I never thought I'd type this sentence, but Gene Simmons kind of has a point. Sterling's comments were in private, in his home, with another person recording them without his permission. They were also disgusting, but I'm not sure I'm down with firing people for comments they make in the privacy of their own home, no…

I never thought I'd type this sentence, but Gene Simmons kind of has a point. Sterling's comments were in private, in his home, with another person recording them without his permission. They were also disgusting, but I'm not sure I'm down with firing people for comments they make in the privacy of their own home, no…

I never thought I'd type this sentence, but Gene Simmons kind of has a point. Sterling's comments were in private, in his home, with another person recording them without his permission. They were also disgusting, but I'm not sure I'm down with firing people for comments they make in the privacy of their own home, no…

I never thought I'd type this sentence, but Gene Simmons kind of has a point. Sterling's comments were in private, in his home, with another person recording them without his permission. They were also disgusting, but I'm not sure I'm down with firing people for comments they make in the privacy of their own home, no…

I never thought I'd type this sentence, but Gene Simmons kind of has a point. Sterling's comments were in private, in his home, with another person recording them without his permission. They were also disgusting, but I'm not sure I'm down with firing people for comments they make in the privacy of their own home, no…

I never thought I'd type this sentence, but Gene Simmons kind of has a point. Sterling's comments were in private, in his home, with another person recording them without his permission. They were also disgusting, but I'm not sure I'm down with firing people for comments they make in the privacy of their own home, no…

I never thought I'd type this sentence, but Gene Simmons kind of has a point. Sterling's comments were in private, in his home, with another person recording them without his permission. They were also disgusting, but I'm not sure I'm down with firing people for comments they make in the privacy of their own home, no…

I can't speak for dirtside, but I feel like I have the same problem to an extent, and it's a mixture of both that collateral damage and just general Simpsons fatigue.

I definitely don't think CGI takes less craftsmanship. But I think as others have suggested, it's harder to buy into CGI. The point has been made that practical effects can also be shitty and fake-looking, which is true, but I do still find that a subpar puppet is more convincing to me than an above-average CGI effect…

If anything, that almost makes me wonder if there was some work McGruder did that was scrapped, or ultimately re-written. The Boondocks was always plagued with loooooong production delays (I remember assuming it would be back the fall after the first season, and then it ended up being two years, supposedly due to…

Also, it was definitely well known by that point that the CIA had provided Bigelow and the film's producers with access to a lot of information (whether accurate or not) that hadn't even been seen by anyone else, and Bigelow was making the press rounds talking about how "important" the film was and how it wasn't just…

What Shma and others have said. But also, I do have to ask: for those of us who care about habeus corpus/fair trial, indefinite detention, surveillance, continued war in the middle east, further escalation of the military industrial complex, assassination lists, terroristic drone policy, etc etc, what other choice was…

You can watch it for free on AMC's website, too (for a certain amount of time, I think a month). I definitely agree, on-air ratings are a lot less indicative these days. Most people watching it now probably started on Netflix or whatever.

(I haven't really watched in forever, but) I would assume that the older flash-forwards didn't actually follow any sort of continuity between each other; as our reviewer said, they always used to use some kind of "out" (e.g. a fortune teller who can't REALLY disappear, or seemingly actually predict anything) to…

Yeah, I feel exactly this way. Daily Show/Colbert Report excepted, I can't think of any late night/talk shows I care about at all, and every "good" Letterman replacement suggestion I saw just made me wince, because I want every comedian I like to continue doing awesome stuff far, far away from CBS.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're correct. It came out much later that he had almost left in 2002, or rather would have if Letterman had jumped, and was really hurt and disappointed when that didn't transpire. But I think he's also supposedly since said that in retrospect he's better off where he is, and the rise in his…

Blues Brothers 2000 has been on mine for quite some time. Throw in Airplane II as well.

I know you're kidding, but in fairness, there was probably some contractual clause requiring that he return for the sequel. The guy who played Jon even said in some interview that Garfield 2 had the dubious distinction of being the one film he's ever been contractually obligated to do without really choosing to, and…

It's almost a certainty, actually.

I really hate the ubiquity of that myth, too. Especially because it leads to people casually dismissing the first couple years as "the Bart years," and season 2 especially is so good and doesn't deserve its completely unearned reputation as a weaker, catchphrase-driven show.