I’ll go further and say that it wasn’t Trump that turned opening monologues into a politics-first environment; it was the combination of Election 2000 (a month-long story that was both important and absurd, which ate everything else) and 9/11 (a traumatizing attack delivered right to the epicenter of the US…

I can’t remember what Black Hole is anymore and I’m not sure I ever knew. But if it brings more spy stuff and more Sue into the picture, welcome back Black Hole!

I’ll admit that I have mostly watched her more genre-tastic performances (V For Vendetta, Star Wars 1-3, the Thor movies, and in another vein, Garden State) but from where I sit... we’ve kinda been sold a bill of goods with the idea that Natalie Portman is more than adequate at acting. She gets lots of high-profile…

My working theory on the Thor movies to date is that the more Jane Foster they have in them, the less enjoyable they are. Jane is all over Dark World and it is a bit of a slog (though the vertically-oriented Dark Elf ships still look really cool, IMO). She’s nowhere to be found in Ragnarok and it’s the best of the…

Hey now, you’re leaving out all kinds of important characterization such as:

Emily Hampshire portrayed two of my favorite characters in TV in the last half-decade: Stevie Budd on Schitt’s Creek, and Jennifer Goines on 12 Monkeys. The two roles couldn’t be more different, but she is fantastic in both, bringing very complex and challenging characters to life in very different contexts. She’s…

As somebody who has not yet taken the plunge, I think the biggest initial challenge for me will be getting the idea of Mrs. McMurray as an action badass into my head.

Have you watched Angie Tribeca? Rashida Jones ain’t too shabby herself. It’s on Hulu if you haven’t had the pleasure.

Hell is probably unionized, so it’s a LIFO situation.

• Did Maze choose the fake name “Steve” on the dating app just because it rhymes with “Eve?” Did Eve choose to even talk to Steve because it rhymes with her name? Did the writers choose “Steve” because of the old saying, “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve?” So now it’s “Steve” and Eve? (I’m sorry.)

In earlier days I used to say that I like each Liz album about half as much as the one that came before. EIG is all killer/no filler, Whip-Smart doesn’t quite hit those heights but still has many can’t-miss classics, wcse has a glimmer or two of the old Liz in “Johnny Feelgood” and “Baby Got Going” and “Ride,” and…

In earlier days I used to say that I like each Liz album about half as much as the one that came before. EIG is all killer/no filler, Whip-Smart doesn’t quite hit those heights but still has many can’t-miss classics, wcse has a glimmer or two of the old Liz in “Johnny Feelgood” and “Baby Got Going” and “Ride,” and…

...producer Brad Wood (who brought us her classic early records Exile In Guyville, Whip-Smart, and part of whitechocolatespaceegg)...

I noped out of AHS after the third season, but there is definitely more than one story going on in Season 2 (Asylum), at least. That season was so delightfully bonkers in the way it threw simply everything at the wall that I wondered at the time if there would be any horror tropes left to make a third season of the…

In the Dark Matter episode I linked, he’s the boss scientist on some secret project and every time he dismissed another character I muttered “OK, see you!” under my breath,

I liked this choice too, and yet I feel like she then missed an opportunity to actually be of help. Lucifer had a very specific problem at that point: he needed to convince some of his siblings to elect him God. Chloe could probably have helped with that, since many of them were still thinking of him as the jerk who…

This was my first thought as well. They were very careful to say where Dan isn’t, but nobody has bothered to interrogate the premise that he necessarily has to be in Hell if he isn’t in Heaven. Coming to Netflix in 2022: Ghost Dan!

I get how Amenadiel didn’t feel supported by Dan’s rather cool reception of his big career change idea, but I also felt like what he was trying to express is that Amenadiel (an actual angel!) is SO impressive and capable and powerful that he should be bringing his talents to bear on a larger scale than just walking a…

...Appa leading a team of “space rangers” who fly “star fighters” patrolling and protecting some kind of new galactic “republic”...

The cicadas are posting on Kinja now! It’s the End Times!