I have to say, I appreciated the dead crowd — especially the near-total silence as Big Show was speaking. I don't mean to rag on the guy, he's a fine performer, but the attention on him and his cohort is just throttling the rest of the roster. Booing, what it's all usually met with, can be taken for heat; silence,…

"Cue Pernell sprinting around town to prevent K.D. from killing Josh—only K.D. won’t answer his phone!" Knowing nothing about this show beyond what's been in these reviews—I keep meaning and failing to find the time to watch any of it—this is giving me uncomfortable flashbacks to SoA…

"Marville does not have the stuff that makes for top-selling comics, but it does explore the origin and meaning of life…" Okay, I have to read this now. That quote makes Jemas sound like the Vince McMahon of comics.

I honestly don't think McMahon or Dunn care enough about what smarks think for Eva Marie's push to be anything but intended. Her very presence on NXT has to be by executive order, if the quality of women's wrestling up to this point is anything to go by. The most mystifying thing about the company's support of her is…

"Yo dawg I heard you like comments, so I put a comment about your comment so you can comment before you comment!"

Officially stealing "Guernica of ______" for everyday conversation.

You know, Hannibal bugged me at times with its way it relied on atmosphere and nightmare logic to paper over wonky narrative—enough so that I stopped watching about a season and a half in. Mr. Robot I couldn't even start getting into, for all I wanted to like it. Felt like the style covered no substance at all.

I'd recommend it. It's definitely light fare as shows go—and it earns the Real World comparisons it got in the early going—and it requires you to suspend quite a bit of disbelief, but it's acted and shot with such assurance that it ends up being very watchable. (The first season even reminded me of The Shield at…

I don't think it's quite as aggressive or unwelcome a push as Reigns's was. But it seems pretty typical for the company—promoting legacy over talent that developed more organically. Frustrating that Sasha has to languish because of it. And frustrating that even when she hasn't yet been pinned or submitted, we haven't…

My memories of the show are kind of dim by this point, but I remember liking even season 3. It was seeing how badly Sutter was fucking up the Jax-Clay storyline in early season 4 that felt like a turn. He'd set up the blows Jax would come to with Clay so masterfully, then just refused to pull the trigger, and after…

Yeah, watching that relationship sour was pretty uncomfortable—especially since Sepinwall’s criticism of the show in its later seasons was as deserved as the praise he gave it in the early going.

I've always found it sad that the Undertaker's only reward for being so loyal to Vince McMahon is to have his career end in the painful shitshow we're seeing now.

Happy for Bayley, but very nervous for Sasha. If what they've done so far is any indication, I don't think the main roster will use her well, at all, ever.

And yeah, I have to say—"one-time Dr. Dre punching bag" was kind of a sour note in this Newswire, for all I know it wasn't intended that way. You could just as easily say "journalist Dee Barnes."

Man. Makes it even sadder that Barnes was basically frozen out of hip hop journalism after Dre attacked her.

Ugh. I didn't think it was possible for me to respect Syfy less, but there you go.

Man, I can practically hear the reviewer tearing her hair out, reading that third paragraph.

It was a surreal feeling seeing Frederick Exley's name pop up in the stories on the front page of Yahoo! News—which I think of, probably unfairly, as pretty lowbrow: http://news.yahoo.com/frank…

It'd be kinda nice if they could get a better title than Videosyncrazy, though.

This comment made me realize how much I miss seeing John Hawkes and Timothy Olyphant on screen together. I'll be quietly hoping for that from here forward.