There are so many geek-out moments in the Marvel flicks, but the airport fight might be the biggest for me.

First, we get Spider-Man as we know and love him.

Second, there are so many great line readings. From Bucky’s annoyed “You couldn’t have done that earlier?” to Clint’s “Made you look” to Tony’s dry “OK, does…

Is the series set in Harlan County?

At least they nailed him in Age of Ultron and Civil War.

Underpowered, outgunned, but always living on his wits.

Jesus, that’s the one good thing Rahm did as mayor.

“This city rejected you. It beat you. I BEAT YOU.”

That was cathartic. Watching Matt reject the Devil side of himself and embrace being Matt Murdock, mercifully, finally, was the right call. 

Watching Boban play is like watching that one freakishly tall kid in your 8-year-old nephew’s league, only, you know, juxtaposed to the NBA.

It’s awkward and weird and you kinda feel like it shouldn’t be happening, but you enjoy it nonetheless.

Would “sacrificing yourself and your know-it-all (not a) robot so that four humans could have a chance at a better life” be worth a lot of points in Good Place metrics?

Asking for a friend.

The Breakfast Club really depends on when you watch it.

You see it at 13: “It’s like someone put my life on film.”
You see it at 22: “A little corny, but it holds up.”
You see it at 30: “Jesus, shut the fuck up already.”

It’s not just you. Promise.

I could go on and on about this show, but the casting and the characters are really what stick with me.

These are people you know.
Not just people on a TV show, but people you know somewhere in real life.
And the writers and actors give them motivations and relationships and hardships that you might have had yourself.

Wh…

He goes by many names: Gary...Captain...that’s it, I guess.

It’s exceedingly rare and unbelievably satisfying to see a show devote this much time and thought to its characters.

Dud, Liz, Ernie, Blaise, Connie, Scott, Larry, the Captain, Jocelyn...they all have their own fully fleshed-out motivations, and it was so rewarding to see those on display last night.

We didn’t get the…

Between this and The Good Place, it’s definitely a Golden Age for weird metaphysical comedies.

(And I mean that as a compliment.)

I loved how David used Rick Jones as his personal avatar of just how ridiculous comics could be.

Professor Hulk was a good attempt to take the Hulk in a different direction after 350 issues. And nobody writes the character like Peter David, so I don’t quite get the snark either.

And they’d done pretty much everything they could with Hal Jordan, so why not give him a heel turn? They even gave Hal the Magneto…

True. Kavanaugh exists to justify all the myopic, petty, zero-sum, this’ll-really-stick-it-to-the-libs initiatives that have blown up in their faces. Pulling his nomination or nominating someone else is implicitly admitting that those were failures.

See this re: the “You shouldn’t make $15/hour doing (menial task)!
(I/my buddy/Jim Bob down the street) doesn’t make that much, and he’s a (paramedic/soldier/nuclear safety technician)” crowd.

Don’t ask why they make that much.
Ask why you, your buddy, or Jim Bob down the street aren’t making more.

You know, Halt and Catch Fire had dirt ratings for its entire run on AMC and they still made it to four seasons and a particularly satisfying ending. It’s OK to have a little faith. 

The Incredibles has so many signature moments. Weirdly enough, my favorite is the unadulterated joy on Dash’s face when the bad guys are chasing him and he can finally—after years of being told not to—CUT LOOSE. These powers aren’t always some unbearable burden, after all.

I was hoping The Punisher would go full Ennis,…

Nah. Just means you’d rather see him doing better shows.

(It’s just succeeding in a different fashion.)

Two belly laughs come at the end of the episode. And the “racist antelope” sign and callback was pretty good.

Not the greatest pilot ever, but definitely good enough to make me want to see what happens next.