Jesus fuck, Black Dynamite is so good. The fact that it barely drew an audience is an outright crime.

It really is an absurd and meticulous love letter to the whole blaxploitation genre, and even all the companion stuff (see YouTube) is hilarious.

“You look like a boat dock come to life” finishes in a dead heat with “I can read people like a deck of cards, and you are the Q of Clovers.”

Those socks, man. Whenever I see someone with the high socks, I always say, “Just like Kerry Kittles, huh?”

Nowadays, I usually just get back, “Who’s Kerry Kittles,” but still, I remember. Dammit, I remember!

Time’s the biggest constraint of all. If HBO had five more seasons, we could continue with the court intrigues and the minutiae and the almost absurdly slow burn that we saw early in the series.

But fuck, man—there’s half a season left and we really do have to get to the fireworks factory. Yes, some of this feels like…

Surprised that Arrested Development’s strain wasn’t Afternoon Delight.

Always fun to hear Terry Funk’s voice in your head when you’re reading his quotes.

Don’t overestimate Team Trump. These days, I’m often finding that whenever I think, “No, they couldn’t be that dumb,” they are, in fact, that dumb.

Redbelt is tremendously underrated. It’s always fun hearing Mamet’s dialogue, and even moreso from actors who don’t seem to force it. Plus, Chiwetel Ejiofor is good in everything.

You know it’s a great action scene (talking about the Ip Man scene) when a guy gets kneed in the face and then thrown thirty feet and all you can think is, “Well, he got off easy.”

Got a feeling Elektra’s saved him—because she’s all diesel and stuff and hey, that’s just the sort of thing she’d do—and then bolted.

Right there with you, Lauren.

First thing I thought when I saw the seeding:
“Looks like United’s getting their typical draw.”

They couldn’t quite tie off the story, could they?

Cool idea to have Matt sacrifice himself by keeping Elektra busy.
Not so cool to have them undo it all at the end of the episode.

Again, the MacGuffin: what’s the stuff that makes the Hand immortal?
The bones of the dragon? And did anybody get any of it down there?

Eps…

Barcelona’s spent so many years undermining other teams with general transfer skullduggery/tapping up/conducting transfers through the press that I’m pretty much physically incapable of feeling pity for them.

This is just a raging herd of karmic chickens coming home to roost. Sucks that Messi has to get swept up in…

Feel like we’d have to throw Gabriel/Claudia in there, too.

Definitely.

Enough to make you think, “Are you SURE he worked for the Patriots? Nah, couldn’t be.”

That's what pisses me off. Eps 3,4, and 5 are legitimately good. Ep 6 is decent. The four mains have good chemistry together, and Weaver, Glenn, and Yung add some gravity to the show.

I literally squealed with joy watching Luke and Danny beat up a boardroom full of corporate ninjas. Mike Colter and Finn Jones have a fun, easy chemistry that gets even better in the next few episodes.

Well played. My swear, not his.

(looks around, gets ready to duck)

Jimmy's new trailer-park friend is ARLO FUCKING GIVENS.
Maybe 2017's not so bad after all.