“Targon Egerton" sounds like a minor noble on Game of Thrones. 

When I saw Frozen on Broadway I was surprised by how much attention they gave to the goofy shopkeeper guy who's in maybe a minute of the movie. His song opens Act 2. Now I'm shocked he hasn't gotten a Disney+ spinoff.

Meet Me in St. Louis is the movie that always makes me cry. Weirdly not "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" but the father telling them they're not moving (and the grandfather taking her to the Christmas dance . . . God, I love that movie.) 

Remember that idiotic Friends episode where Phoebe was convinced a cat was her reincarnated relative? The tree thing was like that without Lisa Kudrow's incredible skill at making ridiculous things touching.

There’s something very sad and very Mac about giving the world’s worst dog an adorable name. 

I found the gag of Gloria manipulating Claire into chores funny but the show has to know at this point that nobody really cares about the work stuff (name one running plot about the closets or real estate or Mitchell’s various legal jobs that you ever really loved on this show). Manny is indeed insufferable, though…

I think some of his early DC work radiates with love for the characters but he was clearly always annoyed with the self imposed limitations on mainstream comics. His Swamp Thing run is like the ideal balance between sincere appreciation and experimentation. 

I don't think I appreciated how charming Celine Dion is earlier in her career. She just seems to enjoy being her. 

I thought this was a really strong episode. Good jokes, good character development, smarter than expected plotting. Yeah, I would have ditched Shauna but that Marge and Patty moment near the end was funny and sweet. 

Doctor Sleep. I was holding out hope despite not liking the book very much because I’ve admired Mike Flanagan’s other movies (Hush is like a perfect little gem of a movie). Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, and the young actress Kyliegh Curran as Abra are all good in it but it’s just not scary, despite one of the more…

It's also wrong. That lousy song from The Three Musketeers he did with Sting and Bryan Adams hit #1 on the Billboard chart in 1994.

Excellent news. Last season wasn’t their strongest, as it felt like they were making adjustments after the network switch, but I’m always happy to see these goofballs. 

I’ve never gotten why AHS tries to make so many of its finales poignant: reconciliations, reunions, forgiveness. The finales often sideline the horror for character beats that don't always land. (Sometimes they do. I find the final episode of Asylum incredibly moving.) I just wasn't invested in the daddy issue stuff…

Cricket continues to find new lows. 

One episode down, 13,000 to go does seem like the ideal binge. You could even package major storylines or arcs together as collections. 

Congratulations to this guy for what will no doubt be a lucrative, high profile, and fairly boring role (does Prince Eric get anything particularly interesting to do? all of the movie’s interesting stuff kind of happens around him). 

“Fear of Flying” is another good “Marge finds herself” episode, incredibly dated Prince of Tides references and all. “The Springfield Connection” where Marge becomes a cop. It’s hard to think of Marge episodes from the later seasons that I really enjoyed. The food blogger one was OK. They just always seem to have the…

Wonder Woman stepping out of the trenches into No Man's Land. My entire theater started cheering and a lot of it (including me) started crying. 

I’ve never understood why this song became a Christmas standard in the first place. There’s nothing in the original lyrics related to Christmas. Kind of like how “My Favorite Things” gets played at Christmas despite having nothing to do with Christmas. Are we so short of actual Christmas songs that we have to smuggle…

“Dickens was just one voice in a chorus of principled objections to murder-as-popular culture that go back to the early Enlightenment." That's taking the implications of Dickens' statement far beyond objections to public hangings.