That cold open was probably their worst cold open in years. It was just bizarre, didn’t really build up to anything, had far too many dragging moments and made no sense. Also why the hell have Matthew Broderick be Mike Pompeo, a dude who is known for his bombastic and aggressive style? The voice was never there.

My sense of disillusionment and despair about the reality of our system of government has hit all time lows.  I’m more angry at Democrats than I am Republicans.  Pelosi in particular.

You’re not wrong, but Jared Leto shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as Phoenix.

It's just common courtesy and class. Obviously the author has none. And yes its because you didn't pay up for first class. 

This episode was painfully awful and a perfect example of why this once brilliant show has bad episodes so frequently now. They don’t respect the audiences intelligence. Now, the characters say their intent out loud and you get who and what they are aiming the jokes at. There’s no subtly. I have no idea how they…

But for all the things about Harris’ campaign to focus on (her dismantling Trump lackeys in Senate hearings, her record on crime, her thunder being routinely shunted to white candidates in media stories), portraying her as a catchphrase-spewing attenion-seeker isn’t just lazy, it’s irresponsible comedy.

If your sketch is improved by a bizarre fuckup and the actors inability to hold it together, it’s not that great of a sketch. Yes, it’ll produce a laugh, but it’s not the laugh you want. You want them to think it was funny, not “Wow, they’re really melting down out there.”

I’m all for talking about how shitty it was for Lorne to have Trump host, but I’m never going to believe being on SNL got Trump elected. SNL just doesn’t have that level of cachet - even in 2000, when the show was more popular and more known to the public, Bush (who got a lot of fun and positive sketches on the show)…

“...it almost looks like she had a lift...”

What Emmy should it have won? Best Choreographed Dance Sequence in a Comedy Series? The episode had no jokes that landed and the writing was awful. Nothing about Frank and Cricket was remotely funny, and Dennis was absent again. I get people want to praise the message of the episode, but if the episode isn’t that…

I love how the writers here always assume weird things like how the ending of season 13 would absolutely have to change the fabric of the show forever. That it could not just go back to being a comedy again.

Not a very good episode. The Teddy twist was obvious from the beginning. The only times I really laughed were the pantsless reveal and “La Bamba.”

There’s a very simple reason why McQueary didn’t go to the cops right away: sometimes when we see things that go against our pre-existing beliefs, our brains work their asses off to come up with reasoning. McQueary respected Sandusky as a football coach and seeing him rape a child was outside of what he expected. So…

Here’s my review:

The problem with BL3 is that it lacks any of the depth of other loot-pinata games. Even the much-decried Diablo 3 has a greater level of interactivity for the player, given all the various skills and ways you can combine then (even with its over-emphasis on class sets). But with Borderlands, it’s still just pick up…

Simmons: Right.

In Gladwell’s defense, the Penn State coaching staff and administration probably spent more than 10,000 hours raping children and ignoring it, so he’d have to reject the entire premise of one of his own books if he didn’t recognize their expertise in the field.

It truly, deeply saddens me that probably 80% of people who see this (the declining a raise and donation thing, not this post, specifically) will not think critically enough about it to come up with exactly this take, even though it’s right there and obvious before them.

Fucking hell, man, the man’s brain being mush is an important fucking issue. It’s not “free ammo” for Trump. It’s incredibly germane to the question of whether he should be the nominee and/or the president. It’s a much bigger difference between him and the candidates with working brains than their healthcare proposals…

The idea that shit-talking a candidate during a primary harms them in the general was probably never very true, and most assuredly isn’t true at all now. The overwhelming majority of people in this country know who they will vote for next November based solely on the letter by their name. Modern American elections are…