There is a way to do sexy on the beach and this, uh, was not it a lot of the time. Like, I swear one part is just a close up of wet chiffon. Nikki needed to hire Bey’s director/editor from Drunk in Love to crop out the bad bits.

Maybe it’s just that she’s managed to hang on by her claws in Hollywood despite mediocrity and little success for 15 years, but something about her makes me think she is a stone-cold hustler so the age difference doesn’t even bother me.

Disco won, baby.

The Black Lesbian stuff is at best regrettable but the rest is actually a pretty salient criticism of the BBC.

It’s so fucking frustrating. Monty Python may never have been diverse (apart from Chapman being gay), but their counterculturalism was a risk to the BBC. They were, in some sense, outsiders that a lot of people didn’t want to hear from. Now the BBC is just saying “We still want outsiders, but the definition of who…

That’s what the Brexiteers don’t get. We might have had a thriving economy but we were taking the performance enhancing drug of enslaving and violating the human rights of others on a multi-countrywide scale. That “success” will be harder to replicate in 2018.

Yeahhhh, John Cleese admitted a long time ago that he’s never agreed with Terry Gilliam on anything. I doubt Eric Idle, Terry Jones, or Michael Palin would want to hang with him either.

Gilliam is typically blurgh but I wouldn’t go giving myself kudos points if I was BBC.

cough cough half the people who ran, facilitated, and profited from the east and west india companies?

Saw some preview episodes a few months back. It’s mostly political, with Cohen in character interviewing several very high profile politicians, and some very in-depth trolling of MAGAtards and those who serve the rich and corrupt. It was pretty powerful, with even the weaker characters and bits still making salient…

I’d suggest giving HoD another shot - it’s light and giddy in a uplifting sort of manner & full of relationship drama in a mostly good way. Also, the town square is the same as the one used for Gilmore Girls.

Gilliam’s remarks were bullshit. Particularly the BLT part. I lost some respect for him there. I also liked John Cleese’s response. It seemed to me to be fairly self aware. He used a mild slur to refer to his dead friend Graham Chapman to refer to homophobic discrimination, and to denounce it, not to reinforce it.

“It made me cry: the idea that … no longer six white Oxbridge men can make a comedy show.”

There is a small and important kernel of truth in what Gilliam said, though he said it in the worst possible way. Here’s one potential way he could have said it: “Look, I understand his point and it’s important. Different voices need to be heard in comedy. In fact, that’s the only way comedy will continue to be…

I mean, I love Monty Python to death but even I’ll be the first to admit that some of their sketches aged horribly, particularly the transphobic Lumberjack Song. Comedy is always the first thing to age, hence why some tend to either adapt and the rest just continue with the same schtick like it’s the 70's and blame…

I suspect that you’re not wrong. I mean as much as I did like Fillion in Castle, the other characters also were part of the reason why I kept watching. Plus I feel like getting a long-running show is really a true crapshoot. I mean the fact that Patricia Heaton got 2 family sitcoms in a row that ran as long as they…

Based interviews I’ve seen, it seems like Fillion really really appreciated Castle because it provided job security for nearly a decade. I think the desire to have another multiple-season acting gig at a network that pays decently may be the driving force for this. And he may be thinking (as the network clearly is)…

I hear what you’re saying, but I have to admit there were some decent episodes in seasons 6 and 7. Season 6 finally resolved the death of Becket’s Mom storyline that had been a thing since the first season. I also have a soft spot for season 7's “Time of Our Lives” (Castle finds himself in a parallel universe/dream…

So many people go their whole lives never hearing anything like that from anyone. And there he was, telling us what every kid deserves to hear. And because he knew how important that was. Kids shows need more people like him. Just kind, decent people who take the time to do what’s important.

Better than enough. He liked you. Mister Rogers liked you just the way you were.