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Pat Sajak, if Pat Sajak kind of wanted to fight you all the time?

This was the worst of Steven Universe's 53 episodes by a huge margin. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, but that's pretty faint praise. I admit that I was skeptical going in, but it didn't really do much to win me over. I'm really not a fan of "ELL OH ELL SOOOOOO RANDOM" as a humor mode, and a comedy-focused

The Hercules animated series holds up far better than it has any right to.

I hope that Black-ish doesn't become a show that makes a strong, compelling thesis statement in its pilot and then sort of forgets about it. I certainly don't expect every episode - or even most episodes - to foreground modern black cultural identity as strongly or from as many angles as the pilot did, but I was

As somebody who was there a few years after the character would have been, it makes nothing but absolute sense that Ben Wyatt is a Carleton College grad.

B. It felt like a not-better retread of stuff the show has done before, and both Pierce's death and Troy's reason for departure felt lame. Not BAD per se, but I expect better from Community. "Uh, Troy can go on a boat, I guess" feels like the first thing they came up with, with the intent to write in something better

It feels like the show is heavy on leaning on the talking heads to unspool exposition or (worse) to reiterate what's already pretty clear, and doesn't get the same comedic milage out of them that some shows do, especially P&R. The Office used them effectively to let the characters speak unfiltered, and P&R's quick