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One nice thing about Dollhouse: It brought Reed Diamond aboard the Whedon troupe of regularly recurring performers. After this he appeared in Much Ado About Nothing and Agents of SHIELD.

For part of a season, WB aired Angel right after Seventh Heaven. I have to imagine that there were at least a few nice, churchgoing families that had no idea Angel was about vampires and just let their kids leave the TV on because if a show's about an angel how could it be inappropriate?

Nobody's mentioned the one where the couple wakes up and finds all of the faceless blue workers building Thursday around them?

There was.

Ellison disowned the episode because he wanted Jack Gilford to play the role Danny Kaye ultimately received.

IIRC, that episode also implied that the guy in the turret was somehow better or more deserving to live than his compatriots - who were moving heaven and earth to try to save him - because he had imagination and they didn't. Even as a weird smart kid who liked to draw, that struck me as awful.

I knew John Ritter was in Bad Santa, and I knew he'd gotten rave reviews for Sling Blade, and Hearts Afire just popped up on Amazon Prime for some reason, and I still until this interview never put together the fact that he and Thornton had worked together a lot.

Don't forget self-righteous and sanctimonious!

Dushku can't really play well outside her tough-chick wheelhouse. She'd have been better served, career-wise, by a series where she did a lot of that instead of a vanity showcase that only showcased her limitations.

Orphan Black is the show Dollhouse wanted to be when it grew up.

I think they try to handwave it by saying he was a descendant or relative of Kennedy's, and thus overcome with emotion about preventing the assassination, but, no, it didn't make much sense if you think about it too much.

The Golan Globus documentary includes a bit that demonstrates how the exact same flying shot was used, with different backgrounds, four or five times in the movie.

I liked the adaptation they did of "To See the Invisible Man." Also a weird JFK assassination episode called "Profile in Silver." The final, syndicated season had an episode by Harlan Ellison called "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" that I loved but remember no details of.

I would pay money to see Key and Peele Meet Frankenstein.

Didn't we just have a Wolfman remake a few years ago?

"The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."

I really hate the "both sides" and "worst election ever" talk for this reason - what's happening is completely asymmetrical. One party had a spirited nomination contest that stayed pretty high-minded and was mostly about policy and ideological differences. That party nominated a smart, experienced candidate who is

Nope.

He was a decent, ordinary person asking a question about policy during a debate that one candidate had dragged into the gutter, urinated on, and set on fire.

JLI or GTFO.