You're right. I have no doubt that Oleg needs to be in Moscow to deliver on some huge aspect of the final season (probably involving a defection or something).

Change your sausage. Change your life.

I keep thinking Mahal should play it more as an upper-class Alberto Del Rio-type character, sort of the mogul with wealth and class instead of (as you mention) yelling and roaring all the time. And I like your meta twist on his heel rationale.

I feel like the show needs to find a way to get Oleg involved in something important again. Don't get me wrong, Costa Ronin is incredibly watchable no matter what he's doing, but Oleg being in Russia chasing down corrupt-ish food suppliers has gone precisely nowhere, IMO. I'm not sure losing a POV at the Rezidentura…

Pasha's going to end up killing himself, and that's gonna push Phillip over the edge. Calling it now.

I mean, there's literally no point in making this as a movie if you can't license the music, right? Not that it wouldn't be a compelling story in and of itself, but it seems like it would be a larger-than-normal elephant in the room in this case.

If history has taught us anything, it's that Madonna not being involved with your movie is probably a good thing.

Rediscovering NPR over the last few years, Siegel was one of my favorite commentators, with a voice like a smooth scotch on the rocks. The rest of them I find pretty interchangeable, with the exception of Kelly McEvers, Audie Cornish, and some guy named Ed who reports in on big stories from Texas (he sounds like he…

I know two seconds of Googling would have cleared this up, but A) I swear I always thought his name was Ira Plato, and B) I choose to believe he looks like a thinner, nerdier version of J.J. Abrams.

“Idaho Yogurt Maker Caught Important Migrant Rapists”

Ever since the country collectively decided that 2+2 = 5, I've had to regularly get my jaw re-wired because the frequency of the drops has increased a hundredfold.

Oh, God yes - Black Crowes were absolutely in the mix too. All I need is a "Remedy", indeed. (Although to be fair, I could actually stand a lot of Crowes' stuff, as opposed to SD/GB.)

Could be worse, you could have lived through the Spin Doctors/Gin Blossoms College Dorm Domination era.

Well, based on that "12 Nights" album from a few years ago which I think was recorded at one of those MSG concerts, I can't blame people. That's a great album, with Joel really sounding engaged and lively, and giving a shit about entertaining people. I'd probably check him out once or twice a year if I lived in the…

I for one look forward to the inevitable 2-hour film where all the Colonels in the KFC Cinematic Universe join forces together to try and figure out how to stop the universal appeal of Popeye's red beans and rice.

Wait, when did we decide that <i>Doctor Strange</i>‘s cinematic origin story was a “problem area” that needed to be done better and more interestingly (again, setting aside the question of diversity as you say)?

Once again a blah property gets optioned and meanwhile I'm STILL over here waiting for an Asimov anthology series.

All I can remember about License to Kill is that it had sharks, Gladys Knight, and Wayne Newton.

Excellent O'Neal work as usual, but the single best part was the photo credit: "@JakeTapper/Hell".

Ye Gods, glad I bailed. The only things I remember are the constant self-pitying of the three leads, one of them turned into a wolf god (or something?), and a seemed-like-an-interesting-take-at-the-time magic system where females could use it and the males went mad or decayed or something. Also, something about a…