Yeah, Harvey was both mis- and under-used by this material; I honestly feel pretty bad for the guy. And to his credit, he brought his A game to a script that didn't deserve it: when the script called for "insane nonsensical comic book villain monologue" he stepped up and committed to that shit. But some scripts just…

I feel like there's a kind of a bell curve to an actor's career (if they're lucky), from "gotta take any role no matter how crappy" to "gotta eat, but being a little picky is good lest I get typecast" to "money no issue, take the roles that are interesting." Not a lot of them make it to that last stage: Ali's…

I've now spent at least 5 minutes looking at that photo and for the life of me I can't see an r/c helicopter in it, and the young lady is wearing a shirt.

The "site" operator in google is your friend. Try "andy sidaris site:avclub.com".

Sad fact: even before "Moonlight" turned into a critical smash, there was probably no way that they were gonna be able to afford to bring Mahershala Ali back for another season on a Netflix budget. Hell, I'd bet a few dollars he died halfway through because they weren't able to schedule Ali for the whole series. …

Okay, maybe I should actually have watched Veronica Mars. Is the rest of it any good?

In that one scene (which almost, almost made up for the rest of the misfire of this series' back half), Shades established himself as not only the smartest character on this show, but the smartest criminal on just about any crime drama I can think of in the last 20 years. Entire seasons of CSI, Law & Order etc would…

Embrace the power of "and"?

B- is seriously generous. I had rolled my eyes at a couple of the narrative choices in previous episodes, but once the soliloquies in the police station started, I did something that I hadn't even considered previously doing: I fast forwarded. A lot. Got to the very end, started watching again: apparently Mariah…

Your mouth to god's ear.

In general? Yeah, I think most people expect to live a bit longer.

"His most notorious creation is almost certainly the design for the Xenomorph, which first appeared in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi-horror film Alien."

^^^^^ This. I have no idea why they're bothering with the 13-episode seasons, unless it was some kind of contractual obligation. Every single season (including DD S1, which for whatever its flaws was probably the tightest) has been bogged down with filler in the middle. Going to 8 episodes would force them to cut…

sexually charged dynamic

Those plastic surgeries weren't going to pay for themselves.

I knew I was forgetting one of the all-time greats:

Fair cop.

Literally anything by Huey Lewis & the News.

"Pac-Man Fever" by Bruckner & Garcia

"We are the World" by USA for Africa