"It’s flashy, overwhelming to the senses, and it drags participants upwards and downwards with mechanical roteness, before dropping them off exactly where they started, with a vague sense that something fun just happened. In other words, a perfect encapsulation of the experience of watching the film."

I'll be that contrarian and say that abc's "Cavemen" was underrated. I watched the premier to review it for one of my college courses, expecting to hate it, but came away pleasantly surprised. I wound up watching it every week until its cancellation (which admittedly wasn't a lot of weeks). Kroll, a virtual unknown…

I've heard him on on commentaries wincing at off-model moments, and can understand where he's coming from, wanting things to look just right, especially when they're based on his work but not drawn by him. That unused "Some Enchanted Evening" footage from season one was particularly horrifying. But in the quest for…

Something I dislike on both modern day Simpsons and MacFarlane shows is the default, pleasantly neutral expressions all the characters display in between between lines. Like, Homer or Peter might say something like "Oh my God! We're gonna lose our house!" and look appropriately anguished while saying it, only to, in…