Yep, I too did a double take on that going ‘There’s no way Garfunkel looks that good nowadays’ before realizing who it actually was.

by her demeanor in the interviews, didn’t seem to harbor any ill will but I never forgot it

After Seasons 2 (and for that matter the ending of Season 1), “excited” is not quite the word that I would use for True Detective even after the partial rebound in Season 3.

I wish the people gagaing over Hamilton after the musical would have also watched the Adams-Hamilton confrontation in John Adams; he really did try to get the US to go to war with France as General Hamilton in an attempt to return to political power.

The remarkable thing about his performances is that you can easily recall them just from looking at the film title.

Yeah, while I thought the characterizations in Plumbers were a bit over the top and the plot a bit too condensed - I wouldn’t have wanted to watch it knowing nothing about Watergate - this wasn’t a bad series at all.

There are undoubtedly people who hate this film

My back twinged just reading that.

Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that the internet in all its glory apparently pounced on this about a day after it aired. Nor that the SNL writers appear rather familiar with that part of Craigslist.

I’ve always wanted to see the details of the Craigslist ad for that, although I think I’m better off not knowing.

Married With Children’s You Better Watch Out.

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…