Night and day in terms of energy - the first ep was so amped up with Kathy Najimi and Rosie getting ties, everyone knew how to play it for real. Strahan too stiff, it needs a Drew Carey.

Having now watched this, I would have to say first of all the article went out of its way to say something nice about Adam Goldberg's performance - he basically wasted the players time and without some kind of payoff like, wit or comedic effect. Rosie of course plays it for keeps. Which is what audiences want,…

Great article, right amount of connoisseurship and scary detail already before reaching the production design section. Some of those awful Match game iterations… wow. I'm surprised Baldwin is doing this, but on the other hand playing with tv modes and roles seemed more his thing than potential Oscar roles.

No KISS Army either.

There not only were super-pets but they actually got their own Legion of Super Pets by 1962?! (Thanks Internet…) Who did not get a Legion back then? The names are the best, as if Superman and Supergirl were planning a touring vaudeville act: Comet, Streaky, Krypto and Beppo!

"Drewn Together!"

Nicely written summary of the WW story. But regarding to the comic artist / herstorian (her term) Trina Robbins contribution, I would have liked to read just a bit more on the first woman to finally get a chance at Wonder Woman. Especially as she is quite vocal on the story of WW and its current direction as well. Why…

The fact that Sylvia and Hater made the self-aware references to "season" in the beginning half of the episode, felt like WoY was at least adapting their script to acknowledge the discussions around it and that it was the finale. In that respect, I enjoyed seeing Hater get one moment to be focused and competent, it's…

So Hater ends up quite similar to Mojo JoJo in terms of backstory/chimp then? That's funny to think one show's adversary was powered by mojo, another show by hate.

After Kubrick's death there were a few very good "making of" programs on his movies that were produced, I think primarily through the BBC. I highly recommend "The Making of Dr. Strangelove" (now on youtube) as well as the one on 2001.

Good points all. I guess one should recall the spirit of the term a.v. club was literally for school's all media technical facility that generally, inevitably became the space for exchange and fostered a range of "oddball" media appreciation, and cartoon culture was always part of the mix. I would be more able to…

"So foreign and yet so familiar" - really well put, and so apt for that cultural echo of American history. I'm thinking of the Stanley Brothers "Are you afraid to die" or "Another Night" especially. At least he lived long enough to see the music rewarded.

While I am surprised to read this is being dropped from the TVClub, what makes me respond is the observation early on first paragraph, that the show is essentialy "primarily intended for children." That is set up like a shot across the bow of the readership or something, as if proactive, anticipating the…

Nic Cage seems like he took a page from the playbook of the late-career Joan Crawford. And then extended it for a whole book-length.

I've noticed in past interviews Julia Louis-Dreyfus seem to lament that "Watching Ellie" didn't get its due. It seems to be THE one for her, which to me always felt too gimmicky and complicated just by its explanation.

Also she surround herself with an interesting cast of supporting characters (ex-husband, her son, her brother - and later more with her friend / business partner) who orbited around her surely, but had a good amount of screen time too.

Agree with you, certainly that Asian dictator. Some of the overall feeling that this is fun but familiar. A lot of weight is on Roger-centric things too (getting all his characters together is one-shot visual that was fantastic). It is starting to go through iterations of the same rather than expanding on situations…

Archer returns reincarnated as a car!

Yeah that is it, a stock company feeling. I think all the praise was towards intention - the designers researching period clothing and interior details etc. and for that tv era, it was fine enough, just before the new breed of programming came along and seriously upped the ante. I think budgeting is blown on the first…

Wow, that picture from "Jem and the Holograms"…. it looks like someone vomited bedazzled rhinestone glitter all over the band.