It got REALLY good when the focus shifted from Frank to Bill, like an inverted Simpsons.

Punk is youthful idealism applied to the realities of adult life; I can hardly think of anything more positive.

Am I the only one who's waiting around for John Brown movie? And subsequent "white savior" controversey?

I keep sitting around waiting for revivalist noise rock to become fashionable again. Every few years 1 or 2 bands make it seem like it could happen, but it just doesn't seem to take.

Shot is at least somewhat underrated. Not all of the mellower stuff works, but what does is just weird and creepy as hell. And Yow's subtler vocal approach, while still being all kinds of intense and fucked-up for a major-label band, matches the more "mature"/traditional (or whatever) material quite well. Give it…

Not like it's impossible to find media from the same time period that isn't blatantly hateful. Nope. EVERYTHING was like this.

Is everybody suddenly acting shocked that a movie whose iconic imagery consists of a naked lady's backside repurposed as a hand flashing the peace sign displays a disrespectful attitude towards women? Geez, that shit might as well be a Spinal Tap album cover.

I remember feeling stupefied that this film, this masterpiece from such a titan of cinema, this countercultural classic, staged its big triumphal feelgood sequence as… a goddamn football game? So a sports victory during wartime (with a glossed-over racial exploitation aspect) is what passes for subversive?
Those dudes…

Iron & Wine but no Fire & Stomp? That's a hard pass.

"Drunk people trying to read" is one of the best descriptions of karaoke I've ever seen.

Sally first became interesting in s4 of Mad Men (and Jesus Christ, Kiernan Shipka was only TEN years old when they were shooting that), but the show had sort of moved its focus away from her by the time of the final season.

I don't remember where I first heard that one of the J's is ex-CIA, but it blows my mind again every time. What a cool career transition.

I actually find Alison Wright weirdly sexy. And her character seems like she'd be a blast to hang out with, for a hard-working FBI colleague.

I assume the California DJ song is the song she wrote "Angel Mom" (a song about hearing one of her own songs on the radio on her birthday) about. Which is a stunningly beautiful song. Her style does have a strangely witchy, almost childlike quality to it while still sounding very modern, a totally unique and…

I fucking love Jesca Hoop

I find her hotter than ever now. I never cared for her old ingénue/girl-next-door persona.

Oh hey Todd. Nice to see you here again. Good luck with the things.

Amelie just unceremoniously bailing on her MSCL reviews with like 4 episodes left was some real amateur-hour shit.

Real life IS magic — not in the supernatural/metaphysical sense, but in the misdirect/bullshit/illusion sense.

This is fucking awesome, filled with fantastic insights into what makes this show so great. I haven't been to Vox much — do they regularly run content that's this detailed and interesting?
Sometimes I think I could be a writer or a showrunner on a scripted series, then I learn more about what the reality of it is like…