And while you can argue that Monk was a dramedy, calling Psych anything other than a comedy is a stretch. It sort of has crimes, yeah, but so does Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

I was so delighted when "Mark" suddenly materialized in the middle of that episode.

Louis C.K. though.

The narration is fine. It's the fact that none of what actually happened was inspiring that was the problem.

P to the OTUS

It's from streaming services, most notably Spotify.

It's definitely super weird, but it looks purposefully weird. It looks right in its weirdness.

"But it’s amazing what a difference a desk makes."

The Shanghai extraction is probably the best in 3. And even though the twist should probably be obvious, Hoffman and Cruise really sell that scene from the flash-forward cold open.

E- E- E- E- EMU ATTACK!
EMU ATTACK!
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

His Adapted Screenplay comments are pretty disheartening for anyone who wants to see comedy acknowledged at these things, though it's nothing we didn't already know.

I was glad to see Brie Larson get a shout out in the article. She was great.

I liked Lincoln a lot when it was being a period piece West Wing episode with a killer cast, but oof that ending. Ugh.

I have a feeling the Hollywood folks that make up the Academy are the kind of people who will want to look the other way on that. I mean, if Roman Polanski continues to pull a wide range of actors to his projects, they're not gonna "punish" Blanchett for associating with Woody.

Gene Rayburn: My valley was so green, my neighbor thought it was a blank.

I think Todd is only talking about (serialized?) dramas, because if you expand it out to comedies then "second-season curse" becomes even less of a thing. The first season of a multi-season comedy being the best is limited to a few weird outliers.

I found it amusing because I was listening to Firewall & Iceberg while browsing the front page and saw this article title right as Dan and Alan were pointing out how several FX shows' second seasons are their best.

"The illuminati have sought to conceal the identity of Andy's mom! You all have been deceived!" - Jesse Ventura

I was actually kind of grateful to see this here, because I'd seen it linked on Facebook through one of those super linkbaity intermediate sites but refused to give the click to a website which hyped this mildly amusing but frivolous theory with "Find out here who she REALLY is! We've been fooled all along."

Neighborhood serial killer doesn't pay very well. You have to really be passionate about it.