With LOST, I think people were more responding to the final season than the final episode.

The Seinfeld finale is an interesting misfire. The trial sequence especially is basically trying to be Camus’ “The Stranger”, which makes sense for a show which already has a big existential streak, and it has some moments. Mostly the finale doesn’t work because it’s more interested in trying something than it is in…

Agree on Seinfeld. They knew a finale was expected of them, but something like that was counter to the entire “show about nothing” and lack of character development concepts. Its entire genius was taking observational humor about recognizable subjects to absurd levels, and weaving A, B and C plot lines together in…

I agree, 100%! Not perfect but at least interesting therefore, not bad. 

Yeah, the idea of putting Seinfeld as number two between Dexter and How I Met Your Mother doesn’t sit right.

I don’t know who you mean, but I love having that debate. Done it several times elsewhere. There’s a certain truth in the argument that Gen-X Contrarianism represented by South Park (and Bill Maher, etc) contributed heavily to the increase in political cynicism we are seeing play out now.

I mean, “be careful of who you go into business with” probably applies even more so for “shitty businessman”, but yeah, this article is silly.

So if Weinstein were a really nice guy, completely fair and ethical, never assaulted anybody, was a really crappy business man who lost all TWC’s money, had to declare bankruptcy, then sold off the company, how would these stars be any better off? Because the way I understand it, it’s the bankruptcy that gets…

I feel we could make more emphatic that the problem here is the harassment and the threats, how some of the women were underage, and the fact that D’Elia doesn’t address those facets head on. And that the problem is NOT that he sought sex with adult fans, or that he did so with frequency. (If he is a sex addict, that…

White women’s tears is the most dangerous substance on earth; that shit will get you killed without having been anywhere near it.

Heroes:  Our Polar Bear Was Racism The Entire Time

Hey William, you might want to reread the original piece. Leonard very clearly names Ali Larter before he begins referring to her as his co-star.

You’re calling Colm Meaney a fucking Brit? It may have taken almost 7 years, but an Irishman is here to say NO HE IS NOT. 

I may have the timing slightly off, but I think in 1995 Dana Carvey Show, Mr. Show and The State were all doing more interesting sketch comedy.

I remember finding Will Ferrell especially grating, more so than other cast members, when he debuted on SNL, but I became a fan at about the same pace as everyone else: if not by the cowbell sketch, then by Old School. His schtick has gotten a little old at this point, but Anchorman and Ricky Bobby were really, really…

If I’ve ever seen Get of the Shed, I don’t remember.  I just watched it now, it’s freaking hilarious.

Get Off the Shed actually has something that’s kinda rare in SNL sketches where it takes its time getting to the joke. There’s a LOT of dialogue that’s just them being affluent suburbanites before it sinks in that the Shed is what this is really all about, and that’s a pretty slow burn for SNL. I think that makes it…

Maybe they missed a trick there; but this is a setting with dozens of non-human races, so I wouldn’t call it immersion-breaking.

Maybe it was like how Murray on "Flight of the Conchords" quit his job, then went back several months later to beg for it back, only to find that no one had gotten his resignation letter, and nobody noticed he had been gone, so he just quietly resumed his duties.