The closest analogy I can think of is “Frank’s Brother,” which focuses almost entirely on one member of the gang.  

Weirdly the scene I actually found moving was Phil and Cam in the car. The show doesn’t pair those two very often and it was a nice moment of them bonding over the messy family they married into. Hot firefighter is a surprisingly good fit for Alex in some ways. I thought the Gloria plot was maybe a shade too silly for…

This is one of the very few Sunny episodes ever I just genuinely disliked. There were a couple of decent jokes (I enjoyed the aftershave bit) but everything after the leg trap was kind of labored and unfunny.

This man played a lawyer, politician, or judge in every network drama I ever watched growing up and grumpy authority figure on every sitcom. Not mocking; you have to be good at what you do to become the go-to for dozens of different shows.

As someone who loved this book as a kid I want to disagree with your characterization here but I really can’t. I inserted a reference to it into my doctoral dissertation, which is a level of pedantic nerdiness that gets even other nerds to beat you up and take your lunch money. 

Were no axe murderers available?

Given what the actual twist is in that movie, how can you possibly make a sequel? I realize the answer is "the box office says so" but it would be a mind boggling coincidence for that exact thing to happen twice.

I mean, Wiseman has been using this deliberately slice of life, no narration, no overt agenda style since Nixon was president, even when dealing fairly directly with political topics. Why expect him to change now and what purpose would it serve? 

I agree with that whole list and I do enjoy the show for its cheesy, gleefully stupid, and continuity-discarding self but it does seem telling that Gordon is nowhere on that list. The “Gotham Central” aspect of this show has never worked right.  

On the one hand, Del Toro’s sensibility is a great fit for this kind of material and the original novel has some very fucked-up imagery and events (for some reason people never include the coffin-carrying rabbits). On the other hand, in terms of theme this sounds a lot like Andrei Konchalovsky’s bizarre Nutcracker…

Maybe this is the rare case where you should have taken relationship advice from magazine polls about your relationship.

But "whiny brat" is the tone The Force Awakens in particular took with him. The horrifying thing is that he's a whiny brat with incredible power. 

Yeah, in terms of story structure I thought a lot about The Time Meddler and The King’s Demons, both of which have the change-a-key-moment-in-history thing going on.  

Bowman was the best part of Time After Time. He really seemed to relish playing an absolute bastard.

I liked the episode a lot but I could have done without the song. The moment was powerful enough by itself.

Robinson was terrific as Parks. I had the same fears about sidelining Parks in her own story but they handled it well. The bad guy was indeed kind of boring but that totally works here - the bad guy should be just a petty, bitter bigot in this story. Why is Ryan so hard on Graham, though?

We're all sick of Goodnight Moon, Maggie. 

“Privilege” as a verb meaning to grant preference or priority has been used for centuries. 

I may need to get a clip of Chidi answering “will this be on the exam?” to show to my classes right before finals.  

“They all burned in hell forever, the end” does seem like a very possible ending for It’s Always Sunny but, yeah, I don’t see a network comedy (or a Mike Schur comedy) going that route.