You know what? Maybe “pretty dull TV” is EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD WANT FROM OUR PRESIDENT.

I never bought into the idea that they were awful people, just heightened versions of the stereotypical cynical and self-centered New Yorker. They spent a lot of time helping various friends out, etc., and only dipped into truly bad behavior when cornered (Jerry stealing the marble rye, for instance).

This last season was so solid, it completely soared over my head that his legal trouble in the first episode would culminate with a do-over of the terrible Seinfeld finale. Even watching the episode, hearing him talk about how he’s never learned a lesson—it all seemed so on-brand for Larry, I missed the obvious setup.…

“...conversation with the man in the cell across from his about the fold in his pants forming a “pants tent” is a fun little reference to Curb’s pilot episode.”

The way Colin Farrell delivers that line with psychotic earnest while chewing the scenery actually works though.

Woof, where to even begin with this.

I shouldn’t be surprised or upset considering the Emmys past history of screwing over Rhea Seehorn, but dammit, I’m still pissed off Rhea Seehorn got denied once again by the farcical fools that decide the Emmys. Look, I enjoyed The White Lotus, but for fucks sake, Jennifer Coolidge was playing Jennifer Coolidge. As…

You never heard ALL the jokes about Leonardo DiCaprio’s dating?!? For example, “This ceremony is so long that by the end, Leo’s date will be too old for him to be interested in anymore.”

“Would he dare say that about a rapidly developing 11-year-old?”

This is my first time watching Twin Peaks. I'm bingeing S1/S2 of this show before starting the new season, and this is also my first foray into David Lynch.

Well…did it?

I just want to point out real quick that "Believe to Understand" is probably not zen, but Christian; specifically, it's too close for coincidence to early Christian father Augustine of Hippo's "credo ut intelligam"—-"I believe [in order] to understand." That's all.

I watched this series as it originally aired when I was 40. And trust me, some of the stuff with BOB (most of it, really) was no walk in the park. Mind you, I watched horror/monster movies as a kid (mostly 1940s & '50s stuff that wasn't exactly modern slash & gore, but very artfully scary) and rarely, if ever, batted…

Nobody likes a math geek, Scully.

Seeing how many of your were about 15 when you first watched this episode and feel scarred by it, imagine how it was for me to watch it when I was just 7 years old. It was the most graphic depiction of death and pain a child could witness, plus at the same time I was going through my Grandpa's death, my milk teeth…

Wasn't it the other way around? I remember reading in The Sopranos reviews that it was his getting hired for The X-Files that led us to never seeing his Sopranos character again. Either way, he's fantastic in both series.

But Rowan, I've already explained that I'm too lazy to look it up on the Internet. Wikipedia is part of the Internet. Besides, that won't answer my last question about whether the idea was used elsewhere before.

I fucking adored Agent Pendrell and was *so* sad when he died. And that he got a kind of off-hand mention.

Pusher
This is my favorite episode of the entire series. I love it, I think, because it has everything—an unforgettable villain, wonderful Mulder/Scully interaction, a terrific sequence of plot points, and a lot of wit, humor, and suspense—and it also loves and values the form of the show itself. Darin Morgan is…

Piper Maru
The last scene—"Feel better?" "Like a new man"—is probably the best cliffhanger the show ever did. (Scully and Skinner's standoff at the end of "The Blessing Way" is a close second.) I remember almost levitating out of my seat with excitement when I saw it for the first time. And the funny thing is that I…