunch of more talented people and then gave himself this job.

 I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed. Can you ever just be whelmed?

Ken Jennings.  All they had to do was hire Ken Jennings.  

See I just went to a website to check these claims and it came out with this so...

I kinda liked the second episode more than the first, mostly because Holt/Kevin’s weird boring interests are usually never not funny (like describing the exact pantone colors of the bird, or Kevin describing a glass of water as “a snack”).

Maybe we could sway your opinion with a movie about St. Vincent disappearing up her own ass?

Anti-vaxxer. Pusher of the same kind of quack garbage as “Dr.” Oz. Rape apologist/slut-shamer. Proponent of dangerous, mentally scarring parental techniques.

...nah. Richards is a lame-ass choice but I didn’t have Bialik high on the list of guest hosts either. Buzzy Cohen was my choice as he did the best job of the guest hosts, but only actual every-day Jeopardy! viewer know who the hell he is, so of course he was never a contender anyway. Bialik was OK as host EXCEPT for…