Your mom is right about the accent (though where to place the accent is actually a fraught issue in Hebrew; the Ashkenazi and Sepharadic traditions are different, and modern Hebrew takes its cue from the latter; but you still get orthodox Ashkenazi communities where the accent is placed at the beginning of the word…

I'd say that both Legion and Fargo are shows that have learned from Twin Peaks how to do weirdness while still having a solid foundation of plot to rest on. Which, you know, is not a bad thing, but I respect TP's commitment to pure weirdness, and its ability to embrace it without completely falling apart.

In case anyone was wondering, Ray Wise's Hebrew pronunciation is on-point. As in, he almost certainly has some familiarity with the language, because there's no way he could get it so right by learning it phonetically. Possibly from Hebrew school, since most of the stuff he was saying was Bible quotes.

The implication I took from that, by the way, was that Hawnzee saw them as potential recruits, and that's how they ended up getting into the hitman game.

I'm shocked, shocked to discover that Donald Trump's children are just as vile and self-absorbed as he is.

I watched the two-hour premier last night, after catching up with the show and Fire Walk With Me over the weekend and the beginning of this week. I'm not surprised it's doing badly. The new episodes are just as deliberately weird and opaque as the originals, with only a minimum of fanservice (apparently Lynch filmed…

I am not Sandra Bullock in any of her movies, which obviously makes me very sad.

My neighbor's cat has been coming into my apartment through my living room window. I don't mind, for the most part - she's very friendly - but she really does seem to think that I'm her person now, which means constantly demanding to be petted and paid attention to. I thought cats were supposed to be aloof?

Is this normal? I can't remember a recent year where networks swapped around their fall schedules after announcing them.

Phil Coulson.

Having finished the second season of Twin Peaks, I watched Fire Walk With Me last night. It does a good job of capturing the tone of the (good parts) of the show, though it also suffers from the predictable prequel problem of having to come up with a plot interesting enough to justify a movie but not so important…

Civil War left Black Widow in a perfect position for a solo movie. Marvel failing to capitalize on that is a reminder that there is no amount of money that Hollywood won't leave on the table if taking it would involve treating women (and POC) like actual people.

I imagine that the terrorists not having guns also played an important role in how quickly the incident was brought to an end. Not only were the people they attacked able to defend themselves more easily, with bar stools and beer glasses, but from what I've read it only took armed police about ten minutes to…

The CGI in Josie gets stuck in a doorknob is surprisingly good for 1991, but creates the definite impression that that entire plot point only happened because someone wanted to test out their nifty new effects package.

This weekend I watched most of Twin Peaks - I'm five episode from the end of the second season, and then I have Fire Walk With Me. It's not the first time I've watched the show, but definitely the first time I've watched it all the way through - from my rather hazy recollections, it looks like I did watch most of the…

Having people laugh at your name during your Nobel prize lecture is a totally legitimate reason for going evil. I am now a Professor Poopypants stan.

I stopped watching at the end of S2, but even then the amount of patronizing behavior towards Caitlin (and, of course, Iris) was excruciating. I particularly remember the episode after Caitlin (seemingly) loses her second lover in the space of two years, and Cisco spends the entire episode policing her behavior…

Oh, but you see, pulling out of the accord sticks it to those uppity, conceited liberals who keep prattling on about wanting dry land under their grandchildren's feet! And isn't that, in the end, what Trump was elected to do?

It's honestly stunning to be that we've had a Luke episode and a Nick episode, but not a Moira episode, and barely even a mention of June's mother.

How many episodes are left in the season? Because it feels like there are a lot of ongoing stories that are still stuck in their first act - mainly the Fillmore Graves stuff - while we're suddenly piling on several new plotlines, such as Major's new friend, or the potential Russian assassination of this week's…