An Awfully Big Adventure is one of the first times I saw Hugh Grant in the “funny jackass” mode of the second half of his career, which I’ve always much preferred to “handsome nice guy” Grant. It’s quite a dark movie in some ways but he’s really good in it. And Witchfinder General has maybe Price’s best performance.

The doctor being actually alarmed at Scully participating in ANYTHING was so cartoonish but so funny. 

I’ve been rewatching the early seasons and remembering how funny and sweet this show could be at its peak. It's also been a reminder of how very good members of this cast could be, with my particular favorites being Stonestreet and Burrell. I think it's been a long time since this was consistently very good and it…

It’s a fairly small role but she’s so much fun in Jason and the Argonauts. One of the few performers in the Harryhausen fantasy movies who really seemed to get the warm but comic touch that could make those roles work. 

I was so glad for the twist in the Hitchcock and Scully plot. I just kept thinking that they were going way overboard in how bad they are at their jobs. Should have had more faith.

The Cam/Mitchell plot was good, both funny and with that unexpectedly sweet Lily moment of summarizing their relationship dynamic. The Jay/Manny thing was fine. The Dunphys acted like idiots. Gloria’s movers plot was odd. Other than acknowledging how unlikely her crazy resume is, I wasn’t sure what to do with it.

I hate every story choice the finale makes but the actual scene of them meeting at the train station is pretty much perfect: charming, sweet, funny, and given what we know fairly sad, too. 

Get Neo to reboot the Matrix. This version sucks. It feels like the Merovingian is running it. 

I love parts of Mars Attacks. Like pretty much any scene with Lukas Haas . . . he’s such an amiable dope who has no real mission beyond “save my addled grandma” and he gives the most hilariously terrible final speech in the history of film. 

Not Jessica Fletcher?

I actually have a soft spot for this deeply silly show.

I hope she uses her inevitable "mutually agreed upon rest period for reflection and development" and "welcome time to focus on my personal life" to find a clue. 

Just rewatched the Brown episode and my god are he, Samberg, and Braugher all fantastic in it. I’m shocked Brown didn’t win the Guest Star Emmy, though at least he was nominated. 

Not a great night for management on NBC sitcoms between Holt’s uncharacteristic cluelessness and and Amy’s complete failure to control the Carol situation over on Superstore. Though the soap opera recap interrogation was hilarious.

That photo is weirdly ominous, like an establishing shot in a slasher movie set at Olympic training camp. 

I thought it was a fairly entertaining episode, though I don’t buy that Marge would sell Homer out that quickly. It was a nice change of pace that Marge wasn’t a complete contrarian about everything. 

Robinson is a funny guy. Byer is very funny and should be a wonderful addition. But I’ve never really liked Doug Judy episodes. They all have basically the same structure and arc (is he going straight? is he conning Jake? are they conning each other?), they all rely on the same jokes about Jake and Judy’s mismatched…

I would probably have liked the Alex story more if this show ever let her be happy. She's become Lisa Simpson from the later seasons of The Simpsons where the writers seem to actively dislike her defining qualities of intelligence and wanting something beyond what her family understands or appreciates. 

Billie’s constant desire for praise and appreciation from the people she’s saving comes across really badly in a life-or-death situation she helped to perpetuate by going along with the lies about the captain and crew. She’s just as bad as the rest of them, only much smarter. 

This was just unpleasant to watch. Everyone behaved like an asshole, the storytelling was beyond bored, and most of the jokes didn’t land.