I feel like I do "get" him, but I can't help agreeing with Bonney that, no matter how self-deprecating and willing to be led he makes his "For You" character on the show, there is an inescapable element of superiority in his position (he's acting, they're reacting) that keeps him from fully sharing the discomfort of…

Also, a hearty shout-out to Mary Elizabeth Ellis, who had almost nothing to do this week but made the most of it. Just by mouthing "sophomore [whatever it was] sleep-over" along with Stewart during his cri de couer, she said everything that needs saying about their marriage.

I think it was the fact that Stewart just wouldn't let it go, and insisted that Todd express the concept in his own words, even as Todd is increasingly desperate to get away and is forced to admit that the damned pronouns are beyond his capacity to navigate. The fifth or sixth time through you're almost sick of…

The first three episodes of a show are rarely the best it has to offer; my advice is to keep watching. Love takes time, Captain Positive.

The kids were grounded not for erasing Ray Donovan but for lying about it. In American childhood, as in American government (which are increasingly indistinguishable), it's always the cover-up, not the crime.

Only because we insisted on watching them on our phones!

Well, hopefully that means he'll be back. He's fun!

It really doesn't help that this couple has even less chemistry than the last interracial couple Heroes tried to introduce. Anybody who believed Niki Sanders and D.L. Hawkins were married (or that Niki was Noah's mother) was certainly trying as hard as they could. I know Zachary Levi is a decent actor, but I do not…

That was a rotten fucking trick this week's episode pulled in the first scene. Having Luke and Joanne kill off a friendly-looking dude as soon as he opens the door is one thing; having his poor dog curl up next to him meant I had to pause the action and sob for a full minute. This show hasn't earned that by a damned…

I've been enjoying it, but I enjoy noisy and quippy. The chaotic-neutral style emphasis on personal goals and the occasional double-cross rather than Truth And Justice continues to be refreshing in a Marvel property, and they've incorporated some of the sort of wackiness you'd expect to see in a cartoon starring a…

Much as I hate to side with Dish Network (a competitor to my employer), the rate negotiation process is fundamentally broken and they are taking the only path available to them to stop the extortion by content providers.

Heroes Stillborn.

Also a Leverage two-parter, where he played a role not unlike his current gig as the mayor on Gotham. But realistically, you look over the guy's IMDb profile and it's an embarrassment of riches, whether you want to talk about the weird stuff, or the people he's worked with, or whatever. 184 acting credits in 30…

Prong's Beg To Differ has cover art by Pushead, who had previously worked on some Metallica T-shirts and other merch I was fond of, so teenaged me decided it was worth dropping 10 bucks on the cassette tape. I remain a fan to this day!

Still, it's hard to beat scenes like the one where Gene Wilder is calmly counting up the checks Mostel has procured during his interlude in "little-old-lady land" and has to educate his partner on basic mathematics:

I imagine they will have him studying to pass the bar as the season goes on, and he seems clever enough to be of use in the meantime. He's not a total buffoon, and his perspective has helped his brother become a better lawyer.

It is not at all uncommon for women to marry men 20 years their senior, and in fact there are many arguments in favor of it. A young woman's healthy eggs and a middle-aged man's healthy bank account are pretty much an ideal circumstance for the raising of children; a 60-year-old man's sex drive is much more in tune…

Half your age plus seven is the rule; a 51-year-old should really find a mature woman who's…32 and a half? Maybe it's not as icky as all that. Or put another way, in four years when he's 55 and she's 34, it's all good.

If the policy is arbitrary, it deserves to be changed the moment someone who wants it changed demonstrates a willingness to make a stink about it. As the lengthy court proceeding could surely have demonstrated, it was unnecessarily burdensome to the employees and provided no countervailing benefit. (Admittedly, any…

That's my favorite part too, how the show acknowledges he has no real standing to be there but everybody just indulges him. And it's believable(-ish) so far because the stakes have been relatively low.