“Libertarian” has pretty much always just been a code word for “otherwise garden-variety Republican who likes to smoke weed.”

Personally, I can’t untangle myself from Jay Sherman.

As good as Clone Wars and, to a lesser extent, Rebels could be at their best, let’s not confuse that for them redeeming the prequels. They prove that it’s possible to tell good stories set during that era, and to tell them well, but the fact that Filioni did that doesn’t change the fact that Lucas still very much did…

That’s certainly reasonable; the larger IP mine certainly seems to be in its diminishing-returns stage. The original series definitely has a continued life of its own, though, and I’d say is pretty firmly in the “timeless with the target audience” category.

“It feels like audiences have moved past this franchise and the only reason it gets mentioned anymore is when clickbait media wants a piece on Rowling’s awfulness.”

Invincible, the 2006 Mark Wahlberg movie about the real-life NFL player Vince Papale, a 30-year-old substitute teacher and part-time bartender who earned a spot on the Philadelphia Eagles at a 1976 public tryout after not having played organized football since high school, I imagine.

Take that shouldn’t, but may very well be, hot: The people who think Die Hard is a Christmas movie don’t really like Die Hard so much as they like the idea of thumbing their noses at the idea of Christmas movies as exclusively non-violent, family-friendly fare. What is the defining characteristic of a Christmas movie,…

Just to clarify (because the show doesn’t make it especially clear), Red Auerbach is not the Celtics’ head coach. He left the bench for the front office after the 1965-’66 season. At the time we’re currently at in the series, he was the Celtics’ general manager.

There is potentially a racial component to this that they have to pretend to be taking seriously...

Indeed I was.

“Need to work D’Arcy Carden in there somewhere”

“House Of The Dragon seems to have wildly varying ideas of what a 14-year-old looks like.”

I don’t know that a series drastically improving between its first and second seasons — which Parks & Rec absolutely did — qualifies as a “television miracle” in and of itself. Plenty of shows have done that, and for the most part, the great seasons of those shows (Parks & Rec included, IMO) don’t feel like a…

Has there ever been a television miracle as awe-inspiring as the transformation of LoT from what it was in the pilot into a series that could give us “Beebo, the God of War” and “Romeo v. Juliet: Dawn of Justness?” I say no. At its best, LoT might have been my favorite non-HBO series ever. Not gonna lie; I don’t think…

The most boring documentary short ever nominated is probably several orders of magnitude more entertaining than the best-ever awards-show comedy bit.

Randy is lucky it wasn’t “Bruce LaPangolin’s Playhouse.” I would’ve stuffed that little bastard into a wood chipper by the end of the first episode.

“I would describe Harry Potter’s cultural significance as waning.”

I’ve always thought that Ultron is easily the scariest villain Marvel has, so if this whole series has been nothing more than the MCU trying to give him a story befitting that status, I’m okay with that.

Is it just me, or do the constant “... and everyone and everything was completely screwed” endings not jibe with anyone else’s memories of the What If...? comics? I seem to remember most of the ones I read having tragedies as the starting point, and the endings being some variation on “No matter how different things…

Sometimes it also benefits their own story arc and lets them show their own agency! Things can do more than one thing at a time!