The gold standard for S&M in mainstream cinema remains the 1999 Korean film “Lies”. Perverse & subversive, bizarre, creepy and often very funny, it made the 2002 American film ‘Secretary’ seem like weak tea in comparison. 50 Shades is just ‘mommy porn’ for suburbanites.

To be fair, a large percentage of Beatles and post-Beatles stuff really was pretentious shit. “Fool on a hill”? Puh-lease! There’s a reason why you never hear them being played anywhere anymore.

Most of our favorite rock tunes were performed in-studio by The Wrecking Crew while the actual band members stood off to the side fretting over how they’re going to have to learn those guitar licks for their tours.

Spike Lee, this is your future in another 24 years. Its a straight line from revolutionary young auteur to crotchety old man. The thing about revolutionaries, after the revolution is over the bomb-throwers are inevitably considered an embarrassment to the new regime that they helped install.

As cheesy and ethically suspect as some of this stuff may be, its better summer TV than watching former Trump aide Omarosa showering for the camera in ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.

My takeaway from that picture is some people you really shouldn’t force into displaying cleavage. It looks.. inhumane.

I can imagine the voice-over:

My joke is they’d still be nominating ‘30 Rock’ if they could, though the show’s been off the air for five years.

Gotta admit, I prefer this to superhero movies.

Bloom said awhile back something like ‘If they don’t renew us for season 4 I’m going to look like an asshole.” Which I interpret as them definitely not tying up the storyline at season finale. More likely a gasp-inducing clfffhanger like end of season 1. If they get a renewal it’ll be due to the widespread press…

Indian women are dismissed as unattractive while worshiping white women? Uhhhh... okay. This news is going to upset Priyanka Chopra, I’m sure.

Funny how when you pork a porn star one year into your marriage people mock you for it.

Huh? We’re supposed to bow down to the idiot king? Hell NO!

Sell it Randall, SELL IT!

At this point it seems the whole family is just waiting patiently for the eventual reading of the will, like something from that Billy Crystal TV show ‘Soap’. She’s probably is frightened to leave Barron to Trump’s tender mercies.

Are we to assume from this she didn’t actually know he was banging a porn star one year into their marriage? Or is the public revelation of it just too humiliating? Trump is what I imagine Christian Grey will be like at age 71. A vain, fat, aging letch.

This episode reminded me of the a line from a R. Bloom song last summer: “How much boob is too much boob?” Her dress necklines have gone from a pleasant diversion to a distraction. Watching a serious heartfelt scene... very emotional... oh wow, look at that cleavage! No no no! Don’t look, must pay attention to the…

I was reminded of episode 102, Valencia saying she had no women friends while cuddling on the couch with Rebecca, toes-under-the-warm-butt. If Rebecca hadn’t jumped the gun that episode that relationship might’ve eventually gone somewhere. V has a strong need for female peer validation. The more she got into her ‘girl…

If you want to ugly-cry at a TV series, hunt down the recent Korean comedy “I’m Not A Robot”. It’s a light comedy that halfway through turns into emotional torture porn.

I do feel a bit sorry for Vinny/Josh, to have his role so drastically downgraded that he went from second lead (pretty much) to little more than a background player. It gives us an inkling of what Santino/Greg’s fate would have been if he had stayed after they burned through his story arc. The show’s running gag was…