‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ finally gave me an episode I actually enjoyed. I had started to worry after episode 1 and 2 of the current season.

If you’re a past viewer and contemplating returning I’d say skip the first two episodes and consider this one the season premier. 

What’s the opposite of ‘liberal’, ‘Fascist’?

I (distantly) recall the sad final year of the Jack Benny show in 1965 they changed the iconic character of Rochester from Benny’s ‘colored’ manservant to just a guy that Benny exchanged barbs with. They did it with the best of intentions, considering that Rochester was a very problematic stereotypical character, and…

Is that a photo of the actor Yoo Ah-in in the photo? Recently he starred in the wildly popular and critically acclaimed Korean series ‘Chicago Typewriter’, and before that the highly praised 2014 series ‘Secret Affair’. American audiences, watching Koreans films, often don’t realize when they’re watching major…

Back in my younger days it was commonly known that some young women get turned on by the ‘bad boy’ persona. But this was back before the word ‘bad’ had taken on it current alarming connotation. ‘Bad boys’ back then didn’t march under Nazi flags, didn’t spew open race hate and didn’t advocate installing tyranny in…

There is no such person named ‘Kayne West’ so please stop posting stories about him. His new name is apparently ‘Ye’? ‘Yi’?. I don’t know if his first or last name and frankly I don’t care.

I can attest to several of those based on their frequent occurrence in K-dramas. Especially ‘hangover medicine’, the ‘cider’-sprite and I saw banana milk mentioned once. I’ve seen them buying canned coffee too. The usual coffee ordered at cafes in K-dramas is ‘coffee Americano’.

Any podcast awards that doesn’t include “My Dad Wrote a Porno” is rigged.

I’m tired of the superhero (or just hero) moral dilemma of whether to torture or kill for the ‘greater good’. We’ve seen it a million times and that dead fish trope is not getting any fresher. I mean, I appreciated the concept the first dozen times I saw it, but the next fifty times after that not so much. The trope…

As an aside, over the weekend I was watching the 2014 Korean workplace series ‘Misaeng (incomplete life)’ when I caught a background tune being played in a scene with a young intern going to work. It was totally Heather’s “What will the future hold? what will tomorrow bring me?” graduation song from last season. The…

Tell me Riverdale, are YOU going to have a scene with one of your characters jerking off to gay porn, too? CxGF throws down the gauntlet!

Let me think. Good Korean TV

Korean name for the scenes was ‘My Ajusshi’, awkward translation ‘My Mister’.

This may be off topic, but Warner Bros. just this week murdered their recently acquired property, the Asian television streaming site ‘Drama Fever’. They shut it down without warning or credible explanation.

Jokes are like superhero movies. Ideally their purpose should be as commentary on issues related to the wider world. Making them self-referential and inward looking is defeatist. You’ve given up your role as social critic. You’re no longer a mirror held up to society.

‘CBS all access’ is another term for ‘will never watch it’.

I used to work at a Boston advertising agency and it seemed the more ‘hip’ the management was the more they expected the workforce to follow after them like a cult. Put in a beer-dispensing vending machine and a pinball machine in the lobby to show how cool you are and expect the underlings to work 90 hours a week on…

Do not discount PR firms paying people to be ‘Depp defenders’ on comments boards when stories such as this pop up. I recall that being a ‘Michael Jackson defender’ online was a veritable cottage industry.

Because Johnny Depp has been part of American pop culture, for better or worse, for thirty four years.