I kind of agree.  Frankly, they can review whatever they darn want to review.  By adding the "new to us" part they seem to be looking for a few more things.  Still, I find it hard to be interested in yet another LA based comedy podcast where the host interviews the host of an LA based comedy podcast.  There are great…

Serling's daughter, in the most recent episode of NPR's Snap Judgement, said that every Christmas the family would gather in her father's office and watch "Night of the Meek."

It relies on Christian themes but it is a universal story.  This basic idea appears in many cultures.  In some lands the character
isn't the Devil, he's a Ananzi/Rabbit like trickster (tricksters could
sometimes be malevolent).  Sometimes he's simply Fate or the spirit of a
place.  The theme is that you can contain…

That's exactly what it is, a modern folktale.  Catching the Devil (or making a deal with the Devil) is a common theme
in stories going back to the birth of religion.  It's almost a universal cross cultural understanding that you
can catch the Devil, not for long, and it comes with a price.

Nivens looks just like David Niven.  I didn't pick that up as a kid watching, but now it's among my favorite details in the whole series.

I agree with you about 2666 @avclub-1087e24f05bed232204689eaae45ab9d:disqus .  My first Bolano book was "Distant Star" and I immediately followed it up with "By Night in Chile."  He had a distinct ability to heighten everything in his novels while revealing few details of the actual disturbing events, knowing that…

The best part of the episode was how the group reacted when Mr. Rad called Britta the worst.  Even though they can call her the worst all the time when someone else did all the brainwashing vanished and they turned on him.  It's one of the things that groups who love each other do, and one of the reason anyone who…

To be harsh and blunt - as a pop culture reviewer, you've at minimum mislead the readers with the claim that you watch a week of the show.  At the most, you have failed in your reporting on this week's worth of Letterman.

Who is this Samberg guy?  He one of your TV People?

Did you notice he had some of Columbo's mannerisms too?  I just think it was the costume department having a little fun by tucking in a detail.  I can imagine them reading the skit, going up to the writer and saying "hey, can we dress him a little like Columbo," and Day taking off with that.

Other than the Sienfeld and Dolphin skits they seemed to background Day.  It's another case of having a guest who can really bring it, but not using him enough.  Maybe it was because it was his first time on the show and they couldn't be 100% sure what they would get in front of a live audience.

Correction:  Annie did 2 important things.  The second was providing us the mental image of her in a cone bra.

You gotta think that the NBC folks were getting a tad upset that the ABC show was getting so many mentions as a beloved character's favorite show.

They made themselves half-breeds by marrying people of other Norse backgrounds.

Can we start the "stereotype meter?"   Italian girls are Jersey shore mob.  Asians are earnest nerds.  The black guy is a former cool musician.   Vaguely Eastern European guy is sleazy.  Puerto Ricans are brassy.  Gay guys naturally go to cupcake decorating seminars.

I generally don't get why networks always do this.  The first few episodes of a season are usually planned meticulously to reveal things about characters.  For example, Dull pilot #1 in the first few episodes now has a few character traits, which would have made him slightly less dull in the reshuffled second episode.

I instantly forget almost everything about this show except the clothes and, in this episode only, cars and that hilariously bad CGI rendering of the Monte Carlo landing.

"What You Need' is one of those episodes I unabashedly love.  I can easily pick holes in it, but am happy to go with the "supernatural" explanation.  It conveniently give you an out on most of the plot holes.  Pedott has the ability and knows he must use it sparingly.  There are obviously rules to this that he knows,…

Just be blunt and say they need to get a new show runner.  Michael Patrick King pretty much owned his particular upper crust piece of the 90's, but he has no idea about the situation these women find themselves in.  He's completely out of place in this decade of recession.  Instead he's running the show that plays in…

I think the mistake they make is actually showing the pitch, or parts of it.  Writing any part of it other than the start is an impossible task.  Better to have him start the pitch, cut to commercial, then come back to an ambiguous scene and let the tension build as to if he succeeded or not.