Flew through the first season a couple weeks ago. It was heavy going at times but there's just enough in it for me to be excited about this season, which by all accounts is better than the last. Following along with the reviews and comment sections here was….interesting.

Well they hung the ending to their season premiere on a lazy reference that feels stale right out the gate, so I don't think it's unfair at all. If it was smart or funny, fair enough, but so much of their writing rests on "hey we know this thing you like exists!" and goes no further than that. And it looks even worse…

Solid gold like that is being saved for season 35, featuring the cast of Empire.

The one thing worse than The Simpsons desperately clinging to current cultural trends (Harlem Shake, Kesha) is when they desperately cling to stuff people have moved on from. And I say that as a fan of Dunham and Girls.

Can't decide if this or Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has my favourite opening theme. So infectious. I love the rest of the show too.

Very cool. I knew he was in There Will Be Blood but didn't know he and Anderson went that far back.

You poppin my stones?

From Magnolia:

The Wire and The Office are two of my favorite shows. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out Amy Ryan is in both, playing characters I loved in both. And then she was in Birdman and I didn't recognise her there either. So I have some weird Amy Ryan blindness.

Stone Cold Steve Austin was around for a while beforehand but he did eventually help save RAW and the World Wrestling Federation in general (along with the increasing ineptness of their competition).

IT DOESN'T EXIST.

Those are the nominees from the year before, which The Hurt Locker won. The King's Speech's year had The Social Network, True Grit, Inception, Black Swan, Toy Story 3, 127 Hours, Winter's Bone, The Fighter, and The Kids Are All Right. I'd put TKS somewhere in the bottom half from that list, but I like it well enough.

Yeah I was doing okay until then, but then that clip just wrecked me. It's such a sweet, silly moment.

Birdman's winning Picture and Director. This year is very much like the 2010 race, when The Social Network was so far ahead up until The King's Speech swept all the guilds. The main difference here is Boyhood won the Bafta, perhaps because Birdman isn't the mix of British and crowd-pleaser that The King's Speech was.…

And in late Season 2, during the Telethon episode, Mark asks someone behind the camera about whether he should propose to Ann live on air.

I especially like how the caretakers allow an alcoholic sexual deviant to hang out in the home and share beds with the elderly residents.

It's a small moment, but Scott's impression of Bruce Springsteen performing Get On Your Boots has made me laugh all week. Definitely my favorite podcast.

Jack Nicholson did in fact say "the Oscar goes to Clint Eastwood!" when announcing Best Picture that year.

I remember tearing up at various points during the first half of the movie and thinking "wow, people are right, this is an incredibly sad movie". Man was I unprepared for the second half.

Broad City has recently taken over HIMYM as my go-to show if I need cheering up. Only problem is there's only 10 episodes (and the webseries, but those episodes are all so short). So I know them all back-to-front by now.