The real treasure was the hot friends we had sex with along the way.

I’ve never been someone who’s had a lot of terribly unpopular opinions, but two of my big ones are that I basically like the How I Met Your Mother finale and I think the last season of Game of Thrones was good.

Braff has become kind of an odd hate figure over the last decade or so, but Scrubs was a genuinely great show that kind of fell through the cracks in terms of broader popularity and critical praise. The podcast might suck (most podcasts do), but Scrubs is exactly the sort of show that would benefit from a thorough,…

I don’t feel strongly about this or anything, but there’s a chance Jesse’s just too kind to Wahlberg in this piece. I took a quick look at Wahlberg’s filmography, and aside from The Departed, I can’t really think of any other movie where he was actually good. I’ve heard good things about The Other Guys, but I haven’t…

This almost certainly isn’t the case (like, I’m 99.9 percent certain it isn’t), but I’ve wondered for a while if the show’s big reveal will be that Kim and Jimmy are actually still together during the events of Breaking Bad. The whole “total honesty combined with spousal privilege” thing actually works, and Kim…

In my twisted and subversive new movie, Suburban Hellscape, I provide viewers with an unsettlingly intimate portrait of a quiet suburban neighborhood that looks, on the surface, to be a pleasant place to live, but in reality turns out to be...

I think so, yeah. In his eyes, everyone at that level is Chuck. 

It’s interesting how the show indicts Jimmy’s resentment at the legal establishment by repeatedly showing that the people at the top of the ladder that he hates are actually pretty decent guys. We’re trained as audience members to instinctively sympathize with the protagonist, and so without really knowing better we…

I’ve always found Abrams’ reputation to be kind of fascinating, in that he’s mostly involved with things people generally like, and yet he seems to be held in fairly low regard. You and Ron Swanson make some great substantive points and I’m not qualified to engage with them (they seem right to me), but it’s kind of…

Eh, maybe. I agree some of the reaction is a little over the top, but I suspect that’s more a product of stress and anxiety combined with a surfeit of free time. This doesn’t strike me as the kind of thing that’s going to linger and actually damage any celebrity’s reputation - Wonder Woman 1984 is still going to make…

Jake’s straight-laced personal history is always a nice gag. 

America doesn’t have a functional health care system or a remotely adequate social safety net, but dammit, our streaming networks swing into action in the face of a crisis like motherfucking Zoro. 

Agreed. Kim dying or becoming a drug addict (another popular theory) feels like a Breaking Bad plot development, not a Better Call Saul one. I’m someone who’s still on Team Breaking Bad Was Better, but these are very different shows, and Kim going through some kind of devastating personal/professional challenge and,…

I’m with LaToya. My favorite runner in this episode was Rosa’s delight at Holt’s bitchiness.

I wouldn’t be shocked to see her show up for an episode or two. One of the interesting things the first three seasons did was use casting to sort of reflect how people come and go into your life and assume different roles at different times in it.

Brockmire using its last season to catapult into total speculative fiction is a weird, big swing (excuse the pun), and I’m utterly fascinated by it.

Man, you beat me to this. It wouldn’t be the most sophisticated gag in the world, but “Kevin Hart, unstoppable assassin” would, at least for a few seconds, be a really funny subversion of expectations.

The almost universal reaction to this show - “It was great until it got all silly and supernatural” - would seem to illustrate a fundamental truth of criticism, which is that “genre” stories earn more acceptance the more successfully they ape traditional, realistic fiction and the less they actually resemble horror,…

Seems weird that Lindelof co-wrote this.

I caught Needful Things on TV the other day, and it was predictably pretty bad (I liked the book, though). But von Sydow is so good in it - by turns charming, debonair, terrifying and brutish. I always appreciate when an actor takes a role in a crummy movie they could have easily phoned in and actually turns in a…