I watched the first episode, and it kind of felt like Mel Gibson trying to direct a serious version of Portlandia. The kids’ personality traits are just comically overblown. It’s like bad drama club TV with an HBO budget. It was both cheesy and reeked of self-importance. I suspect it may go the route of John from…

Maybe toss in a virtually laughless self-created game show sketch about dealing with Trump to bump it up to a B+? You are correct, the grades definitely do seem intertwined with the wokeness level of the episode. The reviews really overanalyze this content as well.

A sequel sketch where a bunch of TV critics try to figure-out a way to address the Aziz sketch would be very entertaining. It’s funny how people try to dance around this conversation no matter what the forum is. I think SNL was pretty clever with how they addressed this. It was definitely a knock on the new social…

That Chastain episode review was the worst. There was all sorts of Dead air during that episode. It was nowhere near a B+.

He reached his “YOUR BOY” quota years ago. Always liked Kornheiser though, and people absolutely hated that guy on MNF. I think he did okay, but PTI is a perfect fit for him. I just never watch it these days.

A+ tribute. Never a huge fan, but I followed the bands maneuvers throughout the years. It did seem like he had a bit of Keith Richards-style invincibility inside of him. Sad, and genuinely surprised he had passed. I think it’s good to have guys like him around. That line about him and his grandmother playing the…

And the cool host tried her hardest! These grades are just off the wall. It’s as if humor plays no part in this show’s quality. It’s more about how the material treats social issues, and how those decisions are either right or wrong. Never forget, objective number one for this show should always be to get laughs, and…

C+ at best. Car Hunk was pretty disposable. Chad was laughless crap. The Fresh Prince spoof got very good at the very end. Amazon skit was a snooze. What Even Matters Anymore? was interesting but really should have delivered some big laughs with how great the premise was. Cold open was a letdown as well with great…

Far too twee for me in the past, so mixing up their attack is a good plan in my book. For me, their older stuff is both meticulously crafted and easily forgettable. I drink plenty of cups of tea, just not that one.

Good call. Those were definitely the best two from the night.

Thee dog-man sketch was better than Kenan’s Lavar Ball, and Kenan’s Lavar Ball was great.

Same. I thought it was an easy B+ overall. I have found that the episodes I like aren’t in sync at all with the episodes that this reviewer enjoys.

That sketch was seriously a riot. The shots of the dog in the background were just killing me. This sketch and the one with the male porn star were both great.

A large chunk of Update was dedicated to Lavar Ball which is a huge (unfortunately) sports topic right now. And Kenan did a great job playing Ball as well.

Season 2 took the weirdness and insanity to a very weird and insane level. I dug it, but it definitely wasn’t a binge. I took all of them in over a couple of months. Super original and creative, but definitely a bit adrift as well. I think season one had more solid jokes, even though bowl-aoke totally killed me. I…

The feature involving the writer who was making omelettes with the racist sorority was fascinating.

If it wasn’t for Guided By Voices, Robyn Hitchcock, Stephen Malkmus, and OFF! I would probably buy into this argument. More and more songwriters are putting out great songs well into (dare I say it) their 60s these days. It also seems as if artists don’t even start to write quality songs until their 30s these days.

Interesting observation, and a quite true one at that.

Most of these bands were just disposable alternative radio filler to start with. The biggest flaw most of the 2000s indie-rockers had was the lack of rocking. It was all too clean, orchestrated and Poppy. The 80s and 90s indie-rockers all borrowed more heavily from The Beatles, Stones, The Who and Sabbath and usually…

I always thought watching unboxing videos on YouTube was the weirdest modern way to burn time, but reading random episode reviews of a long-running television program that you have somehow never seen an episode of may just top that.