Between The Good Place and this show, NBC has pretty much locked down the much coveted Philosophy Geek demographic.

All things considered, the lower quality coverage doesn’t look that bad.

Dang, that’s a deep cut.

Though I agree the nerd jokes weren’t great, it was nice to see an NYC landmark represented on the show. The Music Inn is a real and legendary spot!

I agree with your thoughts on Marat entirely. Dinara was a different case. She didn’t have the pure talent of her brother. If I recall, she was a hard working grinder who probably overachieved her way into a brief run at #1. In a sense, she was the mirror opposite of her brother.

My official response to that volley is DANNNGGGGG!!!

I think the theme song might have been a big reason why Don’t Trust the B didn’t find an audience. It was so annoying, and so different in tone from the show, which was brilliant.

Looking forward to checking this out. Their song “Help” was one of my favorites of 2015:

I recall a match last year in which Arriola and Wood were joined on the pitch by American defender Timothy Ream. Suffice to say, the commentary for that match was NSFW.

Speaking of actors who look annoyingly like other actors, does anybody else think the guy playing Black Bolt is a Jim Caviezel clone? Certainly seems to have the same range of facial expressions...

This was just an astonishing episode of TV. How do you fit that many jokes and that much plot into an episode and have it all work?

Hackman’s new album is amazing. Brutal lyrics, hooky melodies, psychosexual drama.

Can I ask why a show that is, at some fundamental level, a Star Trek spoof can exist comfortably on broadcast TV, but an actual, much anticipated new Star Trek series has to be relegated to a streaming service nobody subscribes to?

Yeah, I’m hoping they can bring back some of the navigational features of the old TV Club. This isn’t ideal.

Jeez. I hadn't made that connection before, but yeah, it's a suspiciously similar groove.

A noteworthy album on the list is Robyn's teenage debut, "Robyn Is Here". Though Robyn wouldn't come into her own as the genre-bending, inventive artist we know today for a number of years, "Robyn Is Here" was still an excellent pop album for its time. "Show Me Love" and "Do You Know (What It Takes)" are killer…

I'm rather fond of Stevie Wonder's harmonica solo on Eurythmics "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart".

Oh yeah, forgot about that show. It was fun in a "turn off your brain's logic function prior to viewing" sort of way.

They spent decades disguising lazy equivocation and political nihilism as "satire". Now that the inevitable result of their efforts has become real, they're taking their ball and going home. Color me unsurprised.

I don't know what sort of blackmail fodder this Alex O'loughlin guy has on CBS execs. He was in two terrible shows on CBS before this one. Once as a Sexy Vampire, once as a Sexy Doctor. Then finally, they put him in this garbage, which somehow lasts 8 seasons?