Day is excellent in The United States vs. Billie Holiday (a not very good movie overall). Really, the whole Best Actress line-up is pretty spectacular and it feels like some of those films might have been too “weird” or “small” or whatever for a more traditional Oscar campaign. I don’t think there’s a bad winner in…

Her reasoning there was so bizarre. They had already been functioning as a family unit. It was such a weirdly brutal way for the writers to keep Jonah in St. Louis. 

I honestly expected a Quentin-played Harry Mudd. 

I hadn’t thought of it as a possible reference to Infinity War but that’s interesting. 

Monica’s “they’ll never know what you gave up for them” moment really rubbed me the wrong way. Wanda has my sympathies and she absolutely does the right thing in the end but the show has been very careful to point out that her spell did to these people what she most feared for herself - it separated them from their…

Suddenly realized that the Jumanji movies are carefully constructed so that Jonas doesn't even have to try to be funny. He seemed game enough (and excellent arms) but wow was he a drag on anything comic. 

“But what is grief if not love persevering?" What a sad, beautiful way to sum up what Wanda and Monica have both been working through in the series. 

Kyla Kenedy is a likable and talented actress but the family half of this show never works for me. The tone shifts too hard and it always seems like Danson is the grandfather suddenly dealing with the wry granddaughter, not a long term single parent. 

I love this movie. One of my go-to cheering myself up movies along with Easter Parade and Singin in the Rain. Kelly's newspaper dance is inexplicably sexy. Garland does that lovably flustered thing as well as she ever did. 

The Devil All the Time was so punishing, relentlessly bleak and depressing. I really wasn't looking for more of Tom Holland Suffers: The Movie. 

The final scenes in the episode, with Ned talking to Bart and then taking comfort from Edna's diary, were actually quite sweet. It’s a shame that the rest of the episode was the sixty seventh version of “Lisa is jealous of someone else’s success.” 

I have to admit I found Darcy annoying in the first two Thor movies, where her character just seemed totally at odds with the tone while not being particularly funny. I like her so much better here - in part because they let her be more sincere and almost wounded at times (what were her last five years like?)  

I watched the Pearl Bailey episode of TMS, then WandaVision, then the Rita Moreno episode, so I'd like to think I contributed either way. 

And introducing Dame Maggie Smith as Gwen Stacy. (Actually, I would absolutely watch that.)

Margaret Rutherford pretty much walks away with the Lean version. Dench could have been great. 

Robert Monster? Even latter day Simpsons episodes would reject that name as too on the nose. 

It's an uneven movie but it has some of my favorite gags in a Muppet movie, like the rats acting like they're on a cruise ship. 

The birthday party sketch really nailed how oddly judgy some of those cute knickknack signs are. The theater troupe performing so that they could use the library printer was funny and King was committed to that character. 

I really don't know what Agnes is or whether she's up to anything but her wail/cackle was creepy as hell.

Roseanne and Fresh Prince jump out as iconic family sitcoms of the 90s but neither would quite work for the "boring suburbs" feel of the other shows they've referenced (which would also seem to make a Modern Family homage inevitable).