Rewatching the first season of Brooklyn 99 on Hulu. Such a fun, likable show and so enjoyable to watch the show figure out how to use the supporting cast at their funniest. 

I agree that Newton is fantastic and underused but I’m not sure it’s any worse than, say, Tyne Daly showing up for one throwaway scene in Homecoming or Alfre Woodard getting one scene in Civil War or Jimmy Smits’ “I’m just here to connect this with the prequels” cameo in Rogue One or pretty much any respected actor…

The limited series category is pretty awful. You can make a good case for American Crime Story but after that it gets well-acted but dull (Patrick Melrose, The Alienist), just plain muddled (Godless), and actively terrible (Genius).

I can’t believe there’s a Venom movie featuring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams,and Riz Ahmed and I have zero interest in it based on the trailers and other ads.  The rating has precisely zero effect on my interest level.  

I wasn’t really sold on this until the song but anything that can encourage literacy and give me a gore quotient is OK in my book.  

In general I’m not loving the trend of every show getting a reboot but this one makes some sense to me, though it’s going to be hard to beat the original cast (heck, they replaced cast members the first time around with some very funny actresses like Jan Hooks and Julia Duffy and it didn’t really work). Workplace…

I feel like it almost has to be either the dog or DeDe, who are close enough to major characters to be significant but not so central or well-liked that their deaths would be a major downer.  That being said, I’ve so grown to dislike most of these characters after really enjoying the early seasons that I would be OK…

Collins's carefree attitude to cannibalism was funny. The costume design was striking (though the set looks weirdly cheap). I sure hope our two young lovers get personalities at some point. 

Well, Dennis's welcome video is going to haunt my nightmares.

Hold a Viking funeral and build the pyre with clown paintings.

Rereading the book last year, the main thing that struck me as unadaptable about the climax wasn’t the Ritual or the turtle (that’s pretty standard cosmic horror stuff) but the storm/flood combo that wrecks Derry. I’m sure they have the budget to do it but it seems like a massive distraction from the actual…

The next time The AV Club runs an article attacking a celebrity for expressing hateful views I’m going to remember that you posted and endorsed this video, which among other things finds the idea of a man lisping hilarious.  And this from an artist who has been criticized before for dropping gay slurs in her lyrics.

Che and Jost do OK at the set up a news story/punchline stuff, though neither of them has ever really developed a distinguishable style as anchor, like Norm Macdonald’s slow snark or Tina Fey’s smiling scorn or even Dennis Miller’s wordy smartass.  Which seems weird, since they are the ones writing it.  They’re also…

Look, if the nun puns bother you just take a vow to not read these articles. Let them know you're having nun of it.

Good for him. Now he can work on the Robert Lopez, where you win each award twice. 

Has any major movie franchise ever had a more screwed up canon than Halloween?  Even discounting the weirdness of Halloween 3 (where the first Halloween movie is a movie within their universe) you have a whole series of reboots and retcons.  Hell, this isn’t even the first time they’ve wiped away most of the sequels…

Yep, I was another person who got excited for H20 and the return of Curtis back in the day. And, frankly, I still like the last act of that movie a lot, when Laurie decides she’s had enough and is going to lock him in with her for one final confrontation. Curtis makes it feel earned.  

The novel does a good job conveying the mother’s growing awareness that something is very wrong, as well as the growing desperation of being unable to really talk to anyone about it. The original film does that, too.  In a lot of ways it’s more a parenting horror story than anything else.  What would you do if…

I remember nothing about the actual movie Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (in both the Hammer Dracula and the Hammer Frankenstein movies the sequels tend to have more or less interchangeable plots) but the poster is delightfully Hammer, with a close up on a heaving bodice and two band-aids affixed to a neck wound.  

Pickles somehow never won for St. Elsewhere and is in her 80s, so I find it hard to begrudge her an Emmy.