I have a confession to make. I had been avoiding 'Girls' all this time and only tuned in because of all the hype over the finale. But goddamn I could relate to what I saw! I am really sorry now that I neglected the series. I spent my 20s either in working class white Boston neighborhoods or working class white Chelsea…

I recall I used a converter box & my old rabbit ears with my analog TV for maybe 3 years after the big switch-over. Finally buying the fancy new antenna didn't help things much.

What's that old saying? Even whores once had a mother.

A young woman hitching her wagon to the lunatic fringe right - what did she think was going to happen? Look at all those female workers harassed and assaulted over at Fox News. Its not just women. Remember how the Libertarians joined forces with the Tea Party 4 years ago? At the convention they were eaten alive by the…

The "I hate musicals" people usually are also the constant earbuds people and surround-sound in the car people. What's the difference between Rebecca imagining a Niki Minja song about Thanksgiving and you blasting Steppenwolf in the car on the way to the hardware store?

The death knell for shows like this is a lack of self-aware humor. 'Riverdale', to give an example, is downright torrid in its plots but it winks at the audience, letting them know they're in on the joke. Grey's Anatomy showed a degree of self-awareness in the early years. It knew it was 1/3rd rom com, 2/3rds doctor…

I assume the review header is a semi-obscure reference to the 1986 Kurt Russell film "Big Trouble in Little China"

Have you ever been channel surfing and you hit on an action/superhero flick, then after watching for a bit you're still not sure if you'd seen it before or not? The Wonder Woman films looks kind'a interesting, this film here looks generic.

I'm not a fan of the color palette for this film, judging from the promo. More graphite grey sets and black skies, like they took a color film, turned it black and white, then colorized it again.

Amelia is an object lesson. Don't marry a needy junkie, even if they're a clean junkie. Its amazing the only person on this show to visit a psychiatrist for their 'issues' has been Meredith. Did April visit a shrink? I can't recall.

What Woo brought to American cinema, which often gets overlooked, is Asian cinema's unironic sentimentality. The cop pining for his family, the bad guy's love for his brother, the pathos was palpable. American films are less sentimental and more angst-ridden. We're all about grim irony in films here in the USA. As…

One gets the impression that films like this are more palatable to critics if they're in French, set in the grubbier parts of Paris or some rundown French seaside resort. Malick should have provided subtitles, though the dialogue's in English.

I shudder to think what sort of advertisements and messages Red states are bombarded with that the normal states do not see.

In the middle years of the series the episode quality would fluctuate up and down like a sine wave. You'd sit through the bad episodes confident the show would give you a stretch of good ones. Then Rhimes went on to other projects and the number of good episodes got fewer and farther between. That's been 6 years now.

I can think of another show where between the pilot and… episode 8 half the cast had gained 10 pounds.

The previous week (what I saw of it) involved one couple sort'a resolving issues, which was pretty nice. This week we're back to the bicker-fest again. The rules of the rom com (what Greys started as) are the couple bickers & feuds then eventually realizes the other is 'the one', Harry-met-Sally style. Greys has…

Predictable cops you mean.

Maybe during a sex scene they'll swap out the over-loud musical score with Rachel Bloom singing her 'Period Sex" comedy song.

I recall one film maker complaining the MPAA demanded they limit the 'sexytime' onscreen to just 3 pelvic thrusts or else they're going to give them the distribution-killer NC-17 rating. In one particularly grotesque "Nymphomania" scene they superimposed giant numbers "1", "2", "3" counting the thrusts, possibly as a…

Back at the start of the Supergirl season Superman showed up for a few episodes. For a moment all the sturm und drang of the series gave way to the characters just having fun. If nothing else it works as a palate cleanser before returning once again to superhero angstville.