"in what passes for the Futurama mythology"

I saw Stevie Jackson play in New York recently.  It was a fine show, but also an almost comically sad affair.  First off, while I was interested in the show and my girlfriend was damn near ecstatic, we were waiting in line behind a couple of guys who apparently had no idea what they were in line to see and debated…

Thank you so much for writing this. I'm an unabashed fan of this movie - I saw it three times in theaters and defend it whenever I have the chance. It's the most poetic of the Superman films, possibly of any superhero/comic films, and it was unafraid to make Superman's humanity and fallibility the central conflict.…

Count me out of the near-universe of derision.  I was completely mesmerized by the film when I saw it in theaters, and I think it holds up among Lynch's best.  Those who think it doesn't wrap up the Twin Peaks story are thinking too linearly, in my opinion.  The film brought closure to Laura Palmer, while…

It may be pushing a bias, but I'll argue it's a bias more in line with the recurring themes and tone of the show overall.  First, a little light BDSM is a far cry from the zombie threesome that Tina imagined (and Tina is barely older than nine herself), and it's also the case in real life that many sexual proclivities…

I think you may be misreading the Louise in this episode.  I think the manifestation of Louise's first crush to slap Boo Boo in the face is less a “pushing your crush down on the playground” approach than it was something a little deeper and darker.  Coming from a show that didn't hesitate to give Tina a zombie…

I'm hoping there's a point at which the positive reviews this season aren't written through gritted teeth.  "I guess, it's okay. I laughed, I cried, it was well acted and the story was solid … ugh, sigh, FINE, I'll give it a 'B+'.  Happy???"

The best of the fourth season?  That's especially hard to buy after last week's episode, which I thought belonged among the show's very best of all time.  Even the "Next week on" gag made better use of the puppets in my opinion.

This is why I could never review episodes like they do here — as soon as I caught the scene in which Schmidt, annoyed that a room full of people who I don't believe have ever met him before don't recognize him immediately, says "Who do you think? Gérard Depardieu?  It's Schmidt!", I would've said "A+!" and ended the…

This movie could, theoretically, have some value for whatever PhD student out there right now is writing a dissertation on why the most powerful country on the planet (perhaps ever in human history?) is perpetually convinced that it'll be taken down by some pipsqueak with a slingshot.  "Goliath Paranoia Syndrome"?

Jonathan Breakfast.

Yes!  Thank you!

Before the second season of Twin Peaks began airing. ABC released a 30- minute special summing up the first season, charting out the characters and their relationships to each other, and highlighting some of the more prominent theories of who killed Laura Palmer. It was pretty cheesy, but I watched a VHS recording of…

I used to love the hell out of that X-Men series, but then I missed a few episodes and when I tried to pick it up again, there was no hope of catching up.  The rule in the writer's room must have been that they had to capture a year's worth of comic book continuity between every two commercial breaks. 

Wow, it's about time someone finally stood up and spoke for EVERYONE.

This was the most "Louie"-esque the show has ever been.  If AVC hasn't done this already (and it sounds exactly like something they would've already done), they should do an Inventory of episodes like this from non-anthology TV shows that could function as stand-alone short films.

Were the jokes about burly truck drivers secretly being crossdressing fetishists really that much fresher than the "old, old" gay panic jokes Todd complained about in “The Wind Cries Mary”?  That was actually the part I thought was the most tired in this episode.  It just didn't seem like Archer had much to add to a…

Caaaat Paaartay

That first DVD movie felt more to me like a "love letter" to the fans.  Just my opinion, but I was willing to go along with tweaking the Seymour story because they went so far to give us a rewarding ending that moved the overarching story forward.  Then, after showing the lengths to which Fry would try to get together…

I don't know, I like it when shows reward their viewers by developing characters that we care about and paying off long-term storylines.  Yeah, they had an episode based around Napster, but they also dropped hints in the very first episode that Nibbler deliberately sent Fry into the future to save the universe from…