It never did quite gel as a show. Like, The Soup works because the writers and McHale seem to be both genuinely fascinated and repulsed by what they come across, and it can be really merciless. Wheaton didn't have that edge.

The entirety of Kiss' Music From The Elder. Odyssey in particular- it's basically van art in song form, but damn if the music isn't beautiful.

Isn't it also a placeholder lyric? The Beatles have a lot of those and they often turn out pretty interesting.

I've been playing this a lot too- haven't been tempted to buy anything yet, though, so I'm willing to give it a pass as freemium stuff goes.

That's true if you're aiming for a laugh-a-minute comedy, but I'm thinking more of stuff like the Firesign Theater's albums or some of SCTV's longer-form pieces where they'll sometimes forego quick jokes in favor of just exploring the premise.

To me it makes sense that Hollywood would go after someone who has a certain nostalgia value (she was Buttercup!) but isn't so big that they'd want to retain control of their image. Like, "Your best years are past- why don't you sign with us and live forever?"

The selection of Robin Wright makes total sense to me. She's an actress who had a couple of big successes in the past but never quite made it to the A-list, and of course is now at the dreaded age where there are no good parts left, so the offer would be attractive- whereas the same offer would not be so interesting…

Isn't that absurdism, though? Working with a comic premise but not focusing on jokes?

So much Simpsons. Looking forward to being able to watch on demand, though.

I'm actually gonna side with her on this. How hard is it to accurately censor things on a pre-taped show?

Eva Green needs to play Modesty Blaise sometime.

Finally got around to watching Frozen, which was really cute and had some nice little twists. Also, Idina Menzel's voice is just heavenly.

Great write-up!

Yeah, she's definitely giving the material more than it deserves.

Community's pilot is decent TV but a ways out from what the show itself would be.

Frasier has a good one, and Cheers itself is pretty memorable (the "World's Sweatiest Movie" debate sets the tone right away.)

One of my favorite gags:

It's remarkable that, even suffering depression all this time, he managed to give the world so much. A great talent. No qualifiers.

Finally saw Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. It's not quite as well focused as Rise, and some of the human drama is pretty slow going (the lead human is really bland), but everything with the apes ruled and that's really what this is all about so a good movie overall.

Funnily enough the guy who wrote the theme for Rick & Morty pointed to Doctor Who as an influence (along with Farscape)- it has that same "Ooh, mysterious journey to DANGER ahead" feeling.