I’m going to redirect us over to my Kinja so that we don’t upset the Deadspin gods with our non-Chris Christie related conversation (which I am enjoying and want to flourish!).

You had me until John McEnroe. Even in cameo format, he’s bound to be insufferable.

It has always been to some extent. Look at how he made a years-old, well-known story about Seinfeld become a headline reported as if it is breaking news just by getting Alexander to toss some “fucks” into this particular re-telling.

As I mentioned yesterday, the background on what happened between the cast and Heidi Swedberg has been around a long time in interviews and DVD extras. Unfortunately, it got Howard Stern-ized this week and turned into a “new” headline. It was very classy of Alexander to step up and apologize as he did.

Of course! Thought it was a great open, though needed to watch it twice (having to cover one’s eyes for much of the action makes it sometimes difficult to piece together all of the goings-on). Wasn’t quite clear on the chronology with the final scene of him on the train and the visual that was being intercut - can you…

No one can ever put a label on you!

Go for it! They’ll be sorry they resisted watching for so long :)

Watch it without ‘em! I don’t have kids and thought it was just terrific, a lot of fun.

Oh no, not the pride of Wayland, Massachusetts!

I wanted to like it and did enjoy the performers. But it too often felt like a wanna-be Nancy Meyers movie. As one critic put it:

Let’s just hope season two has far less of Robert and Sol. And the kids. More Grace & Frankie.

I greatly enjoy Elementary and think it gets a bad rap because it airs on CBS, so there’s an assumption it sucks and/or is for old people. Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu are both terrific - I prefer them to Bentobox and Freeman - and there is a great supporting bench of recurring and guest figures (Aidan Quinn, Natalie…

Ah, gotcha. I liked the first series, but the next two became progressively worse.

Irene Adler, are you an Elementary fan as well?

Oh I didn’t know you were an AV Clubber, I will keep my eye out for you there. Did you read the review for tonight?

Oh I understand what you mean. He meets the minimum requirements for getting the job done, but doesn’t run away with things the way a stronger performer could do.

I find Dancy serviceable given what is required - to me Graham is more reactive than proactive and unfortunately for the actor, a good deal of his stage direction is along the lines of “stare intensely as Will mentally revisits a profoundly painful moment from his past.” He doesn’t detract from the goings-on around…

Thanks for reminding me less than six hours till its return!

The people who pulled together Spy’s trailer must be the same group responsible for Paddington’s, another film that looked absolutely horrible in those two minutes but turned out to be a charming delight of a film.

This honestly isn’t new (and I know Jez isn’t the first outlet to run with it like it is new this week). The story is on one of the many extras included with Seinfeld DVDs and Alexander has talked about it elsewhere as well.