Brother Robert, actually, which is like the exact inverse of Jeff being Brother Nero.

Writing WOT for the last couple years has left me in a distinctly Broken condition.

I had no opinion of Mark Henry before watching that video just a minute ago, but now I want him to be Universal Champion forever.

Nah man, I'm totally retiring.
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Totally.

MUCH LIKE BEATING UP JOHN CENA, WRITING GREAT REVIEWS IS JUST WHAT I DO.

That's exactly what they're there for!

Hi beema, what's up?

Yeah, let's just let Morgan Freeman cook, no questions asked!

Combination of (a) I was more thinking of aliens than, like, non-aliens, I guess, and (b) I haven't seen Apocalypse, so it didn't occur to me.

I mean, I totally am, but I think there's still room to say that a show attempting to deal with trans issues — even if it ends up doing so badly/imperfectly/stupidly — represents something more vital than another show about people being just sorta vaguely fed up with where their lives are going. I don't have a strong…

And now you're reminding me of why I ultimatley didn't use economic status as a descriptor, because not all these shows technically fit if we're using "well-off" as the common factor. This I suppose is why I did settle on ennui, because it suggests a bunch of shows where people never seem to have anything more serious…

Transparent at least feels like it's about something a little more vital than just well-off people having problems, even if that is a pretty big part of its overall deal.

Oh yeah, "well-off people with problems" is exactly it. I kinda hate those shows on principle, because I'm every bit the whinging lefty socialist stereotype you'd think I am.

It got a 13-episode order for season 3, so I'm guessing it's coming back midseason?

Throw in Flaked and that's both of Will Arnett's Netflix shows. Possibly Love as well, though that may be more in Girls territory, which is kinda its own separate (though related!) subgenre.

You don't have to be tired of anything! But, off the top of my head (and keeping in mind that I very literally don't actually know what the fuck I'm talking about, as I don't watch these shows), I'd say Togetherness, You're The Worst, and maybe Married to go along with Casual. There's a few others that are maybe…

Even allowing for Halt And Catch Fire's return, tonight was pretty bleak. Even the one-off stuff was just… kinda… there.

Gary Johnson isn't bad at all!

I suspect anything for which they don't have lots of footage would be close to a non-starter, so I suspect Ghosts of Ole Miss is, if not the *exact* cutoff line, then damn close to it.

They've fudged things a bit — Ghosts of Ole Miss goes all the way back to the early 1960s, for instance — but I believe all the 30 For 30s have been set during what we could plausibly call "in living memory." I'm not sure the 1930s would quite count as that anymore.