What I've found really interesting from the Black Mirror: White Christmas press blitz is the fact that the show's got a big cult following amongst actors, trade journalists, producers, etc in LA.

I haven't felt like this since Andy Lippincott died.

I'm pretty sure that a big reason why Koenig stuck with the case this long is that Adnan was scheduled for an appeal before they started recording and putting the podcast together. She has mentioned that having a clear conclusion was really important when it came to the question of whether or not to do Serial like…

So I hauled out my copy of the retrospective. Here's what I learned:

I don't even really shoot that often but it was like an itch in my pedantic asshole of a brain.

Trudeau's always made a point of stressing that Zonker's actually a good caregiver, at least according to Trudeau's ideas about parenting. There were at least two sundays where he breaks the fourth wall to preach about parenting. One was about TV, I think, and one was about parents being too into smart phones and not…

I haven't read the strips where Jeff's a kid in years, so I might be misremembering.

That's not a footlocker. That's an ammo box. Probably modeled after the M19A1 ammo can.

Well, for me the main thing is for Jeff and Joanie's relationship is: how many strips are there where Joanie and Jeff are together? There aren't a ton. She's someone who knows how to be a good parent and honestly tries, but it's telling that she's got tighter relationships, and more strips, with Lacey and Alice than…

Well yeah. I mean, self-assured tech geek with a warm and loving (but occasionally patronizing) relationship with their significant other? They're very, very similar characters at this point.

Joanie and Rick are awful parents, and neglected to really raise Jeff because they were more focused on their (admittedly important, high-pressure) careers. There were a lot of jokes about that back when Jeff was a baby, particularly about Rick overstating his involvement in his terrible column.

It's because it's secretly a soap, and it moves in real time. The two give it a sort of longevity because things have to change over time.

Yeah, I've never thought his interviews were any good. Way too many of them are sloppy, slobbery knob-jobs like his interview with Nathan Myhrvold.

The interview section might suffer, that's true, but to be honest I've never though Colbert's interviews were all that good.

It's more like saying that Letterman could pull off Carson way back when. There's nothing in Colbert's wheelhouse that's especially above and beyond. It's just that we've gotten used to Letterman and Leno being profoundly bored and disengaged.

To be honest I'm really looking forward to it. His schtick has basically been bog-standard late night talk show stuff anyway.

Ah, but while Joel was funnier, Pearl was better than Forrester and Frank.

Maybe I need to give it another shot, but I remember feeling kind of put off by the constant feeling I was missing gags.

Actually it's been one of the running theories this whole series, mostly based on the fact that her dad most closely maps to Mr. Hyde.

I always feel like a lot of the comedy is lost in translation— I mean I get why some of it can be funny. I can laugh at Bakuman because like a lot of people I spent my adolescence neck deep in terrrible battle manga and it gets a lot of mileage out of that, but I always get the impression that comedy manga lean hard…