Which is nice.

Christ…as if worrying what's gonna happen to Dennis Miller wasn't stressful enough.

Corporate layoffs aren't any different at ESPN than they are anywhere else.

If they told you that now, you wouldn't pay your money to see the movie.

I'm not one to credit every "showrunner" with deep thoughts on every little stylistic flourish, but I do suspect the 70/80s stuff will come to seem a tie-in to, or at least an evocation, of an era in the brothers' youth. I kinda liked how each brother even seems to be holding onto an outdated hairstyle from his…

And the whole "plot-inciting mixup that should have seemed obvious to the hired goon" thing.

AAAAND…the inside-the-turning-AC/bowling-ball shot.

Third-floor apartment. Air conditioner. Whaddaya need, a roadmap?

Quick tip for Ray: hand the parolee the lid, rather than them handing the cup to you.

Since there's a lot of Coen-referencing in this series, seemed like a kind of a "Serious Man prologue" thing—something that evokes themes to come in the larger story. However, my wife posits that Yuri Gurka is the dad/grandpa who gets killed in the (Lebowski-esque) mixup and that it will play a more central,…

Did it end in midsentece or something?

In some ways, Alec Baldwin is like a more handsome Fred Willard character in a Christopher Guest movie.

That's what she said.

And "Ghosts and Gray Blobs" is on A&E anyway.

"I'm too lazy to suss it out."
—The AV Club

Claiming to like a writer but not knowing how to spell his name means you may already have a head start.

I hereby stick up for Waiting For Somebody.

I would like you to know I am also old and get that. We should go to Home Depot sometime.

circle of life

Wasn't that basically what the sound of the beads was for? I mean, beads?