Good Fortune, Mondays at 9.

Well, sure, if you describe the plot, it sounds miserable…

Calling a generation "Generation Y" was even stupider, so I guess it all evens out.

There was an oral history about the 90s Magic on…I want to say Grantland (it may have been somewhere else) a few months ago (back when, you know, Grantland existed). If I remember right, the focus was on their quick rise to prominence and becoming basically faces of the NBA to a lot of people, but never being able to…

Hamilton article! Everybody drink!

Goldmember was a terrible, terrible, terrible movie. Maybe it's just because I was almost exactly the right age for it the first time I saw it, but I will defend The Spy Who Shagged Me forever. It's one of my favorite comedies of all time—it took what worked in the first movie and actually built onto it, before the…

"Coming of age drama" is a genre; Boyhood was a coming of age drama; Boyhood was a genre movie.

The AV Club mentioned Hamilton again! Everybody drink!

The A.V. Club

Early renewal pick: Dr. Ken

Fantastic interview as always—nothing to add except this link to one of my favorite Gilbert Gottfried moments—the "YOU FOOL" sequence from Hollywood Squares:

Drop: Blindspot
Swap: Life In Pieces
Add: Lucifer, My Diet Is Better Than Yours, Of Kings And Prophets, Cooper Barrett's Guide To Surviving Life, The Odd Couple

I can't wait for the next generation. Hopefully whoever's in charge of naming generations will finally realize that the "Duh, they're after the last one, so let's just name them after the letter that comes after the name of the last generation" pattern is, was, and always has been, reductive and stupid and inane. God,…

Geez, even the announcer sounded bored.

Also nominated that year:
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
David O. Russell for The Fighter
David Fincher for The Social Network
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for True Grit

The A.V. Club

As I understand it—and I'm a yank, so I may be a bit off—if something is pants, it's a bit naff.

Counter-counterpoint: this has the potential to be a fun feature, if anyone would take it even moderately seriously.

Ha ha! Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. Now that's comedy!

So, I realize this probably won't happen, for a few reasons, but I'd be remiss if I didn't at least throw it out there: how about an "expert" review and a "novice" review for this show? Not everyone is intimately familiar with the world of Marvel comics, and some of us just learn what's going on by watching the show.…