I think that there is a reason Parker and Stone didn't want his score for Team America. Shaiman seemed fine in the South Park movie, but I don't think the songs in Smash are all that great and the score is just not good at all.

What's going on with the Angel season 5 coverage?

This is a weird one for me. Up until the finale, I loved season 4. But the finale killed so much of my goodwill that it makes it hard for me to call 4 the best season, or the show as a whole a great show, that I have to give it to season 3 despite falling off after New Caprica.

I agree. I thought the final two sketches (The movie theater and the pants-pooping) were hysterical, and liked all the other ones as well.

I don't know about favourite episode, but the scene with Ritter and Siskel could well be my favourite moment of the show (right up there with Hank sleeping one off on the Seinfeld set, or Jim Carrey in the final episode).

I'm not gripped by the musical numbers, but I'm having so much fun cracking jokes at the expense of the show that I don't really care. Perhaps Smash could become The Cape for people who like old musicals.

Watch this?
Watch this?
How could I watch this?
How could this be any good?

I like Luck, but the main thing that is holding me back at this stage is the editing. To me, it seems pointless, forgoing spatial awareness and simply jumping around for no reason at all (I think there might have been a line cross in the scene with Ace talking about the casino, and one later on when the gamblers are…

My favourite gag in the episode is the various cariacatures, particularly the Francis Ford Coppola one. "This movie needs a strong female lead, like my daughter Sophia."

I thought that back in the 1930's that Broadway worked as more of a farm system for the studios in many ways, with the studios hiring the best performers/writers/composers from Broadway, despite the fact that most of these people largely wanted to be in the theatre and did the movies purely for money.

No, they are separate episodes (Robin doesn't appear until season 8), and the conversation appears in "Paint Your Office". One thing that has struck me watching through the show on DVD (I'm on season 11 now, which is making me think about call-backs) is that Cheers is very good at making call-backs to continuity that…

It's especially interesting with Vera because we are able to have both the fictional version that Norm creates for the benefit of cracking wise (the comedy wife, as Chris Rock puts it) and the real Vera as she is described by Norm and the other characters in the few times she is involved in a sub-plot.

Yeah, I really should have stopped to think before writing anything. I instantly thought about the cinematic techniques that Cheers used to make the character work (carefully placed camera so we don't see his face throughout the whole episode, which to me feels contrived, and generally editing around him), but it is a…

In addition to thinking it a weak point of the episode as a whole, I also don't think that invisible Derek is a theatrical technique, as it is something that has been at play in sitcoms for a long time (I'm pretty sure it was used before Cheers, but I'm not very knowledgeable about older sitcoms), and is a technique…

Yeah, Season 6 has a lot of low points.

Oh, what a beautiful mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day
I got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way

That Tekken movie was just awful. The game may not have had anything resembling a great story to frame the fights, but it worked well enough. The film slapped together a series of fight movie and post-apocalypse cliches and was shot and choreographed poorly to boot, with none of the fighters moving like they do in the…

Not to mention sheet music, because some of the prices for modern sheet music are exorbitant.

I really wish Burton had put the Ballad of Sweeney Todd on the credits or something, seems like such a waste.

A Passage for Trumpet is one of my favourites so far. The word Serling uses to describe the story is "poignant" in his segment at the end of the previous episode, and I think that it describes the episode with great accuracy. I especially liked the little scene with Gabriel, and the silhouetted figures in the Jazz…