Is that worth catching up on? I bailed mid-season 4 but now enough time has passed that I'm starting to miss it…

Whoops. I mean, yeah, cast Donald Glover in everything but specifically John here…

I don't care how implausibly they justify it but I want more than anything for Donald Glover to show up as Lionel Luthor…

Have you seen recent pictures of Tom Welling? Let's just say Brandon Routh won the aging well competition there.

Dark World is a great 45 minute TV episode if you just skip to the Loki parts and absolutely nothing else.

Best shows you've seen this year that were totally ignored by the Tonys thread? For me, The Play That Goes Wrong (technically I guess it won set design, not that anyone noticed) and Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (fine, which was off Broadway but so much more fun than any of the new shows on Broadway right now).

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Watching these numbers I was reminded why I haven't really felt a whole lot of urgency to see the big shows right now. God they all seem like massive bummers. Probably a coincidence but I feel like there's some serious misreading of the national mood going on.

Space was just so…weird. I looked him up when I heard he was hosting and he got his start in theater so I guess it wasn't the most random thing in the world but everything about him gave off a vibe of "I don't want to be here, you don't want me here, so let's just grit out teeth and get through it together".

Didn't JEB! tweet a picture of a gun during the campaign? (I seem to recall us all thinking that was a gaffe, back then when things mattered.) I assume that's the one that will be used…

Obviously it was hilarious but how dare they promise us Daveed Diggs rapping philosophy and not deliver. I know this show is on Netflix and there's no DVD bonus features but I demand DVD bonus features of him nailing it.

Yeah, I forgave it because it was so hysterical but it did feel like this episode came before the last two, character development-wise. I guess the Mikey thing pulled it together at the end though.

Or just make her adopted. Culturally she identifies with her parents, but biologically she's white. Idk, there's ways around it that they didn't really think through.

Throughout the season I slowly learned to trust this show - there a several places where it seems like there's an obvious cringe-y place they're going to go, and it almost never goes there. It's rather refreshing.

To be fair I think that's more due to David Cross's scheduling conflicts.

I love so much that no one ever points that out. They start out as a one scene gag and quietly take over the entire background of the season.

I guess those how to play straight classes from the first season paid off.

They've spent two seasons showing the lousy parts of gentrification, so now they're turning to the reasons it might be good to try to improve a neighborhood. Honestly I think the "this is how gentrification should go" is a little heavy handed (grocery store dude is not only FROM this neighborhood, but look at how…

That's what's been missing! I've been liking Ricky Whittle but he's been lacking something, and I just realized that part of Shadow's charm in the book is how deadpan he can be. Whittle isn't really getting to play that side of the character, just a lot of anger and confusion.

I can't see a universe where a major network does a live version of Spring Awakening that in any way resembles the original.