First, it’s worth noting that Homicide had music editors that had some really deep cut knowledge. Long before Spotify playlists, possibly even before Youtube, I remember rather painfully tracking down a website that had parsed everything episode-by-episode because I’d genuinely never come across some of the stuff they…

It still exists, but is privately owned and not part of any tour.

Gen X: “Just give us a damned good cake, generational whining not needed.”

Kate essentially has no personality at all

perhaps second only to Richard Belzer’s John Munch

Harvard’s mocking of Love Story during orientation is one of the few things I genuinely laugh at about the undergraduate experience there - since the link probably won’t work, just search for the article “The Disease: Fatal. The Treatment: Mockery” from the NYT in 2010.

For some reason, last month Youtube was spitting out 1970s show intros in my feed, and having for some reason watched many of them, it is remarkable just how bad most of that television was, even for the shows that stayed on for a while.

Lear was exceptional, though, since off the top of my head, of major entertainment figures only Jimmy Stewart had anything resembling Lear’s frontline combat record - which was even more exceptional since unlike the then-unknown Lear, given his prewar stature Stewart could easily just have gotten into Special Services…

AV Club is almost certainly going to attempt as much dad show snark as can fit in columns on this one - possibly excepting the actual review, which I hope is thoughtful - but it took me a minute to figure out why even filtering that part why I wasn’t particularly moved by the trailer on a show I’m certainly planning…

If she’d just emphasized the work with A New Way Of Life - which is a genuinely worthy cause - and summarized her experiences as “I screwed up, but this is something good to come out of it,” this would have both been a solid step on the road to redemption and achieved the goal of getting the organization some decent…

I mean, it’s more proper to hate the Bachelor proper, since it’s always been a show that condescended to its audience (of almost all cishet women) that real life romance and relationships can bloom under a microscope for their viewing pleasure in convenient editing of 42 minutes at a time. If you’re buying into the…

I’ve found carrying around a Google Chrome - which weighs almost nothing - in my laptop bag facilitates streaming to hotel TVs that otherwise do their best to prevent it in an attempt to force you to PPV.

Missing from the writeup, but in the NYT link:

The cheering on Reddit for the intro’s happy ending between Pam and Ellen along with the latter’s miraculous reelection (per the extras, apparently due to her leadership post bombing, which among other things somehow even more miraculously wizarded away social moderates, let alone conservatives, from the mid 90s electo…

As always, the series balances sci-fi with grounded drama

The difference with American Sniper is that it’s pretty well documented that Chief Kyle started rather exaggerating his accomplishments - which given his actual badassery he didn’t really need to do - while alive, so doing so even further after his death in film format wasn’t entirely inappropriate.

Into retirement. Please.

because that kind of very-online anti-fun/creativity “criticism” is exhausting and pretentious

With the disclaimer that I’ve still not made it through S5 yet, this catches many of my concerns that stemmed from her portrayal at the end of S4.

Agreed. His was the only character in the first episode that felt dead on, and that came from his performance as much as it did from the sell job his role demanded he make of Dani.