No, it’s all competitions and novelty shows. There is no demonstration or instructional cooking anymore. And they wonder why viewership is down.

Like many other things I think the internet has beaten up the “celebrity chef” mystique. Most of these guys got their start back when the only way to really get noticed and build an audience was on cable or via “foody” magazines. Now anyone with above average cooking and communication skills can get a YouTube channel…

Thanks to your perfectly apt description, now I want to see Pratt play an affable dude-bro who swaps bodies with an actual Golden Retriever.

That movie would’ve been a whole lot better if it had played out from Jennifer Lawrence’s perspective.

He kind of gets close in the Strangers With Candy movie, but yeah it would be interesting to see him do something like that now that he has a more well-known public persona.

Paul Rudd.  I’d like to see if he could be a bad guy without any jokes or smiling.  Like can he actually be scary?

Hello Fred McMurray in Double Indemnity.

He’s kind of done that as a supporting role with wanted and bride wars,  then his characters would start there and get redeemed in like take me home tonight and 5 year engagement, and now he’s full on golden retriever. I don’t know if his career arc can tip back the other way now. Though passengers gave it a shot.

He doesn’t have the chops to do that AT ALL.

I’d like to see Amy Poehler as a delightfully chipper serial killer in a John Waters film.

He did play a bit of a dude-bro jackass in Wanted, but that was more of an ‘asshole’ secondary character than a proper villain.

It sounds like that’s the movie Passengers should have been but wasn’t.

That is the greatest example ever of a movie made *better* by something external that came after.  It’s an entertaining movie, but Jimmy “George Bailey” Stewart as a wild-eyed unhinged murderer really is wonderful.

Jimmy Stewart in After the Thin Man. He hadn’t yet become America’s dad, and it’s just a last reel reveal, but he still gives great murder.

Elijah Wood in Sin City. 

Seasons 4 and 5 are great and they still hold up honestly. I definitely question people who say the show stopped being good halfway through when the Constant exists. Season 6 is definitely rough but I don’t overall think the show had a huge decline.

I agree with a lot of that.

I watched it when it originally aired and am in the middle of my first re-watch since then. I pretty much agree with all of your points.

I just finished Lost for the first time on Sunday and I don’t have anyone to talk about it with because I’m 5+ years behind the time. Two things that surprised me based on all the discussion I’ve heard over the years were:

A) I though it mostly did a good job of answering the questions that needed to be answered. There…

“Triumph at Comic-Con” may be the all-time greatest episode of Hollywood Handbook. It’s a new level of metatextual cringe comedy.

Meanwhile, what they actually did on stage was funny; I scorn that audience for not laughing at “I, of course, played Mrs. Batman in the original series.” (Though I think my favorite…