I know some people love Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars, but I've never understood why. I've always found it a turgid, cliched mess that's so beholden to 2001: A Space Odyssey, it forgets to find something of its own to say. Still, the scene where Tim Robbins and Connie Nielsen dance to Van Halen in zero-g is…

Okay, I watch Castle and enjoy it, but the heavy episodes are always the worst ones. This one had its good moments, but during the whole Beckett PTSD interlude at home, with her hair down, she looked like nothing more than a model pretending to have a breakdown. I don't even blame Katic—the whole conception/direction…

That was kind of my impression of her and why I've never picked her up, but it was always just an assumption. Good to have it confirmed. Then again, I made the mistake of reading a book by Kristin Hannah this year b/c someone gushed about it. There's no way on earth Picoult could be worse than Hannah. Her book was a…

I've never read anything by her. Are the points the reviewer makes about the movie applicable to her books in general?

Eli's SON Marissa?

Nasim Pedrad remains adorable dancing in the Les Jeunes de Paris sketch.

Nope, as bad as Outsourced was, I'd still take it over Whitney. Though, strangely, I'm watching Whitney more regularly than I did Outsourced. I'll chalk it up to Whitney's train wreck factor (both the star and the show).

Norm and Vera are married but spend most of the season separated. That's how they get back together.

It's odd how the show managed for once to offer a scene that was genuinely funny yet still, overall, remain so completely itself: tone-deaf and embarrassingly written and acted. A year ago, I would never have guessed that NBC could find a show for the post-Office time slot that might actually make you miss Outsourced.

Sure, I'd buy that as part of the problem, but I'd still say the writing itself has become worse. Back in season three, for instance, they moved to Jim to the other branch and let that play out for quite a while. It was a decision with long-term ramifications. But the last several seasons, the writers have been afraid…

Agreed. Team Darryl. It's way too reductive to say the loss of Rosebud is supposed to explain Charles Foster Kane's entire personality.

It's not that The Office so much misses Michael Schur onscreen as Mose; it's that it misses him behind the scenes. The Office used to develop characters and over-arching plots logically and organically while managing to be very funny. Then Schur left, and I'd argue the drop-off was noticeable fairly quickly. Lo and…

Yeah, but just wait until the next "real" Van Halen record comes out, with David Lee Roth barely able to sing anymore (not that he ever truly had a great voice), no Michael Anthony to sing harmony, Wolfgang on bass, and, since they're apparently out of ideas, all the songs just reworked demos from their glory years. I…

Yeah, but his last album "I Am What I Am" was pretty damn good. Even if he does sing, "I believe Jesus is God / And a pig is just ham" in the title song.

I believe the proper initial comment was supposed to be, "There's only one way to rock."

I'd go with "Let Him Run Wild," but then I love that song.

Wouldn't it have been a little more clever if, instead of Batman, Castle had said he wanted to be Green Lantern? I'm of course using the word "clever" here in its loosest sense, but still.

The Chronicles of Young Doctor Who . . . what, you mean no one else is looking forward to when that's inevitably created?

Well, she did say she'd been staying in her dad's cabin for the past two months. So that explains the tan. Just not any of the other stupid shit the show pulls.

I always dug that video. I even used it a few years ago as a way to introduce the idea of postmodernism to a theater full of college students.