It's weird how a couple years back I used to pass by crews filming this show almost daily, yet now they have like 4 "Chicago" series and I never see anyone.

I always thought "Breaking Bread" would have been a much better name than "Talking Bad"

Super Mario Galaxy. It wasn't all bad— the occasional moments of pure platforming were great, and some of the design was clever— but the constant hand-holding and the general artificiality of the game was maddening. It was a game designed to give you exactly what you needed when you needed it, to trick you into…

Someone somewhere made a joke a few weeks ago about hearing the sound of a toilet flushing at tribal council, as Joe returns to his seat.

Thanks for the heads-up. The other two posts she wrote about Harris ("A Eulogy For Harris" and "The New Normal") are some of the most beautiful writing I've read in a long time.

Nick's Ponderosa video was one of the saddest moments of my life.

If Tai is with them, then I could see it being split down tribal lines, at least for a while. I thought beauty as a unit was done a long time ago, but it would make sense for it to be 3 beauty vs 3 brains, with Cydney as the swing vote.

It doesn't seem like he's trying to play. A bunch of his extended confessionals on youtube are him talking about how he's mostly there for the experience.

The other theory I heard on reddit was that the women's alliance tipped him off and told him the target was Jason as a test of his trust. If Tai shares the plan with Jason, it's a win-win since Jason wastes his idol and the girls know they can't trust Tai. Whereas if Tai IS with them, once they see the Jason vote they…

That was my theory as well. Tai decided to go rogue completely on his own without telling anyone, and rolled the dice that the brains were all voting Jason. There's a lot of incentive for Tai to take out Jason (he's the center of that alliance, he knows Jason has an idol), and maybe he saw this as a perfect…

Jeff DOES oversee everything though. He took over as showrunner/executive producer around season 20, so he's the final say on everything and comes up with a lot of the twists himself.

This is just a temporary tribe for the next couple weeks though. What's good for the beauties isn't necessarily what's best for Tai individually, especially if all the girls make it to the merge and he's still near the bottom of that group. I think it was much smarter for him to hold onto the idol for deeper into the…

I actually think the second one (the New Ho Ho Hos) was the funniest.

It's not clear if some of these will be a full show with these people, or just a showcase-style show where they do a few minutes up top and then just "host" and bring a bunch of other people up. I don't have a problem with either, but it would be nice if it were more clearly indicated somewhere. I'm disappointed that…

Great piece. I'm not a hugely emotional person, so movies are one of the few ways to stir up real feelings in me, but conversely I'm generally going to be fine. Whenever people talk about a movie that's "difficult to watch" I normally see them, experience a little bit of pain in a controlled way, but can almost always…

I'm hoping for a moment at this year's Oscars where Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence, and Amy Poehler all present together.

My dad and I rented the movie when I was 12, having no knowledge of what it was, and it was one of the few movies we ever turned off halfway through. I still have fond memories of us bonding by making fun of "the annoying cowboy and the whiny Indian."

He releases much shorter episodes on the same RSS feed on Fridays. They usually alternate between a best-of segment from a previous episode of the main show, and a 30-45 minute episode where the whole crew takes phone calls. They're a great way to get into the show if you don't have 3 hours.

I've sadly only heard a few episodes of this show (I should fix that), but everything you said about her comes through loud and clear, even on the air.

I know it's probably a little divisive, but Adventureland is one of my absolute favorite romcoms.