But what isn’t in the film is Judge Robert Callahan shutting the whole thing down by saying, “I’m not going to allow the defense of demon possession, period” to a courtroom packed with curious onlookers and media from around the world.

The surprise is that every guest will actually be Timothy Olyphant. 

Peak TV is really a hell of a thing. Don freaking Cheadle and Regina Hall are in this Showtime series that gets no attention, no media coverage, no reviews or think pieces. There’s this whole ecosystem of television that just kind of exists outside all the usual venues and contexts. 

“Proto Man, you’ve just written King Ralph a dozen times on a cocktail napkin.”

Ah, so he really is a perfect choice for that Fountainhead adaptation.

Avengers is a great movie by itself, but I also think it’s a perfect example of Marvel’s ability to set the stage for long-term, serialized storytelling and character building.

Why, is that Jesse Plemons as a wacky German submarine commander?

It was a technically very impressive movie that never succeeded in making me care about the characters or story. Yes, it was very cool how Wright choregraphed it so the sound of slamming car doors synched up with the beats of the soundtrack, but there’s just a giant sucking chest wound at the heart of the movie. And…

I was just thinking the other day that while Cena isn’t as talented or charismatic as The Rock, he’s at that earlier stage in his career where he’s willing to do more interesting stuff that risks making him look ridiculous, while The Rock has now reached the point where he’s basically not allowed to look silly or…

Bill Hader has to be the best game show host in SNL history. He always managed to find an interesting character in what’s usually a totally thankless straight man role. 

Wait, is this a movie where Rosa Diaz gets to be openly happy about something?

The best part of the Vindicators episode was Rick putting everyone through an elaborate series of death traps, only to get bored with the whole thing and make one of the traps, “Um, make some three pointers.” 

I suspect Olyphant would have been great at about 90-95 percent of the Tony Stark stuff. I don’t know that he would have been able to sell the genuinely emotional moments from Civil War, Infinity War and Endgame nearly as well. 

I had a vaguely positive memory of Las Vegas from more than a decade ago, in the “dumb, but mostly entertaining” sense. But I watched a few episodes when some channel ran a marathon over New Year’s, and boy howdy, it doesn’t even clear that low bar. It’s just dumb. There was an episode where the character played by…

Ann Margret does a really good job in that clip conveying how intensely attracted she is to Elvis, all within the confines of early 60's Hollywood mores. Like, that is definitely a woman who wants to jump that dude’s bones.

Yeah, that always gets me too. I mean, I can absolutely see myself trying to be complimentary and going way overboard about someone’s hair to the point of discomfort, because I’m an awkward white dude and that’s kind of what we do. But the idea of just, like, touching a stranger’s hair out of nowhere is just totally…

It’s so fun. Mamie van Doren! Mel Torme as a hood! Paul Anka and Mel Torme getting into a fist fight! 

When! You want! The flavor of bacon in a dip!

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Looks like Trump got all of 12 minutes when he hosted.