I'm a fan of him because I love me some implied rimming (although as I saw someone note on Twitter, we were -this close- to having an Asian top on network TV and then they snatched that subversion of a racial stereotype out from under our noses).

One episode does not really a recalculation make, and there's a whole paragraph about how the 'twist' in the Senator defenestator subplot kind of undermined much of what the episode was trying to say elsewhere about control of women's bodies. I suspect Joshua forewent a deeper analysis of that element because the show…

The film coverage here is so, to borrow from the first sentence of this review, joyless now.

When 30 Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the phenomenal second season of Parks and Recreation aired in the same year? Heck, the first season of Community, too? Yeah, nah, it didn't deserve that either. Modern Family was pretty good in its first season, but let's not concoct some…

Let's not kid ourselves. Modern Family has never deserved to win a single Emmy it has won.

This is an incredible fucking album. Hard to top as album of the year thus far. If there's a musical sensation as joyous as striding down a street while "Queen" plays and death-staring strangers, I've yet to feel it. At once a part of his previous work and separate, and christ does the sad gay teenager in me adore his…

Yeah, but as far as I can remember it rates really well for FX so it'll probably keep going as long as Reed can make it last.

The bummer for me is that I don't think Bob's has really run its course yet. Maybe if this season slows down creatively, but I could see it maintaining that high quality for another two years. Anyway, I'd guess Brooklyn Nine-Nine will end up doing worse than it and it'll go back to 8.30.

Every time I tweet about it the writers favourite it. It's both nice and scary.

I definitely teared up at Gretchen's speech. No shame.

Yeah, I'm curious as to how the viewing experience will differ between those who see Them first then the originals, and vice versa.

Yeah. I think it's probably chiefly for awards season purposes. But Her and Him are only getting limited/VOD releases, so whether or not you wait for them I suppose is subject to their potential availability to you.

McAvoy's friend/co-worker. He features a lot in the Him version, and a little in Her. While his role isn't insignificant, I'm not surprised it wouldn't really factor much into a combined version of the two films.

Yes! There's just something about these films that resonated so deeply with me, to the point where it really distresses me when people dismiss it as some kind of hipster bullshit. This is real, honest-to-god emotion. I get that that scares off some people but damn if it didn't cut to my core.

You're wrong. I haven't seen the cut-together version, but Him and Her are gorgeous and sad; a little like a late-20s/early-30s twist on Amy and Levi in Enlightened. Benson has a similar gift for Mike White's melancholic earnestness that doesn't cloy (though there are plenty of Straight Dude Critics who disagree!!!),…

Iungerich is a great showrunner though, so it has potential to be a really fun show, even if it's not portentous self-designated prestige stuff like True Detective.

RIP :(

Don't you know that any entertainment consumed in the majority by women is inherently lesser? Everyone knows that True Detective is more TV than Sex and the City ever will be, because a horde of men will stomp all over anyone saying otherwise, because while art is subjective, in the minds of these people the level of…

Ah, thank you for keeping tabs on all of that! That's really good to know. Hardcastle's name is very familiar to me - turns out he directed 10 episodes of Suburgatory, which makes sense as that show always looked great. Shakman has a similarly solid resume, from Everwood to It's Always Sunny. I like this pattern a…

This shows in its direction too. It's developing a nicely cinematic style, like a sitcom version of Peter Atencio's work on Key & Peele. The aspect ratio shifts with the gang of hipsters in "Sunday Funday" were such a lovely visual treat on a show which ostensibly has no need to have them. Ditto the editing which is…