I read this, and while it could make sense, I just realized Curry Favor does sound like a female James Bond character.

Especially when you picture that's the age of Kim Gordon… back around 2004, Kim Deal back in 2011, and so many more women from the 90s who helped define an alternative idea of women and age (of course, one never looks to Hollywood for that) Returning to GG doesn't seem feasible. The equivalent mindset would need to be…

Really? This looks fairly mediocre so far. Music is hardly inspiring usage. Any scene she is in, it looks like everyone is at one faster pace and she can't keep that up and timing too. The only "nice" parts are lines like "let me help you with your bags" and then Theron's accent and delivery for that simplest comedic…

She's definitely interesting as a character, and should have developed further with Steven, but it seems they are on the back-burner for a while. Her role is necessary for providing the sole human and female perspective with access to the inner circle of the gang. Her reaction to the situations she sees are great for…

That fantastic 2010 ep of "Brian and Stewie" is an anomaly for Family Guy, it reveals what could be possible in the series but doesn't help defend the actual lazy, chaotic mess of fragments that don't even bother to line up. Now they cannibalize American Dad scripts (the latest used such a specific plot device: Stewie…

Surely, in this ep that was his whole thing really, embellished with Geneisms, but I enjoy it when the siblings interact where they perceive the stakes to be higher. At which point Gene would say something like, just how high are these steaks we're talking about?

Surely, but let's not drag cinema into this, please, the mediocre acting/rewards mess just expands exponentially with lots of other factors (director, genre etc.) TV is it's own special logic, especially sitcoms.

I appreciate these eps that are opening up Louise's character, and I think the courtroom idea was well done, funny, and I would have not minded if it had been given more weight and meaning like the Valentine episode. Especially with Gene and Louise placed in a kind of competitive situation, it could have been much…

This news only reinforces the idea that, judging actual acting talent in relation to lucky breaks, after Kaley Cuoco comes Alexis Bledel.

Right - Paxton was in great form, it gave me a whole different reading of his life and his approach as an actor - was really impressed. It certainly gave no clue as to the fact he was going to surgery that might end his life.

Definitely, and their loss of course. But I would still feel safe to add "but" (… which sounds like a Bart joke now that i write it ) Family Guy really seemed all over the place from the beginning, held together by gag and flashback, then found a moment or two where there was a sweet spot (especially around Brian and…

Which at least makes the ending sort of redeeming, in that Mr. Business is now going to be knocking things off and Gayle's going to have to be chasing after falling breakables etc. Which is a result of Bob's teaching attempt, turned revenge to some degree.

Wait, the "Troy > airconditioning Christ figure" is mentioned as more perplexing than Britte going for Troy, as in the same Troy of Troy/Abed, who still rooms with Abed?

I'm still wondering if there is any masterplan to basically destroying all their characters after just working long enough to provide them some range of attributes. The jerkification of Brian is long ago accomplished after he "died", Stewie is ratcheted down in this ep, like so many, to mainly providing exposition…

Never occurred to me, but now you've started me wondering about her voice as well.

I didn't mean to insinuate she actually made the paintings, I recall maybe one ep worked that idea, but all those eps I noted were about her relation to it, it was special to her for different reasons. Marge was the painting, Homer was the couch, to that effect. Unlike the couch-gag, I don't think Marge wants a…

I'll do that, not sure confident about film work, I can imagine him doing things in theater. Although the bar isn't too high regarding kids who grew up on screen.

I never was going to go out of my way to see Broderick in something, partly because outside of Neil Simon parts, his work comes off like a great character actor I didn't need to know more about. But I recall being more than a few times surprised at how funny and personable Broderick was as a guest on Conan over the…

There really is a distinct change in tone and a feeling of less oversight on the last few Simpsons, without any real payoff. I didn't like the way Marge is being handled in these eps, and sidelined. Any Simpson ep about the painting, draws the line from painting to Marge: that she painted it, that Homer had a forger…

HBO is late to the game. All you need is "Cracked Actor" and "Five Years" to understand the phenomena of Bowie. This last five years is probably interesting enough…