I appreciate Shawn Ashmore's tweet. But when I read about this earlier, one of the first things I thought about was that rumor Marvel Comics doesn't want to give 20th Century Fox anything for movie adaptations. I could totally see somebody at Marvel wanting to mess with the filmmakers by taking the ONE guy in the film…

Problem: in the story, Bobby doesn't come out, he's kinda dragged out. Jean Grey, the psychic, goes rooting around in his mind and says, "You're gay," totally ignoring any issues of Bobby's privacy or self-determination. Bobby protests that he's dated girls, and Jean points out that those all ended badly, so…

No, you're right. That part was absolutely hilarious.

No, this one is lousy enough.

Can we rename Weird Al's "Handy" the Song of the Summer instead and be done with Iggy Azalea!

I think it was when Daft Punk were contractually obliged to not appear on the Colbert Report on Aug. 6 and Robin Thicke happened to be sitting in the audience ready to go. It was "A Crushing Disappointment, brought to you by Hyundai." I'm with you, it shoulda been Daft Punk. But then, I'm not going to argue with…

First, the whole thing of "Song of the Summer" feels like an artificial and very new construct. I don't recall a Song of the Summer '94. Or an SoS '95, '96, '97…etc. in fact the earliest Song of the Summer I ever recall was probably "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley (Summer 2006). And THAT was a ubiquitous song. Heck, I just…

Great article, Todd!

"by the turning point of the film, Franz is taking down zombies with that bong."
It's not zombies! It's "Zombie redneck torture family." It's two entirely different things!

The tone deaf polemics aside, I'm not really getting into this show because the characters and their relationships are flatter than pancakes.  I'm kind of aware of the fact that several months have passed in the continuity of the show, but we've seen these characters for about four hours and still don't really know…

The tone deaf polemics aside, I'm not really getting into this show because the characters and their relationships are flatter than pancakes.  I'm kind of aware of the fact that several months have passed in the continuity of the show, but we've seen these characters for about four hours and still don't really know…

I want to be fair to Mr. McGee, but I think his analysis here makes some bad misteps.

I want to be fair to Mr. McGee, but I think his analysis here makes some bad misteps.