I'm not going to make my defense yet again—All I can say is that it is possible to disagree reasonably with conventional wisdom and that my assertion relies in part on the conditional phrase "than most people realize" (which is a softening of the more strident tone I've taken on this in the past). But I do think that…

Guess I missed it.

Netflix
I don't like the idea of Netflix playing neo-Blockbuster gatekeeper with what will and will not be available, but it's not as if there aren't other ways to get it. I think the more upsetting issue is, with the rise of on-demand as the primary model of distribution for film, why is anything uncontested out of…

Monster of the Week
For reasons less interesting or political than most people assume, I didn't own a television from the time I went to college in 90 to the time I moved in with my exwife in 2000. I did occasionally watch TV at friends' houses and made it a point to catch things like 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Simpsons'…

This could go on forever, but the best version of 'Grapevine' is Gladys Knight and the Pips':

I will always remember the photo in Newsweek of Henson and the Disney execs when he sold interest to them in the late 80's—Eisner and his lackeys are all in smart, expensive Navy blue power suits with intimidating red ties and there's a bearded Henson in a bright blue suit with broad green stripes looking like they…

Virginia Madsen was quite the looker in that film, but she was no Kasi Lemmons.

'X-files' could be genuinely frightening even to the level of movies but telelvision has typically been hamstrung at Horror by its own "G" rating. The exceptions only prove the rule—But I will say that three have been two TV movies that hold their own as Horror—one is the well known 'Trilogy of Terror' whose third…

Peggy brought it up.

No monoculture
The intro reminded me—I recently participated in a beginning of the year "ice breaker" with my teacher colleagues where we were divided up into groups according to the decade during which we graduated from high school and then tried to describe the pop-culture/current events that were on our minds in…

No monoculture
The intro reminded me—I recently participated in a beginning of the year "ice breaker" with my teacher colleagues where we were divided up into groups according to the decade during which we graduated from high school and then tried to describe the pop-culture/current events that were on our minds in…

In the context of the show Greg is no worse than most of the other men we've seen (see also Pete). I think the hate is because we resent what we feel was "our" Joan's having settled for him. Given the show's tendency to reveal surprising depth and contradiction within the personalities of its characters—pissing us off…

It could be any one of those—but I stand by the assertion that the reason Megan would even know about the Whiskey in '65 would be Rivers. Anybody else would not have any recognition beyond the strip.

I'm no economist, but I was under the impression that Don cleared enough over the sale of the old firm to be free of money worries for a long time. Not that he would just walk away, but in fact he probably can. Lane's an interesting case because what we know of him is filtered through what we can say about the British…

I don't buy that Glen was not at least in part intentionally creepy—the way that storyline unfolded was too similar to the Grampa Gene fakeout to be a coincidence. In both cases we are presented with a Sally who we fear will be victimized in some way by a character who has given us just enough off kilter justification…

I'm one of those "Faye is clearly Jewish" people—but I admit that I have a more finely tuned "Jewdar" than most. The evidence though, is there for anyone who cares to look into it—Her neighborhood, the nature of her family's criminal ties in the era of her upbringing (candy shop, restaurant supply), her education and…

I was just kidding—but if you want to get technical, Dr. Miller would not have been Mafia at any rate. It's like a brand name—Hers is more like Manischewitz.

The shameful truth is that Ken just doesn't play golf.

"those people"

YAY!!! Thanks for that.