I've found that most podcasts, I can't listen to at work, mainly because it's gotten more difficult to have it on as background noise. I focus on the podcast, and if it's a Bugle ep, I'm just laughing too much to get anything done. I typically listen on commutes or when walking or whatever. The Bugle and Jeff Rubin…

It's a little weird.

Based on your comment, I went and read Ebert's review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Not a funny review, but he basically thinks that the Medea movie would have been better with no Medea in it. I also read his Alex Cross review, where he gave it a 1 star and basically said THAT movie would have been better with Medea…

I don't know if it's entirely a kind of fear keeping "white" critics from really criticizing him. Probably somewhat, but I've kind of thought that maybe critics just never bothered looking for the depth in his movies. I think there are comments to make about the portrayals of gender, stereotypes, etc, but since his…

Could, but would they? If we saturate network TV with sitcoms, they'll probably be derivative and redundant. At best, they'll copy something successful, at worst, they'll poorly copy something successful.

And how much better The Middle has become.

I think my response to the article, especially reading a lot of comments, is twofold: 
One, I'm wondering why network tv should even be "saved", per se? If it's dying, then it's a quality of life issue. Should we leave it a vegetable on life support, or should we just let its suffering end and pull the plug?
Two, the…

But to play it "conservative," at least in the way I read it, means to falling back to the lowest common denominators of TV culture. Find what is cheap and easy to watch… game shows, reality shows, sitcoms… oversaturate the channels with garbage (I would question the quality of these when you will likely have a glut…

Hey, Showtime, learn how to cancel a show!

Jackie Drapers?

She has to pee so bad she can taste it!

I was ridiciously happy that BMO Lost, which now may be one of my fav eps, aired before BMO Noire, which was probably my favorite ep prior to this new one. Red hot like pizza supper.

She's on a boat!

The chair selection scene was marvelous. Tyrion's manhandling of that chair, obnoxious and scraping the floor, showing he would just as soon take the opposite side of the table, where at least he will be face to face with his father.

I like that it was Anne and Mr. K who stole her ashes in the end. Mr K because he is the weirdest guy in the group and most likely to do it, but Anne because she is really the only one in the group who can really understand Ryan's grief since she's the only one who lost her significant other (although Owen's grief…

I like that you singled out Hannibal's comments on the roof collapse. That to me was a VERY revealing comment. One where he wasn't really anaylyzing Will but instead giving Will a peak into his own psyche. I love that it was probably not a slip on Hannibal's part. And the reaction from Will was wonderful.

CSI has pulled off the gross out factor on Thursday nights for over a decade. I don't think Hannibal will have a problem with it.

Totally agree. I remember how it was aired on PBS when the Baseball strike started in 1994 (like a couple of weeks later IIRC). It was weird to watch a show that captures what some people love about the game, to be reminded of that, while the people who get to work and play the game are fighting about money (of which…

You're killin me Smalls!

That's about what I think. Someone gets an idea or premise, then they just let these guys screw around with it. That's basically half the show.