I stuck it out through the first season; based on that, I have no intention of watching future seasons. I could always change my mind, if the show becomes something I’d actually want to watch. I had two big problems with it:

I think I was mostly reacting to the realization that A Bigger Bang is almost 20 years old. And yes, Macca deserves credit.  Would that I could be that vital at 80.  Or that rich.  The two being likely related.  

let’s pretend it was some kind of avant garde masterpiece instead of just mediocre

That’s a big Twinkie.

I’ll also add in, “Tell him about the Twinkie.”

I sincerely hope the Stranger Things spin-off is Maya Hawke and the stoner pizza dude delivering pizzas and getting into weird adventures. Make it a monster-of-the-week and Im there.

Agreed.

Right. “I love this town” isn’t even in the top 20 best lines of the movie. Yours is good.  I was thinking “I’ve seen shit that’ll turn you white!”  It’s not even the line itself, but his delivery.

Winston was by far the most relatable character in the first film.

Heck, he even gets one of the best lines in the movie (“Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!”).

I don’t think Luke is quite the same situation. By the end of Jedi, Luke isn’t the naive, hopeful young man he was at the end of ANH. But he also wasn’t a grumpy old curmudgeon. He’s gotten close enough to darkness to understand why it’s so dangerous, but remains on the side of the light.

I’ve been enjoying guessing what method of suicide the featured actor will use in each episode. So far it’s been bombs, pills, and self-inflected gunshot wound. I’m assuming next week they find Joel’s brother who promptly jumps off a bridge.

Aimee Man was so hilarious in Portlandia. And of course, Buffy.

You must have watched something else last night

There was this issue. The url was going to a 404. AV Club fixed it. It was nice to see. 

I’d say Easy A comes closest. I think Booksmart is probably the better movie, but it just doesn’t really hit as a “high school movie.” It’s too... nice? Back in my day, teenagers’ anxiety came from internal AND external forces, not just your own neuroses. Every high school movie needs a bully or some real conflict or…

There’s an age thing happening here where people Seth’s age (me) remember when comedies were huge box office successes, and Superbad probably is the last HS movie to fit that description. A movie like Book Smart can be great, but it made $25MM at the box office, so to us olds might as well have left no cultural…

Modern American conservatives are the softest, most frightened little baby-brained delicate snowflakes to ever live, prove me wrong.

That what they say. But when they played his skeleton like a xylophone, they strike the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something?