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The opening of Elvis Costello’s first album, My Aim is True. ‘Welcome to the Working Week.’ The lone vocal that speeds up and crescendos (an early Costello trademark, to be sure) grabs you by the teenage angst and doesn’t let go. ‘Now that you’re picture’s in the paper being rhythmically admired/And you can have

“That is not what rape victims do.”

Callen categorically denied all the allegations with a statement to The Times, citing “cancel culture”

Protip: if you think “colored” is an ok term to use in 2020, you probably aren’t qualified to be in any serious discussion about race.

In an ideal world, it doesn't matter. But we don't live in an ideal world, so having voice actors reflect the race of their characters matters entirely because it creates opportunities for those actors.

I disagree with you, because I think we’re reached this point in the conversation for a reason. But, apart from that I’d rather go to the vicious cycle point: there’s no asian star in the states big enough to open Ghost in the Machine so they hire ScarJo...so then there’s no asian star in the states big enough to open

In some alternate universe of television, chemical genius Bryan Cranston faces off with drug kingpin/poutine fast food magnate Alex Trebek.

I was a big fan of Classic Concentration when I was a kid, and as an adult, I’ve followed Jeopardy! closely for months at a time on several occasions — and I genuinely do think it’s a terrific format — but even now, I sometimes have a hard time understanding the love for Trebek. Granted, he’s better than Sajak, but...

True, although Connections was also fairly science/technology focused — it was more history of science rather than history-history about kings and battles and the like.

I’ll be honest, I was kind of hoping this was going to be a Connections reboot. I haven’t been this disappointed since I learned that Anvil! : the Story of Anvil was not a documentary about blacksmithing.

About halfway through Connected, it degenerates in to a slap fight between Latif Nasser and Connections’ host, the now 83 year old James Burke.

Look, whenever a piece of criticism mentions parenthood, and you’re not a parent or a mother or whatever everyone gets upset about these days, just imagine the biggest poop you ever took and think of what it would mean to keep that poop in your house for 20 years, feeding it poop food and paying for its poop school

Where the fuck is this hostility coming from?

Where the fuck is this hostility coming from?

Imagine my disappointment when Keene’s speech mirrored almost word for word what my college-educated friends told me this weekend; that they were suspicious of a show like Watchmen because whose agenda is it serving really? idk maybe the agenda of people trying to be more open and empathetic?

Satisfying and hilarious. “It’s tough to be a white man in America” says a US senator planning to run for president. The human eye isn’t capable of rolling hard enough, which is why that line made me laugh...right up until my brain caught up with the fact that his character isn’t a caricature. It’s an accurate

I know she was a baddie as well, but seeing Trieu just completely outthink, outplan and outflank the utterly overmatched Cyclops was extremely satsifying.

great review as usual.

Because Saved By The Bell so accurately captured real life teenagers?