It’s not about whether they’re legally bound to stay, but how the decision was made and choices were presented.

Agreed. I’m fine with Sam and pretty much anybody else, I just don’t like Sam & Ruth. And I realize the show is not called GLOW Is Where All These Interesting People Met So Let’s Follow Them Around Instead Of Showing Wrestling, but I don’t mind a little peanut butter in my chocolate either.

David Rose on Schitt’s Creek had an elegant way of way of explaining his sexuality:

Toward that point, I read a fascinating piece a few weeks ago where the author, an older gay man, argues that today’s younger, “gender-fluid” generation can’t quite conceive of how starkly the battle lines were drawn during the height of the AIDS crisis, when the entire culture outside of your fellow travelers either…

Three seasons in, GLOW is becoming the second Jenji Kohan-linked show in a row where I care very little about the central character and their largely self-induced travails, but find all the other characters and plotlines fascinating and well worth the price of admission.

For a second I thought Arthie had gotten Yolanda’s haircut (in addition to taking her appointment) as some sort of weird strategy to win her back, but then I got a better look at it. Hey, I’ve had the same haircut for 30 years, it takes me a second, OK?

Hay, that’s uncalled for!

Frankly, in a just world everyone else would have to do my bidding.

I have an R2-D2 bleep as my text alert. It only takes about a second and a half, but that makes it about 3x as long as the average alert noise, and even I wince when I get an unexpected barrage of texts that should probably be an email and R2 just bleeps and whistles - at full volume, because how else will I hear my…

This is valuable information -- I lived in Austin for about 5 years on and off in the late ‘90s-early ‘00s, and Taco Cabana was always a serviceable choice, by which I mean much better than Taco Bell while still not asking you to do anything crazy like get out of your car. I go back to Austin to visit friends about…

Thor had lost a lot more than just a fight with Thanos, though. Mother, father, adopted brother (with whom he reconciled), girlfriend, planet, almost all of his people, destiny to be the King of the Asgardians (i.e. the whole purpose of his “are you worthy?” arc through his own films) — that stuff is all gone by the…

Ultimately I can’t really hang with Jackie, because people who cause trouble and get mad when I’m not “on their side” because I won’t defend that behavior are emotional terrorists.

It is, but it was a riff, so it had to fit the situation. And when you say it all creepy like that, that’s what makes it like Marathon Man. Or so I believe.

Well, I’m old-fashioned enough to believe that a Big Bad that’s outfoxed our intrepid cast of characters for five seasons deserved a Big Bad climactic ending, complete with vengeance banter, rather than being pushed into a well and getting his Small Bad sidekick pushed down with him in the space of ten seconds. The…

Not sure if Barry’s “Are they safe?” was also an attempt to reference the famous unauthorized dental work scene from Marathon Man — but generally, if you think you’ve heard a reference on Archer, you have. So I’m putting it out there.

Final rankings nobody asked for:
1. Archer: The ISIS Years
2. Archer: Dreamland
3. Archer: 1999
4. Archer: Danger Island
5. Archer: Vice

I’m just about at the end of a Spartacus rewatch, and holy shit, there is not an ounce of flab on this show. Every season tells its own story, has its own theme, its own memorable and fully-realized primary antagonist, and unfolds so beautifully (for a level of “beautifully” that features enough on-screen steamy sex…

Loved You’re The Worst’s final season, and final episode. That show was such a delightful surprise, and for its fucked-up ensemble to grope their way to a version of happiness over four seasons without becoming any less fucked-up was a mark of really sharp writing that avoided tired “happy ending” tropes.

Cedric Benson left the game with an injury, thus forcing the entire run game (65% of every Bears offense worth anything) onto Jones’s shoulders; the two backs had shared the load more equally throughout the season. Combined with great returns from Hester and a defense that created turnovers with stunning regularity,…

Central IL, specifically Springfield, is also wherefrom my personal White Whale, often-coveted but never tried, the Horseshoe Sandwich springs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_sandwich