The John Wayne movie The Searchers is supposed to be a landmark of American cinema, but to me it represents the mythologizing of the worst of the American character.

I liked The Grinder, but also thought one season was about right for that premise.

She went back to India for her job and ended up cheating on Leonard. She was never heard from again.

I'm of two minds about Violet. On the one hand, it makes sense to bring her back into the show's orbit, since the premise is about generations of women living with addiction.

Along with Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan, she's on my short list of Media Personalities I Would Love to Punch in the Face.

It's not so much about being "correct" as being aware of how people live their lives.

Wrong. On Chicago event calendars, Summer starts Memorial Day weekend and ends Labor Day weekend. Anything after Labor Day is a Fall event, regardless of Earth's rotational position.

Riot Fest is in the fall.

"ancient Black musicians?" Ouch. The music the first Blues Brothers used was only about 20-40 years old when the movie came out in 1980. They weren't exactly plumbing the depths of long-ago history there.

I think Green Day is like Bon Jovi in the sense that have the trappings of a genre (Punk and Rock, respectively), but also have mass appeal because deep down they are really Pop bands.

I think the those bands' career arcs are a little different. Metallica had built up a huge following in the Metal community before they went commercial with The Black Album. Green day has never been as musically relevant. Philosophically, they're closer to Bon Jovi than Metallica.

I've read that losing 1-2 pounds per week is ideal because it allows your body to reset itself and get used to a new "normal" weight. The crash dieting and exercise they do on the show can't be good for much of anything except drama.

Not sure what the point was in bringing French Stewart back.

"That would be in the butt, Bob."

It really is a startling contrast between Fey's portrayal of Marcia Clark on her show and Sarah Paulson's on The People Vs. OJ Simpson. Now that I know a little more about what the real person was like and what she went through, the Kimmy Schmidt version seems a bit cruel and uninformed.

It's stuff like this that confirms that either 1. The Beatles were truly a whole that was greater than the sum of the parts or 2. The Beatles truly were "Lennon and McCartney and two other guys you can stick in there, doesn't matter who."

Would it be out of line to assume that pretty much EVERY industry was hostile to women executives in the '80s and '90s, and before? And many of them still are?

Michael McKean has a wonderfully cinematic face. There have been a couple of shots this season of just him from the neck up, full frame. His features almost make him look like a painting.

I thought John Cena was an unexpected surprise, acting-wise. He may have sitcoms in his future when he's done with WWE.

"…even as his self-appointed social better smooth talks his mom and throws vaguely racist shade at his kid."