Do Professional Critics suffer from just a bit of Netflix Derangement Syndrome? Every time Netflix puts out a bad (or even just mediocre!) show or movie we get anguished think pieces about the pernicious influence of The Algorithm. We don’t read the same sort of stories when ABC releases, like, a crummy sitcom. “How Wo…

I am a huge of the Archer Farms frozen pizzas. Archer Farms is a Target house brand, but they make pretty good stuff, and their frozen pizzas are genuinely excellent. They’ve almost ruined other frozen pizzas for me, actually.

There’s a fairly amusing joke in Friends when Chandler has to explain to Phoebe that “Spiderman” isn’t actually a name.

Yeah, I’ve heard the story about the frog line, and it’s still a pretty bad joke, even with the set up. 

Amram better win a Best Supporting Actress Emmy for that performance.

These auto-complete interviews are never quite as funny as I expect them to be.

I think if we’re being honest Josh isn’t - and never has been - a particularly interesting character. And that was fine for the first couple seasons, when the entire point of Josh was that he was an empty vessel into which Rebecca could pour all her dreams and disappointments. But the idea of spending multiple…

Fortunately, this guy’s losing by about 25-30 points, which gives this whole thing that lovely sheen of desperation. 

“There were two sides to that billboard...and they both hurt equally.”

I do hope the prison plotline is something they wrap up and dispose of in an episode or two. I’d hate to see that get dragged out and have Rebecca spend, like, six episodes of the final season in jail. 

But when does Stephen Dorff fight Blade?

Even though we live in a world where superhero movies dominate the box office and Marvel movies actually get good reviews, there is, I think, still a healthy level of genre prejudice in the critical community, and so “genre” movies - horror, comic book, sci-fi, what have you - tend to get more praise when they can…

Blandly handsome white guys grow on trees in Australia. 

My working theory for actors like Jason Clarke (and Jai Courtney and Sam Worthington and Insert Other Bland White Dude here) is that it’s all about the old West Wing line: 90% of life is showing up. Sure, they’re not good actors and they’re not charismatic, but they’re reasonably good-looking, they’re reliable, they…

And then you died of tuberculosis! 

The movie might be good, bad or indifferent, and Bale’s overall performance might be good, bad or indifferent, but strictly in terms of mimicry, Bale’s Cheney impression really is stunning. 

I do think it’s at least partially a statement on the arbitrary nature of these sorts of hearings - parole, license reinstatement, etc. Jimmy screwed up and lost his license and that’s fair. The bar association sets criteria for him to re-gain his license and makes him jump through certain hoops and that’s fair. But…

I suspect Saban would answer a prank question the same way he would a legitimate one.

So many AC stories in the more recent games unspool slowly, languidly, over the course of dozens and dozens of hours...and then at around the 3/4 mark just rush forward in a tsunami of plot momentum, clumsy exposition and new characters who are both incredibly important and barely written at all.

You were going to give me your kidney, dearest brother.