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Well I really disagree with calling her bland. On Happy Endings I often found myself in awe of her timing, and pretty frequently rewinding scenes to hear her line readings again. She's one of the few comedic actresses I've seen who can so gracefully snake her way through the kind of overlong joke-within-joke lines

Nice nice nice. I haven't read the final book of the trilogy yet, but I'm super excited to see Annihilation adapted to film. Like, I'm sure it'll be butchered horribly, but still.

I feel like an article with this exact same sentiment was run back around when 2 Broke Girls was coming out. The mutli-cam sitcom hasn't really curried much favor since then, and I don't think it's going to now. The format will, however, probably continue to pull in huge ratings despite nobody you know actually

I don't see it. I just see the site grade. Weird.

The elevator not closing at all was funny. The elevator doors closing really slowly was funnier. The double-bird flip opening the doors again *really slowly* was the icing on the cake. Just perfectly executed. I was laughing into the next scene, and yeah, that's really impressive for a pilot, let alone the opening

Just finished this. That opening scene was fantastic. I don't know if a comedy pilot ever gave me multiple big out-loud laughs before the title card. It slowed down a little from there but this is clearly worth following. The line about a slow motion hate crime was great.

Okay serious question: why can't I see the community grades? Where are they?

It's the first track. Start at Track 2 and you can forget all about it.

Good news: You can like two things! Swift is the most mainstream pop artist I listen to regularly, liking her doesn't really negate my liking of other, more interesting artists too.

That song is the main reason I was mildly dreading this album before it came out. Thank god it's the outlier.

Ha, yeah, I remember watching the Grammys that year (god knows why), and when they were announcing the nominees for Best Country Album, the snippet they played from Red was from "I Knew You Were Trouble". Like, come on. I felt embarrassed for her, as if everyone in the crowd was thinking "Does this poor delusional

I HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO SAY ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT

This album is really great. I was also a big fan of Red (never gave much of a listen to anything of hers before that, and don't have much of a desire to), but 1989 has a much more cohesive sound to it and it's a sound that suits her well. Shake It Off is a solid single but not really the best of the album - as an

I thought Chapter 2 was better than the first. The last 30 minutes or so of the first really deflated the tension. Weird Darth Maul demon was scary when he was glimpsed briefly earlier but when they show him in full he just looks silly. Chapter 2 has its share of problems but I thought it more consistent at least. But

How on EARTH did that Renee Zellweger joke happen? Didn't that happen like 2 days ago?

It's days like this I'm glad I have a working knowledge of mid-2000s era Young and the Restless. And by days like this, I mean just this day specifically, at this particular moment, and not once before and almost certainly never again.

I enjoyed his use of the phrase "Tatum-Dewan-Tatum Scale", which I will be attempting to use in real life whenever the situation allows me to.

The blind guy at the meeting - "Black? Darkness? Endless night?" - was maybe the funniest thing Selfie has done yet, exactly the kind of non-sequitur humour I love in a show. I was laughing at that almost through the end of the whole scene. If this show can deliver moments like that on a semi-regular basis, it will

Well some of it is "factual". In one version of events, the daughter is flipped upside down which obviously either happened or it didn't (though your interpretation makes sense). As another example, Noah goes on a rant about french cigarettes and gives her one in her memory but in his, she offers him a cigarette. Just

I really enjoyed this pilot but the lack of subtlety was, at times, a little off-putting. I get that basing a series around a he-said-she-said conceit needs some stark changes between the perspectives to avoid being a frustrating weekly game of Spot the Difference, but I agree with @olivececile:disqus that I'd