TONIGHT, THANK GOD IT'S THEM INSTEAD OF YOUUUUUUUUU

Mel Torme, of all people, wrote the best Christmas song, and Vince Guaraldi's oeuvre is not far behind with his Charlie Brown suite.

I will listen to this song a billion times and allow it to liquefy my brain completely before I will ever want to hear "The Christmas Shoes," "The Nightengale," or any number of other "new classic Christmas songs" of that ilk again.

I'm definitely getting older so my emotions come out far more easily than they used to, but I got a lump in my throat when I saw Kara standing in the convenience store trying to talk down the looter, and then they cut to her hand shaking from pain and fear. That was a moment.

He doesn't have a right to be angry about it at all. He has a right to have hurt feelings but nothing in his relationship with Kara equates to any level of possession that justifies any sort of righteous indignation.

The big reveal coming up is that Winn is actually the supervillain P'hrynn Z'onn'd.

I guess so… I was proceeding on the assumption that he was trying to say Gosling's intensity was praiseworthy rather than simply habitual. My mistake.

I don't know, I spent a lot of time living in Mexico in the early 1990s and thus got to see the wonderously campy classic telenovelas like "Muchachitas," "Alcanzar Una Estrella," "La Picara Sonadora," and "Mi Pequena Soledad" first-hand. Given the tone and production values of these shows, over-the-top campiness,…

Melissa is an embodiment of the old trope where an aloof and dismissive person looks their gift horse in the mouth, but when they lose it they suddenly discover a desire to have it again and mistake that possessiveness for love.

Love this show. Only thing they didn't do in this episode is reveal that Carol was born on Dec. 25th which is why she's so manic about Christmas (and why her name's Carol).

Horatio "Sands"? "Wonted" intensity? I'm hoping this was your autocorrect horking on "Sanz" and "vaunted" and not the disturbing trend of proofing fails I've seen around here lately.

I'm still waiting for Black Panther to take off the mask and reveal it was Emma Stone the whole time.

I told my wife, "He's totally going to bone her on Mitch's corpse," and then when they started, she screamed, "OH MY GOD, HE'S ACTUALLY DOING IT."

I haven't seen as much of Natalie Morales as others around here have (I'm limited to my exposure to her in Parks and Rec and The Grinder) but I think the whole detached, snarky, irony-besotted character is her go-to vibe.

Rake Grinder having sex with Avery on top of his brother's cold corpse was simultaneously the most horrifying and hilarious moment I've seen on TV in many years - maybe even my lifetime.

We never forget Olyphants.

…and then head for DAESH for the superfecta? Man, I've got a lot of therapy to look forward to.

John Wayne shot first in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Does Lucas not watch movies?

When they went to the side-view I thought she had actually unhinged her jaw. That is some damn fine method acting.

The whole "Mormons can't drink Coke" thing is largely a fabrication. Some ultra-orthodox Mormons interpret the Word of Wisdom to mean that "strong drinks" includes cola, but believe me, only a very small subset of Mormons actually believe that.