I remember watching the first trailers for the first Despicable Me movie, and thinking it was genuinely intriguing. They really emphasized the cathartic nature of Gru being this uncaring jackass who used super science to get whatever he wanted. Does anyone else remember the sinister way Steve Carell recited the…

All he's doing is reaffirming his support for the ideas he shouts at people. What does it matter who says them? As long as they perpetuate the worldview that benefits his image and reputation, all are equal in the eyes of the Trump.

Nothing Donald Trump does can surprise me anymore. All it does is reaffirm how perfectly he matches his own prototypical caricature.

I wonder what frightened him as a kid…

I mean, I'm excited to see Ahsoka Tano in something. She's one of my favorite Swar Tars characters.
The animation looks pretty cheap, clean, and unimaginative, so we can't anticipate anything resembling Tartakovsky's clone wars series, but maybe it'll still surprise us.

I was disappointed with the cheesy melodramatic ending. Frank once again comes to the realization that his wife is important to him and admits he was wrong as he's held at gunpoint. Come on, really? The stakes of this show have never relied on such manipulative and unrealistic scenarios before, and the whole thing…

When Jim Carrey was given the role of the Grinch, he had to be trained under a program designed to help CIA operatives endure torture, just to survive the incredible toll it took to be encased in that costume every day. Regardless of the quality of the final movie, his ability to undergo such an intensive…

In regards to the shallow extras in this show, I think it might be intentional. The main cast of the Murphy's has so much going on in every episode, where even the tired tropes of angry dad, disillusioned teenager in a garage band, and babied daughter who doesn't like girly things are able to be molded into…

Got it

Sorry, I assumed you binged it like I did. That's my bad. Also that interpretation makes sense. It just didn't add up for me while I was watching it. Shame spiral is a good term for it though

Alright, now that I've actually seen the movie I can safely say: that was pretty much the best kind of adaptation I could've hoped for.

Hey fair enough. That all makes sense to me, but my issue with it isn't that it can't be justified, it's that the justification feels comparatively unsubstantial. Now, I get why he didn't want to go through unemployment. I get why he didn't initially want the job through his friend, and I get why he went for it…

Yeah, I agree. One of the major strengths I gave this show credit for in the first season is getting me into the headspace of the prototypical asshole dad who in so many other stories would be the undeveloped villain of someone else's tale.

I'm not personally upset at Maher for saying the n-word, but for how polarizing and impactful the word is, he sure chose an awfully lazy way to just throw it into the conversation. The premise of the joke was simple, "What, you expect me to work outside? What do you think I am a slave?" as a sort of self-admittance…

They've done more with her this season than last season. I'm guessing if they get picked up for a third, she'll have even more to do, and they'll keep exploring her desire to break the mold set out for her. I do like her more now that she's not just the spoiled kid who gets away with everything while Bill is blamed…

This was an interesting episode. The dynamic of the outside world bearing down on the Murphy's felt a little shaky, and some of conflict was bizarrely hackneyed compared to previous episodes.

I watched the rest of this season after leaving a comment on the first episode's review. It's not Bojack Horseman brilliant, but it does offer an outlook and identity that I think is valuable in it's defiance to the more comfortable moral backbone that so many sitcoms, dramatic or not, fall back on.

When I first saw the trailer for this, I was surprised how genuinely excited I was to see Captain Underpants being given the big-screen treatment. I'd say that Dav Pilkey's first major series was a formative part of my childhood, and a real gem of the children's literature world. There's something very, "Ah fuck it,…

My immediate takeaway from this new season is how real the stakes feel. As soon as they said they were going sledding my mind went immediately to dad mode. I started thinking of every fucking thing that could go wrong and all the ways those kids were gonna fuckin' kill themselves. I've never been responsible for…

The noose forms a mouth and keeps spitting him out because he's dirty. So he has to take a bath, but the bathtub spits him out too. That's why he's trying to kill himself. The world is alive and constantly rejecting him.