This seems like a really bad idea. What's next? Robert Downey Jr. is The Nutty Professor.

I guess I'm just lucky. Haven't come across that.

Is that true? I guess I shouldn't be surprised by any reaction from the right these days, but that seems extra bizarre.

No. Not to my knowledge. My nephew has no superpowers, for example. Though he is super cute.

I also hope the kid doesn't get her underwear at K-Mart.

I'll take Gary Bell from Alphas as a good and positive portrayal of an autistic person.

Autism . . and gingervitis, apparently.

The Middling Dead.

Except Crashing pretty much sucks and Fleabag is pretty good.

I want another season of Patriot.

Why is this show getting coverage? A: Because AV Club is a shell of its former self.

Funner fact: She looked exactly like Leighton Meester.

Meanwhile, on the other new network time travel show, Time After Time: H.G. Wells and his girlfriend, allegedly a historian from 2017, travel back to 1980. The show didn't even correctly identify who the president was at the time, among the several era gaffes it made. It's a really bad show. Occasionally so bad its…

Aw, . . I was hoping the future surprises would be coherent storytelling and good dialogue.

With Eva Longoria as Noxzema.

You'll have to forgive her, she was just lobotomized.

I just realized Rachel Brosnahan was Abby on Manhattan. I rewatched season one of that show recently, . . wow, one of the best single seasons of television I've ever seen. Too bad more people didn't see it. I think it would have fared better if it had debuted in the age of Trump. I'm sad that it didn't get a third…

Amen to the last sentence. I enjoy ASP for the most part. But that revisit of Gilmore Girls was brutal.

I agree with your assessment about the commercials. They made it look atrocious. I will say, it is better than that, though. I think it is getting way too much positive buzz around here, . . but it isn't bad. It certainly has its moments and generates some laughs.

As long as people correctly pronounce mischievous, I'll let most other things slide.