Thank you for reminding me that MIchael Showalter is the only other person who’s aged as badly as I have

Perkins is one of the weirdest and most inconsistent reviewers/recappers. I honestly can’t predict what he’s going to say about a given SNL episode which is not the case which most recappers and their shows. All I know is it’s often completely opposed to what I thought

Yeah you got me. That’s exactly it.

So Good Place viewers love to point out off-hand statements by Jason that end up revealing some deeper truth. There was an interesting one in this episode that I’m surprised no one has mentioned: “It goes green green green red. Just wait for it to start again” (referring to the “best self” analyzer). Now, the…

Happy Endings

I know people LOVE using that term but I can’t risk being pedantic here and aruing that this wasn’t REALLY a bottle episode. I get what you’re saying. It took place mostly in one place, didn’t move the plot forward a lot, and was talky. But my understanding was that the original use of the term “bottle episode” had to…

For me the dividing line is whether the limitations of the challenge are so difficult as to make it nearly impossible to actually produce good food. Miraculously it seems like they were still able to do some good food with this one, as excessive as it seemed to me as a non-camping anti-nature city person. An example…

I mean clearly it’s pretty obvious. I could see a pitch for the Good Place being “The Prisoner but a half hour comedy” or something like that.

These kinds of things pretty much actually happened during the height of the lynching era in the US (like roughlythe 1920s through 1950s) so it’s pretty much in keeping with the general idea of mutants being a stand-in for various minorities and oppressed peoples

I think the idea is to show the endless conflict between the Strucker kids being powerful mutants and still being “just kids”. In most X-Men/mutant fiction you get a bit of this but the younger mutants grow up quickly and take to their new mutant family as being their real family because their biological family has…

Bizarre that you would say this about Dillahunt as he’s almost exclusively known for playing villains (other than the one exception you bring up)

I thought this was the strongest episode so far as well. Back to the frenetic pace, good action sequences, good jokes, and some real forward development on the various plots. Also, Debi Mazar is a great addition to the cast and the idea that she’s part of a “Mob Wives” type reality show is hilarious and a great…

Wow this series ended up being really uneven and not what I expected at all. It was definitely of a piece with a lot of Rogen and his writing partner’s work in being kind of all over the place and could probably use some editing. I thought it was going to be a really light time traveling comedy in the vein of like…

I was a terrible cokehead for like three and a half years and I’ve truly never understood the “Having coke blown into your asshole” thing and whether it’s something that’s ever actually done or if it’s just an urban legend. What’s the point? Would the coke actually get into your bloodstream?

I know! I always described this show as having the same set up as a porn

Yeah it seems quite bizarre that Eric Thurm didn’t mention that this part of the episode was an homage to Top Gun, at least in passing. Maybe he felt it was such an obvious reference it didn’t need to be pointed out?

Yeah it seems quite bizarre that Eric Thurm didn’t mention that this part of the episode was an homage to Top Gun, at least in passing. Maybe he felt it was such an obvious reference it didn’t need to be pointed out?

Yeah it seems quite bizarre that Eric Thurm didn’t mention that this part of the episode was an homage to Top Gun, at least in passing. Maybe he felt it was such an obvious reference it didn’t need to be pointed out?

Yeah it seems quite bizarre that Eric Thurm didn’t mention that this part of the episode was an homage to Top Gun, at least in passing. Maybe he felt it was such an obvious reference it didn’t need to be pointed out?

Tom Collichio, along with Jose Andres, has firmly established himself as the leader of the liberal wing of the celebrity chef world. As a leftist and a socialist I of course wish he could push things further but I think Tom is doing a good job in his role and I honestly think this episode of Top Chef is one of the…