While present day Celine Dion seems to be slowly morphing into Cher.  

I would love to see a Lovecraft adaptation from del Toro.  Pretty much by default the great Lovecraft director is Stuart Gordon and while some of his adaptations are interesting or fun (Re-Animator, From Beyond) none of them are particularly faithful and all of them strain to do cosmic horror on a tight budget.  

Nope, nice try but this is still not incomprehensible enough. I had a Joyce professor once say he used Wake to get to sleep at night. One page and he'd be out like a light. 

I feel like they really couldn’t decide how to treat James.  You obviously don’t hire Cumming unless you want the character to have a certain baseline kookiness and likability and he (and Whittaker) nailed the more serious beats.  But they really couldn’t decide how culpable or villainous they wanted him to be and…

That’s a terrific book - a historical done right.  

That final TV executive twist in the Homer story was suitably bizarre (when was the last time I actually remember watching USA? Monk maybe?). The plot came across as more genial than thin-skinned, so that was appreciated.  The Krusty plot just didn’t make me laugh much.  The idea that TV clowns are snobs because they…

His 70s run stacks up against the best runs in cinema. 

I’ve always wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, since I think the line itself is pretty dumb.  How are you supposed to say it? Wistful? Swoony? Sarcastic? Truly oblivious? Flirty? (That being said, it is a really bad acting moment.)

Good.  Love Sue Heck, think Sher is really talented, but a Sue-centric show never struck me as a great idea.  She’s a classic ensemble character.  

You know, if you want to make a point about moral panics and art you might be better off focusing on a hysterical parenting blog instead of carefully structured, peer reviewed research that is careful to not draw causal links or broad conclusions. And the blog you link to with a summary of the findings uses much more…

Good. Carrie and Big brought out each other's worst qualities. (Although I am trying to think of Big's good qualities. He has a cool voice?) 

His whole response is self deprecating and gracious and encourages others to support their interest in wrestling. If anything, this makes me like him better.

Go with a mix of traditional and new: some MST3K followed by Thanksgiving episodes of Brooklyn 99 (let Jake's hatred of the holiday flow through you) and Friends.

I think its heart was in the right place but I’m not sure it really understood drag. The French narrator gag worked surprisingly well, though.  

Little bit disappointed in Chernow, who should know better than to participate in this farce of an event where the administration and the press it openly loathes pretend to be buddies.

The message got seriously lost here, starting as a critique of harsh warehouse working conditions and ending somewhere around “the system knows best, bureaucrats just want to help, it’s those outside agitators who mess everything up.”  I’m trying to think of the last Doctor Who where the message got this muddled…

I definitely don’t think that’s what they were aiming for but unfortunately I do think that’s where they landed. Also, “petty bureaucrats have your best interests at heart.”  

“Paradise Towers” is definitely a solid comparison (and similarly muddled at the very end in terms of what the satirical/social point was).  

I am genuinely interested in seeing how the Avatar sequels fare. I went to Disney World this year and there were kids walking around the Pandora part of Animal Kingdom that clearly had no idea what Avatar is. It’s weird how such a massively successful film seems to have had so little cultural footprint (I mean, do you…

I actually like SJP. I think she can be really funny in the right role. But wow does she seem uninterested in these questions.