I’m not sure turning Kara into Season Three Barry Allen is such a great idea. Why do these shows insist on making anyone fun and joyful into mopey jerks?

My only substantive disagreement with the review is that by framing Kara’s troubles entirely through the lens of losing Mon-El, they are once again prioritizing…

After loving the propulsive world-building of the first two installments, a slow-down was probably inevitable, but I agree with the reviewer that this was a more lurching stop than I would have guessed. The Klingon scenes take up little eternities (would it really be so bad if they just talked faster?), and I really…

“He did a ton wrong.” had me laugh/crying, same as the characters.

I don’t think I’ve ever cried this much over an episode of television in my life. What an absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking hour. For me, what got me wasn’t the idea of Gordon being gone, but seeing how much everyone loved him and was lost trying to recontextualize the world without him in it. Pretty much…

A friend and I once listened to Full Moon Fever on repeat for a six hour road trip, because it was the one album we both liked that was handy. He was super into metal and I was into classic rock and alternative stuff. We both sang joyously along for a huge amount of that trip.

“American Girl” never even charted, and it’s one of his most ubiquitous “hits.” He truly had an unparalleled space in music, where even the definition of a hit was fungible. And, yeah, right up to the end, he was still consistently great. That’s the kind of career that’s not even once a generation. There’s just him,…

Fivethirtyeight published a chart recently that has him as the fifth most-played artist on radio, responsible for roughly one out of every 40 songs. That he has that honor without being divisive among music fans, and also somehow never had a #1 album on Billboard until 2014 says so much about how we accepted his…

So very sad. He’s meant the world to me for as long as I can remember, and his songs have soundtracked my life. The Full Moon Fever album was the only album all of my friends could agree upon for car trips. We all liked very different things, and we all liked Tom Petty.

Here’s one of his songs that I adore, off of his…

I thought Angel Olsen’s new one was out in October as well. Hmm.

Still, looks like a pretty ridiculous month for new music. I can’t recall the last time I was looking forward to a new album which will feature a great song from two years ago. I hope the Beck is worth the wait.

Yeah. I still love a lot of her music, but I really miss the relatively unadorned version of herself from that fantastic first album, which is still my favorite of hers by a pretty wide margin.

That’s good to hear. I thought I had heard that JB died a few years back, so I figured it was gone.

Agreed, and also the show just looked better. They had to keep some of the aesthetic established by the other Netflix shows.

Curious if you guys think it’s worth backtracking to watch the previous seasons, or if one could jump in with this season and fill in the rest later? Given how most of the new shows look this year, I’m likely to want some new shows to watch, and the review makes this seem like one I might enjoy. I know I watched a few…

From how he was presented onscreen, I certainly was given the impression that he has powers. Specifically, his ability to run scenarios and predict outcomes and probabilities seemed to be his power. I would not have gotten that impression if they didn’t keep showing his process graphically, but the way they showed it…

I said more or less the same thing in my comment about this show. In any other show, this kind of weirdly feudal caste system/monarchy would be what the protagonists are fighting to destroy.

This was substantially worse than I had expected, even given the reviews. So many baffling choices. Just off the top of my head: Making Ken Jeung boring; having the “heroes” be active proponents of a sort of feudal system that seems quite oppressive; two shitty covers of iconic songs in back-to-back scenes; every…

I’m assuming the footage from 1992 is from a Chicago show called JBTV, which featured music (often live shows recorded at Cabaret Metro [now just Metro], a few blocks from Wrigley Field) and interviews with alternative bands back in the day. I had a VHS cassette which featured that episode and a few others, because…

The alternate headline Ms. Chavez posted to Twitter (“Tiiiiiiin Star. Rusted.”) summed up my feelings on the first two episodes pretty well. From the mishandled opening sequence to the wasted talents of the pretty overqualified cast, it felt a lot like Hand of God, another show that I wanted to like and just...didn’t.

I’m getting very sick of people delineating what does and does not constitute an “actual fan.” It’s a cheap way to dismiss the opinions of people who don’t like the same stuff you do, or like different aspects of the same things. Also, there’s no need to put the word “professional” in quotes, as the reviewers on this…

I still find the show mostly kind of boring. The jokes (when they appear) never seem to land and feel out of place, and MacFarlane’s obsession with current and recent American pop culture makes absolutely no sense in the context of this show. I wanted to like this, and I may give it a couple more episodes to see if it…