Bochco’s Columbo episodes are some of the best. Particularly love “Etude in Black,” with John Cassavetes as an arrogant conductor.

Yeah, I think this was a D or even an F. It was so lifeless and going through the motions. There are plenty of later season episodes I like but it’s almost never a good idea to remind people of legitimately classic episodes, let alone about four of them. And what was with the weird swipe at Arthur Miller at the end?…

I’m hoping for a good movie - still think Levi was a great choice - but it really is one of those properties made up of pure, unironic wish fulfillment and joy. I think the character may just be too inherently dated to work outside of camp or satire. It’s a little like The Phantom in that way.

Aw, I remember being a super-repressed gay evangelical teen, watching the movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar, and having some very confusing feelings about Carl Anderson’s sexy Judas.

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. Good-looking high schoolers go out to a family ranch in the middle of nowhere for a weekend of drinking, sex, and being their vapid, unbearable selves. I get what they were going for - it’s got a certain grindhouse feel and late in the game they try to make some clever spins on slasher…

Can I sell you on the 1973 musical remake of Lost Horizon? Terrible performances from great actors like John Gielgud and Liv Ullmann? Terrible songs from genius songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David? What Roger Ebert once memorably described as the worst choreography he’d ever seen? It’s a glorious mess.

About 1/4 of the Book of Jonah is Jonah and God arguing about a plant.

But does the local bookstore have his book in the “local authors” section? Because that would be impressive for a housepet.

Law & Order: Celebrity Bite Squad has been canceled. Although, who I am kidding, I would absolutely watch that.

I have a soft spot for the movie, mostly because of my love for Coscarelli going back to Phantasm and The Beastmaster and some of the actors, but it makes no sense if you try to connect any of the scenes together. I found the book just plain unreadable.

Be excellent to each other - actually pretty good advice to live by.

Cougar Town was egregious about product placement - everybody spent a season eating Subway and Bobby once went on vacation to Target - but I liked it when Bobby was trying to score a pro golf sponsorship from Diet Dr. Pepper. It’s played as completely absurd and they wind up making the fizz of Diet Dr. Pepper what he…

Yeah, the last time we saw him he was on the loose. Maybe he checked himself back into Arkham just so he could break out again? It wouldn’t be the silliest explanation Gotham has ever given for a plot.

“It’s too painful to think about. I’ve been agonizing over it for months and I’ve just pieced the smallest part back together.” [Five second “you suck now” speech] “Now let me have an incredibly detailed flashback which seems to cause me no pain. OK. Now I’m instantly ready to head the League of Shadows.” Never…

I have problems with the Haddock stuff, too. I mean, he always drank in the comics but they also made it clear he was a competent sailor.

Plus Blackish got a huge ratings boost, which means at least some of those viewers stayed to watch a pretty frank (but then surprisingly touching) discussion about race and food culture.

In that scene between Haley and Alex I was waiting for her to make the connection to Dylan (so pretty, so dumb).

A lot of scenes just felt like variations on scenes that were already in the pilot. It seemed to crawl along.

This show really wants to be Battlestar or The Expanse. It hasn’t yet figured out how to make the characters compelling (though that scene with the ashes was a nice start) or how to set up the world without endless exposition dumps.

I enjoyed this one. The Dunphys were actually sorry for their crappy behavior for once. Cam and Mitch frantically arguing in charades was funny. The Jay/Gloria plot wasn’t great but Gloria feeling insecure for once is an interesting change. But hey, I grew up around Royals fans so I might have been predisposed to like…