I was crushed when I heard the announcement of Thurgood Marshall's retirement. Later that day I ran into my college's minority affairs officer, a middle-aged African American woman, and broke the news to her. She broke down in tears talking about Marshall and his legacy both before the Court and on the Court. Then…

The 1939 The Wizard of Oz is light years ahead of the various earlier filmed versions but this may fall into the "obvious" category.

Re: Margaret's cute little cat sweaters:

The Jeopardy! Twitter account gave the big buildup to Margaret and her favorite hobbies, salaciously suggesting that the staid librarian was into some borderline sordid activities in her spare time.

She was mentioned; there was a line about not dealing with Beth's "sick German" for another week.

I miss creepy-hot morgue attendant…

I'm not 100% sold on the need to revisit Beth's backstory but I trust the show enough to take on faith that it will pay off over the course of the season. I do feel like the show has to be very careful about what it chooses to insert into continuity via flashback. MK already feels a bit like a "we meant to do that,…

Rizzoli and Iron Isles

Forget Eisenhower, Reagan would be unelectable in today's political climate. Got too soft on guns after almost dying of a gunshot wound, you see.

If you're what a victory for capitalism looks like then I'm rooting for the Commies.

There is no such thing as a terrible clone dance party.

His Bates Motel recaps were equal parts fascinating analysis and exploration of the interior of Jacob's asshole.

There's really not a good comparison there. One of them is a dystopian nightmare hellscape and the other is Wayward Pines.

Yeah, even as a fellow pumpkinhead I was like, enough of this pumpkinhead.

God dammit, the correct critique for Bob is not that Elena outshone him. That bullshit critique has been wrong since it got hauled out for Pandora Boxx in season 2, when being outshone by Mama was the entire fucking point and every judge missed it. It is always wrong.

2 Jungle 2 Book

Same thing happened to me! The manager promised to comp me the next time I drove thru but by the time I did it had turned into a men's big and tall store.

For season 3 she changed her name to "Piz".

She was kind of the worst on Veronica Mars and her story made no sense.

Down by the sea shore?