"Modern Love." Come on. This week of all weeks.

Max Weinberg didn't play drums on the song "Born to Run" - that was Ernest "Boom" Carter. Weinberg played on all the other tracks on the record, but not that one. Just sayin'.

That is some sick Paul Evans furniture he has in his house.

You probably had to be living in Boston in the late '90s to have even heard of them, but Star Ghost Dog's "The Great Indoors" holds up shockingly well, and its disco/indie pop mix doesn't seem to have dated much at all in the intervening years.

Miracleman
Anyone else think that Giles's killing Glory by killing Ben was maybe an homage to (or at least very reminiscent of) Miracleman's killing Kid Miracleman by killing Johnny Bates? I've never read anything to suggest that that's what Whedon was specifically inspired by, but it's always struck me as similar…

noah baumbach
"The Squid and the Whale" fucking killed me. Growing up as the child of divorced academic parents in Boston, there were things in that movie that I thought were pretty unique to my experience and turned out not to be. (Jeff Daniels moving into a shitty apartment and trying to justify it…

the ending
I always thought the ending was kind of shockingly cynical: Ronee Blakely gets shot, everyone freaks out, Barbara Harris picks up the mic, and sings "It Don't Worry Me," everyone sings along, and the camera pans up to the sky. (I can't remember if there's a flag in the shot or not.)

Yes.

Akiva Goldsman
Is an unbelievably awful writer for the movies, but the stuff he's done on "Fringe" has been surprisingly good. Silver lining? Probably not.

I like Richard Kelly
It's like he sets out to make Interesting Failures.

Hey, the nosebleeds are like the one thing that they actually DO explain in the movie - it's the result of frontal lobe hemmhoraging caused by whatever Langella's doing to mind-control people. And the weird Santa was, I think, just one of Langella's minions out to stop Marsden and the other guy from getting wherever…

Has Patty done bad things? Sure. (But really, those were mostly just in the first season.) But by "obviously good," I mean that the people making the show seem to want Patty to be a complicated, anti-hero like Tony Soprano, Don Draper, or Walter White, but they also set things up in a pretty black-and-white sort…

not as much fun as it should be
The first season was awesome, pulpy, and the maybe most purely entertaining non-Whedon show I've ever seen. The second season - with the charisma-powerhouse team of Danson and Ivanek replaced by grumbling, cartoonishly evil Bad Guys, and Rose Byrne dropping half her body weight and…

High time
Nice to see the Killers get some respect here. (If not, you know, in the comments section.)

After the Sunset
I got no particular love for Brett Ratner, but I stand by "After the Sunset" - solid, funny, clever (if, you know, not even a little plausible), and one of the few movies where what seems like it was really fun to make is also actually really fun to watch. Way underrated.

over before it started
There was no way that Stefan was gonna win, given how much Colicchio seemed to just despise him. Probably it was Stefan's arrogance and complacency last week on returning to New Orleans, but you could just tell in pretty much every scene that Tom hated the guy and it was going to either Carla…

That was just kind of the way it went back in the '80s, if you wanted your work published by Marvel or DC, and you can't really fault Moore and Gibbons for signing what was, at the time, a really generous contract, creator's-rights-wise. Would they do it that way now? Hells now. But given that it was the mid-'80s,…

The Boston Metropolitan Area
Has there ever been a show that's given as much attention to a metropolitan area as "Fringe" does Boston's? A really big part of why I like watching the show is the shout-outs to Allston, Framingham, Watertown, Salem, Brighton (Olivia lives on the same street as I used to!), etc. (Why…

Seemed like the biggest issue with Jaime's dish vs. Leah's wasn't so much much about concept vs. execution but edible vs. inedible. Hard to give the victory to someone whose food couldn't be eaten, regardless of how poorly conceived someone else's dish might have been. Especially this late in the game.

toby young
At least he didn't say he wanted to fuck any of the fish on display tonight. That alone counts as a (small) step up from previous appearances.