The show gets ridiculed a lot - rightfully so, in most cases - but damn if John Ritter doesn't put on a sitcom clinic in nearly every episode. The man was born to do this - a shame he's not still around.

As good as Suchet was, I give a lot of credit also to Hugh Fraser for his thankless role as Captain Hastings. It's the less showy role, but no less important in keeping the tone of the originals fairly intact, if not the plots. The series became noticeably darker and less fun in the later years without Fraser around.

OKAY? YOU'VE GOTTA ADMIT THAT YOU'RE NOT HERE FOR THE HALF PRICE APPETIZERS, OKAY? YOU'RE HERE FOR THE TEQUILA SHOOTERS, WHEN YOU OUGHTA BE HOME WITH YOUR KID, RIGHT?

Excellent point.

Thank you!

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE: Help!

Wow, teaching himself not to look… that is… huh. Pretty much the problem in a nutshell.

Dammit, now I'm back to missing Luck all over again.

Byrne is terrific, and really elevates The Usual Suspects - it's a good script, but Byrne invests Dean Keaton with a soul and a conscience that gives the movie a real center.

The quote marks around the word "friendly" continue to irritate and fascinate me in equal measure.

Astonishingly, it's Euchre. I was introduced to it in college, and it's been my go-to quick card game that can be played over and over again without feeling like a slog (like Hearts tends to devolve into).

I for one find it hilarious that they got this far before they realized that maybe audiences would like to see interactions between lead characters.

I wish they would stop giving me cautious optimism for what is almost unquestionably a bad idea. I'm running out of reasons to not think this might be okay.

BINGO.

Regardless of the overall quality (I haven’t read the book), having “White St.” on the cover is about as hamfistedly obvious as you can get. Hope for nuance is not high based on that alone.

I get laughed at for saying this, but I think his one of his best roles was actually on Seinfeld - he brought an honest to god character to Russell Dalrymple and was one of the few recurring characters I actually felt empathy for.

At the very least, they should have kept his pissed-off Captain from Star Trek III as a recurring Starfleet character, constantly shaking his fist Col. Klink-style and shouting "Kiiiiiiirk!"

Agreed, and it'll remind you how badly we need more actors like Peter Boyle, too.

How great is Bob Balaban in this? Answer: very. The real soul of the movie, IMO.

I'll cop to thinking that line was "I've gotta get a third degree". Like she was either too severely undereducated to understand the world around her or she was a big fan of intense questioning.