Living on those simple bare necessities of life.

Yes, the original animated Alice in Wonderland. If anything, the godawful Burton remake actually made me avoid it for the last several years. But it is time to finally block Burton's version from mind and see what the deal is.

Funny you should mention Disney along with this question; my fiance and I are currently two movies (Snow White and Pinocchio) into a planned 49-movie Disney marathon, everything from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Big Hero 6. Some of them I've seen plenty of times (Aladdin, Lion King, Little Mermaid most notably),…

This is the way the director's commentaries for a lot of slightly older (pre-DVD era) films go. It has nothing to do with the filmmaker's talent either, I've heard some great directors give some hilariously flat, inert, strictly descriptive commentaries.

As long as network TV has Hannibal, Bob's Burgers, and the CW's DC Comics shows, I'm cool with it existing. But it commands less and less of my attention every year.

Essentially just ten hours of Damon Lindelof masturbating on camera.

The Americans, Girls, House of Cards, The Leftovers. (And while they were both good, I thought True Detective and Fargo were both fairly overrated and neither are worthy of the end-of-the-year acclaim they're about to get drowned in over the next month.)

The cancellation of Supernatural coverage makes no sense to me. It was pulling in over 100 comments a review.

Yeah, I had to take a break from all things Patton Oswalt for a while (except his guest spots on TV shows I watch, anyway, which is unavoidable) because the internet was making me so sick of him I was worried it would affect my love of Ratatouille, which definitely wouldn't do since it's pretty close to my favorite…

Me too! Community, 30 Rock, The Office, and Parks and Rec - 2 hours of comedy goodness. True park-my-ass-in-front-of-the-TV weekly event programming for me.

One of them DID get renewed, mind-bogglingly enough: Extant.

I'm not claiming it was The Wire or some shit, but it managed to pull off an exploration of PTSD and post-war malaise that neither dipped into treacle/preachiness nor treated its subject matter so lightly it lost its impact. They balanced successfully on a razor-thin line in that regard. It's the only network sitcom…

Plenty of bad stuff here, but, in terms of network shows that debuted this year, I feel like Stalker, Mixology and Manhattan Love Story only really scratch the surface. There was also:

Sorry, but no way in hell is Selfie's cancellation a bigger waste of potential than Enlisted's cancellation. Enlisted had enough to say and enough talent in its cast and writing staff for a solid three or four seasons. Selfie did not. The only consolation for Enlisted's cancellation is that I'm looking forward to…

Biggest dropoff in quality after a really fun and promising pilot, I would definitely say. I agreed with AV Club's A- (I think?) grade for the pilot. By the midseason finale I was pretty much hatewatching.

Balfe does as good a job selling it as I'd imagine anyone could, but I still wish they'd cut it back by 40-60%. Some of it is amazingly inane recapping of exactly what we're looking at, like a DVD commentary track by an unprepared director who hasn't seen his movie in a decade.

I feel embarrassingly relieved to learn I'm not the only one who feels this way. Seems like everywhere I looked on the internet S2 was getting the exact same hype/praise level as S1, and I started to feel like I was taking crazy pills.

Scorpion is bad, but in a completely benign, inoffensive way that makes it blend invisibly into the white noise of network TV procedural land. It's the kind of show that, when it's announced that it's ending in 2020, most people will be like "What the hell? I thought that ended years ago?" (Versus, say, The Following,…

There could be a special alternate category just for shows that suffered mightily after their showrunners leaving/being ejected. The fourth season of MTV's Awkward has also been a sad shadow of the previous three seasons.

Yet, like The Sound of Music Live last year, I assure you its ratings will be fantastic, and NBC will keep churnin' live musicals on out, much to the delight of Twitter snarkers everywhere.