Well, as critic-proof shows go, this is about as good as you're going to get. It sounds boring, insane (as in guy who you'll cross the street not to get yelled at as opposed to movie-insane), vaguely evil and really, really whiny. I admire their ability to get it on the air, even though everyone involved should be…

It's like cola. Of all the flavors in the universe, cola is the most popular for soft drinks. Why? Because that's how soft drinks evolved, and generation after generation is raised on it. The x-camera laugh-track idea is an evolution of theater and vaudeville, and we accept it as the norm primarily because we've all…

Hate to be "that guy", but this really doesn't sound like a B+ review. I've read a lot of Magary's stuff on the web and he can be really funny, but this review makes it seem like a good core idea that isn't supported or properly examined and then devolves into action-cliche.

"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."

"Romanticized" is more often just a way for low-energy hipsters to fail to be cool without having to actually expend energy. It's one thing when it really was awesome and they just stopped making it (like Tart N Tinys, sour cream & onion Doritos or Quirst), but when you just grab something (like 8-tracks) just because…

I'm sure I have some broken walkmen in a box somewhere, but I really wouldn't know where to go to play this. I'm not even sure my parents still have a cassette player.

This sounds more like C- than B+; dull situation, leads people like mostly because they liked them in other (much older) things, and the best things that are said are that some of the relationship beats feel real (well, for a sitcom). Massive retooling is always a very bad sign, Arnett and Rudolph are kind of…

Sonic Youth may be the Jesus of hipsters, but punk? I guess it's how you define it. Still, this sounds like pretty much every part except the Sonic Youth parts are interesting, but of course that means it's mostly about them. Which I guess would be kinda punk, if it weren't so predictably calculated.

This one seems like the too-much-CGI version of countless movies where the director has a specific, incredibly personal idea they want to convey without making the slightest effort to meet any other human halfway. Usually this stuff is about people's childhood, or perhaps their formative years in boarding school -…

So is it Sair-say or Kerr-say for the queen?

“a photo gallery of early images”
This gives me mental images of a 6am hungover Rand puking into a pay toilet. But maybe it's just me.

Bigger sunglasses mean bigger drama!

I've considered it. It would be going in 9 runs down and two strikes against, but hey, it's TV so it's not like it's expected to change my life or anything. Ignore the sweaty fandom and comical hyperbole, and maybe it could just be light and funny?

Nestor Carbonell seems like it has some vowels missing, like they had most of a name, couldn't agree on the finished form, and just said "fuck it, names are all stupid these days anyway."

So is this her fast-tempo "wake up and pay attention" stuff or the ethereal snooze-fest of most of Actor? She seems likable (whatever the hell that means), but too much of her output is contemplative glorified elevator music for insomniacs.

I dunno; does this sound like an improvement over a 2-hour shot of a jar of mayonnaise? No, it does not. It's still possible to fail at failing without succeeding.

Relentlessly?

But don't women and old people and teenagers fill up the malls buying most of our consumer shit? I know ad people love white men 18-49 because, well, that's what they see themselves as, but do they really spend all the money? They need white men to appeal to white men, but do the numbers actually bear out that white…

" Seleucid Empire"? Oh come on; that's clearly a made-up name, probably from some anime. They'd be like fish-people with tentacles.

Saturday Night Fever. Saw it at the drive in with my parents at the age of 8, and when, later, the PG version was put out, I got to brag about how I saw the *real* one, with the rapes and what-not, even though at the time I was so sleepy that I pretty much didn't remember any of it.