I just discovered (and binged) it earlier this month; I think it would be improved by getting rid of the musical interludes, but other than that it was quite enjoyable.

Matt Berry is a national treasure, albeit from the nation of England. His hipster comedy cred is unimpeachable, what with stints in The IT Crowd and Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (alongside Richard Ayoade in both cases) and a less well-received show called Toast of London (currently on Netflix) that is not without its…

The Western routes are indeed beautiful from what I’ve heard, but as someone who’s taken the Texas Eagle from Chicago to Austin several times, that scenery is a real drag. See, the part of this route that happens during daylight hours is spent in the scrubby, flat Midwest, so it’s a whole lot of plainsy…

Fun fact: Cameron Esposito wrote a series of columns for this very website, not that long ago! https://kinja.com/cameron-esposito-archive

The only thing I don’t like about how they’re incorporating “Red Son” into the Supergirl story is that, for me, what made Red Son so compelling in the comics is that we had Soviet Superman instead of the true-blue American version — a crucial difference, because having both of them around fighting each other kinda…

Counterpoint: Rogue One is better than at least four of the extant Star Wars movies with Jedi in, and Solo is better than at least three of them. And the most entertaining episodes of the various cartoon incarnations of the show are not the Jedi-mythology heavy ones.

Farscape was the show that made me realize how much better Star Wars would’ve been without the Jedi. The story of hundreds of different alien species — many of which are barely hominid — working, playing, scheming, and fighting together is way more compelling than two tribes of stage magicians with a few telekinesis…

I think part of what makes this work so well is that comic book stories generally flow in 6-8 issue arcs too, which doesn’t leave a lot of time for filler or “pointless action because it’s time for action” detours.

Image went a lot further than content when it came to the Satanic/Suicide Panic of the 1980s. Ozzy Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution” also came in for criticism, despite the fact that anybody capable of following a metaphor soon figures out that it’s a warning about the dangers of alcohol abuse rather than an exhortation…

I agree with this in general — especially about Painkiller, which never gets old for me — but those killer tracks spread through the ‘80s material make the rest of them worth it as far as I’m concerned.

I mean, you’ve got “Grinder”, “Heading Out to the Highway”, about half of “Screaming For Vengeance” (the title track…

Interesting to note (for me, anyway) that despite their leather-clad image, Judas Priest had also been putting out a more poppy, radio-friendly brand of hard rock/metal dating back to the late ‘70s, dropping covers of Joan Baez, Spooky Tooth, and Fleetwood Mac songs starting with 1977's Sin After Sin, while 1980's Brit…

I completely agree. Lex Luthor is a towering figure in the Superman universe. Should he really be played by Charlie Sheen’s co-star so soon after being played by a poor man’s Michael Cera?

CW shows seem to have a habit of overlaying a current pop song as diegetic music over any scene of family and/or friends gathering together at home or in a bar, often as the denoument/last scene of the episode.

(I wish I could believe that they aren’t always artists signed to Warner Media, but I am way too cynical for…

Thinking about it, if there is one place on earth which belongs specifically to Kal-El and not at all to Clark Kent, it would be the Fortress of Solitude. It’s the place where he goes to be the Last Son of Krypton (except for all those others floating around in space on an asteroid but, details!) surrounded by…

DS9 did its share of both; the alien crew members tended to favor alien foods (“kanar” for Cardassians, “hasperat” for Bajorans, “tube grubs” for Ferengi) and the humans gravitated either toward familiar human dishes or the alien planet + human food-word style, like “Idanian spice pudding.”  This seems like a logical…

Back when I was reading TV Tropes all the time I wanted one for “the third example is from Earth” because of all the times I’ve heard dialogue like “...one of the greatest novelists, like S’urang, Kele-shem-koth, or Isaac Asimov” in science fiction shows.

See, I thought the hat was kinda cute. Then I realized it’s just a flustered Abbi who’s cute and the hat just makes her look, as you say, like a Marioverse character.

I thought it might’ve been Carl Reiner, which would’ve been a helluva get but this is the last season of a great show with a lot of buzz right now...

Those of us who’ve been around since the salad days when everything that was even a little bit interesting (and plenty that wasn’t) usually got a full season’s worth of coverage — and serieses that had been canceled for decades would be recapped in full — remember the day the Big Boss put his cards down on the table…

As a non-doc watcher who has nevertheless enjoyed most of the episodes of this show, this is the first one that really hasn’t grabbed me. I enjoy musical parodies, but when you’re parodying hyper-verbal cleverness you really need to bring the clever*, and other than the big solo number riffing on early ‘70s…