I for one loved the back-and-forth between Campbell and Raimi about the tools of Ash's trade. Of course, it's totally unnecessary since Ash just spills the beans less than five minutes later, but those two make a great comic duo, and nobody sells those Vaudeville-style routines better than Bruce Campbell.

The Friends comparison Michael makes is actually perfect when you stop to think about it. Ross was the neurotic catastrophizer and Phoebe was the free-spirited source of chaos. And I think I read a Slate article that obsessively catalogued the show and discovered that Ross/Phoebe was the least-used pairing.

TV By The Numbers has it as a toss-up for renewal through 3 weeks. (Behind Lethal Weapon, a likely renewal — which is a bit of a surprise to me, albeit a pleasant one.)

I want more Amelia too, but it's only episode 4 and it looks like this series is heading into big-cast territory, which means it probably is about time for her to take a turn on the back burner with only 46 minutes a week to spread around.

Thank god this was how you found out.

Ka-caine!

My reaction was much the same, but from the opposite standpoint — the source material for these stories does not depict Harlem in anything like this sort of realistic, thoughtful, and loving detail. "World-building" is absolutely the right word to establish the fact that these writers are showing you a living,…

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If simple facts are the dumbest things you've ever read you may need to do a little more reading: http://www.huffingtonpost.c…

In my book, you shouldn't disapprove of weed being used in any context where you wouldn't disapprove of alcohol being used. That one is illegal and the other is a cherished part of our culture is more or less an openly acknowledged tool of white supremacy, as opposed to a meaningful moral or medical distinction in…

Twin Peaks theme song, and shades of The Warriors. That's what I hear.

A weekly variety show created under enormous time pressure with a limited budget and two dozen comedic voices that don't all work and play well together is often less interesting than a show following a normal development process where sketches are written and rehearsed by a small group of writers and actors who have…

Tell 'em about the Twinkie.

Just say Fatxl Rose and have done already.

Jon Polito's my choice for Bighetti Sr. The way he walks around being totally clueless yet totally trusting that everybody is looking out for him, Big Head is clearly the baby of a large family, so I think his dad has to be older than Cannavale.

When you asked him to delete a file, he ripped it up with his little claws. And he would rub up against the screen when he finished a task, wanting to be pet. Adorable.

Lest we forget, the compression platform is already a pivot from Richard's original vision of a searchable music database — he accidentally invented a revolutionary compression process (and then re-invented it on the fly during TechCrunch) while trying to do something with music, which is why it's called Pied Piper…

The one-step rule to becoming your office's "tech expert":

I think it might be the difference between Office Space and King of the Hill. OS hits the same satirical beats about workplace drudgery over and over again, and the characters are really just vehicles to get you from plot point to plot point. But you don't really mind, because it only lasts 90 minutes or so. KITH had…

Not sure what my brain was doing there. Raviga.