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Barnaby Jonesin
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Did CDs kill someone parents recently? What's with all the throbbing hate-ons for the compact disc?

We're living in a world of #PeakMonarch

Jesus, I guess I'm officially an old man. I, ah, still buy CDs and listen to them in my car and in my stereo at home. The main reason being, I have a gigantic collection of jazz that I like listening to, and there is no fucking way I'm going to shell out to replace it with vinyl

…Goddamnit.

I thought their friendship probably had something to do with DeMunn's departure, but I appreciate the confirmation. It's just a damn shame they never really filled that void. Though, I did hear they brought Morgan back…

Booger as the Metatron kept me around for a while, but you didn't miss much.

Dale, The Walking Dead. Jeffery DeMunn was a warm, soulful presence on a show that was a long, dark slide into grim despair. But Dale was great: A beacon of light amid all the throat slitting and depressive monologues. He was a way to reel Rick back in before he lost his mind. Then, for no real good reason, they

….Didn't Sheriff Rum Raisin get viciously murdered last season?

An album played with grandpas guitars? Grandpas guitars are for pussies and grandpas, and I think you know it.

So, is Wiig playing more of the Spengler role? Interesting move. I pegged her for the Venkmann role. That said, if that means McKinnon is both the techie *and* the smartass, I'll be watching this for her character alone. Also, because Kate McKinnon is fucking awesome.

It's insane how attractive she is, particularly (for some reason) in those ludicrous climbing classes

It's my favorite of his. Funny, bizarre, and then very quickly dark and insane.

Well…shit. Nice save!

Want to feel old? It was even earlier: Summer of '98 on ABC. The ads made a big deal of it being produced by Barry Sonnenfeld, I seem to remember. But I'm with you: I always look for it, and am always disappointed. If I can find entire episodes of fucking Johnny Bago online, I don't see why Maximum Bob should prove to

The best turn in the entire franchise was the little-played Rogue, which was a game built entirely around the premise that the Assassins were hypocritical shitheels who, to quote Samuel L. Jackson in A Time To Kill, deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell.

As did I! Even barrelled through the second season pretty quickly but S3, Je-sus, it was like being slowly drowned in a bucket of motor oil.

I could not, for life of me, finish Season 3. Did anyone else have that problem? Every time I try to get back into this show, to catch up, I get about three episodes into that goddamn season and shut down.

As a die hard Joe R. Landsdale fan (and someone who loves Elmore Leonard) I cannot goddamn wait for this show. It looks like a winning combination of "Justified" and my late, lamented, and little watched "Maximum Bob."

I, for one, goddamn love Andrew Lincoln's strangled American accent. It's the choking-on-a-chicken-bone-but-never-quite-dying approach to vocal work, and it lends his every scene a fun, "Will he swallow his tongue?" tension.

I used to watch this religiously with my dad growing up. At first I didn't like it — with all the haughty, unearned pretension a precocious 8th grader could muster, I considered it "lowbrow trash" and questioned how my dad could watch it. But after a while I finally sat down and watched one with him, and it clicked: