A man who could do gravitas and goofy at the same time. Great newscaster, greater scorekeeper.

I enjoy The Middle one largely because the Hecks still act like the Hecks, screwing up everything from which park they’re going to to sleeping through most of their vacation.

A character who shrugs off two murders, a suicide for which she is partly to blame, countless acts of televised character assassination, and the near death of a child is not going to be sentimental enough to use her ex’s nickname for her as a password. She is not going to show him around her dream home and speak…

Yeah, I feel like that Jasper/Rachel bit would have worked much better if we knew literally anything about him beyond “rich playboy.” It was a return to season one Rachel and nicely acted by both. It just had no weight.

Yeah, I didn’t understand her “unusable” tirade against Madison either. There would be no way to stitch that footage together to make a coherent episode without including the ex boyfriend breakdown to explain it.

Jeffrey DeMunn for Jud - just an idea, though Gwynne is admittedly the best part of the first movie and maybe the most spot-on piece of casting for a Stephen King novel ever.

Let’s not be startling 80 year olds any more than necessary. (Now, if you want to put on a xenomorph costume while bursting into James Cameron’s hotel room, be my guest.)

Yeah, I held most of my academic job interviews in hotel rooms during conferences. And I can only imagine how much reprehensible behavior went on in those types of situations over the years.

I have a soft spot for The Frighteners, which is both sort of a mess and sort of delightful, and Ermey is great fun in it (as are Astin and Dee Wallace and Jeffrey Combs and Chi McBride . . . I think I just talked myself into watching The Frighteners tonight).

Unstrung Heroes really is a lovely movie. OK, yeah, the flowers question is . . . odd . . . but it’s hard to come up with a quirky, interesting question on the spot.

I don’t even remember what happened with Mitchell’s old job or what he was supposed to be doing now so it’s hard to care about another job.

Strong Island was so good and so upsetting.

Using audio from calls to target ads? I feel like that happens in Minority Report at one point. If it doesn’t, it should.

I’m not with you on the “great movie” part but I also don’t get the hatred for the “Granny’s peach tea” moment. I can buy that Lex Luthor would amuse himself by putting a jar of piss in front of a senator right before she blows up as a sick payoff to a crude joke. (And, yeah, it’s pretty clear nobody actually drinks…

I loved The Fireman. This one felt like pretty much a second tier King novel (like, say, a Firestarter) but I can see it making an entertaining series.

The World War I museum in Kansas City (which is a fantastic museum, by the way) used to have a little Sgt. Stubby exhibit. Not sure if it is still there. I know he has a memorial brick at the museum.  

True, she is in some ways less problematic than Rachel, who occasionally tries to claim the moral high ground but who seems incapable of actually staying on the moral high ground.

I genuinely don’t understand how this show wants us to feel about Quinn anymore. Part of the time they portray her as an anti-hero - fun to watch, a few redeemable qualities, deeply, deeply flawed. Part of the time they portray her as an outright soap opera villain - fun to watch, sure, but also almost cartoonish in…

I was really thinking about what made the first season work so much better for me. Part of it really was the time they invested into making some of the contestants characters. I actually cared about Anna and Faith by the end of the season and Mary at least got to be a genuinely tragic character. Hell, even Adam was a…

On any other show I would have taken that whole discussion of quality vs. exploitation as a meta acknowledgment of the difference between the first and the second seasons. Who knows with this show anymore? The quality level swings wildly not only from episode to episode but from scene to scene. Kathleen Quinlan would…