Xena's a great one I always forget was a spinoff. And that one's better than the parent show.

Most effective thumbnail photo to get you to click on a C+ review, though.

Serious actresses like Moore and Swinton are the wrong comparison. She's a lot more like Julia Roberts. Less an actress than a movie star, valuable precisely because of her charisma, just not a lot of range. I still think Roberts is better than Lopez, but how much of that is the higher quality of material Roberts has…

I recently saw Killing Them Softly, and it was hard to remember that this was the same guy who played Henry Hill, until there was a scene where he threw back his head and did that scary Pac Man laugh of his.

Back in the 70s, it used to work all the time. Aside from the ones listed, there's Good Times, Mork & Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, Lous Grant. In the modern era, you have Angel, and the proliferation of Law and Orders, CSI's and NCIS's. While I'm no fan of the last two series families on that list, I don't think the…

Wow. That could be the worst comparison, ever. Both were brilliant, polarizing lawyers, but that's where the comparisons end. Every account I've read suggests that Adams's obnoxiousness came from an aching sincerity. He stuck his neck out for the things he believed, was inflexible once he did so, and he interpreted…

Hey, maybe they can get the "Star Wars Prequels Don't Deserve Your Hate" guy to write "For Your Consideration: It's OK to be Grossed Out by Hanna Horvath's Naked Body," and let the ClickBaitMageddon begin.

It'll definitely have to be option (1)—for this to be entertaining, we're going to have to get caught up enough in the chase/heist aspect of the plot to forget that we already know it succeeds. That's not as hard as it sounds, since there are lots of side interests that can be used to build suspense: Exactly how many…

No, the story was flawed to begin with. It had no stakes, and felt pretty much like a overlong episode for it. The whole plot was a quarrel between two species we've never seen before (and will never see again). Although there was supposed to be "corruption up to the top levels of Starfleet" involved, it never felt…

Well, that was Abrams's pitch to Paramount: that he'd bring the Star Wars to Star Trek. Hopefully, he's better at making Star Wars films than he was at making Star Trek films.

If they just manage to not make this film a retread of Wrath of Khan, they'll come out ahead of the last three Star Trek films…

I think Banshee being older is actually in line with the comics (he's not supposed to be that much younger than Moira and Prof X), but this is a great point. Probably the biggest question about the MCU is how they're going to handle that going forward. Potentially, they have the chance of replacing the current heroes…

I'm really glad that Hank's hieroglyphs weren't alien-influenced. The appearance last episode was a great place to end that subplot.

I fully expected the sleeve-gun to come out at right after Arkin's "mail room" anecdote.

That was such an appropriate end for him. The way he walked into the Gerhardt house and declared himself king, it was as if he forgot what and who he was fighting for.

I wonder if the anticlimax final episode is as valuable with a show where the story won't continue after the season finale. On Mad Men or the Sopranos, the final episode of the season was usually like closing a chapter in a book—reflecting on what just happened, preparing us for what comes next. For a show where there…

I hated the end of season 1 with a passion, so I never bothered with season 2. Was the improvement that definitive?

Yeah, I get that all the anticlimaxes are intentional, and that they're appropriate given the huge blowup last week, but this episode really featured a lot of deflating. It made the quoting from the Coen's ouvre a little annoying. In addition to Betsy's Raising Arizona dream, and the Chigurh-like shootout with Hanzee…

New York has an ambitious attorney general who likes to read his name in the paper, and who apparently isn't afraid of the NFL funding someone to challenge his reelection.

So when he said that killing him wouldn't bring back your honey, he was wrong?