Yeah. It’s hard not to draw comparisons to All in the Family. While that show served to parody the type of conservatism that Trump embodies, its star, Caroll O’Connor was definitely a progressive in real life.

I read the book and the New York Times cover story about that situation. That would be a harrowing series.

True - I’m not saying we don’t need shows where we see wealth on display. Truth be told, it can offer a great deal of escapism for most of our financially-strapped lives. But like income inequality, there definitely is a need out there for more shows for people who are struggling to make ends meet. For all the…

Had a busy week, so the only album I really listened to was John Coltrane’s Black Pearls.

Good lord though, that album has its vocal defenders. For those who absolutely love it, it’s in their ‘Top 20 of all time’ list.

I’m definitely not cool, but after doing more and more adulting stuff (e.g. parsing which paycheck goes to utilities, and which ones goes to mortgage, student loans, and the occasional car bill) - I found myself less and less interested in the Modern Family clan’s problems with their last trip to Italy, or the…

I think it was ABC. I would love to rehire Edie Falco to play the lawyer, who was a fascinating character (reading a true crime anthology right now, and the Menendez article focuses extensively on her). I’m thinking a better script, a bigger budget, and Ryan Murphy would be good, but again, I think it would be like a…

I think Hurricane Katrina would almost be too “big” of a story to do in this format. It’s obvious what happened in that area constitutes a crime, but there were so many crimes - which crime be best to focus on for the series? Ray Nagin is a compelling person to do a character study, but I’m thinking an entire series…

Farewell, American Crime Story, and kudos to Darren Criss for an absolutely terrifying portrayal of Andrew Cunanan. I don’t think this was as stellar as a season as The People Vs. OJ Simpson, mainly because this entire series seems to be anchored by one amazing performance. While the other performances were between…

True. But two people doing a sort of synchronized swim in a giant friggin’ robot just doesn’t really elicit much tension. As a viewer, I was pretty sure they were going to be well protected. They were either going to get killed spectacularly by one of the monsters, or they were going to walk away from said…

I love the fact that despite how many vacation episodes there have been for this show, Modern Family isn’t mentioned in this list.

You give us Battlefield Earth in exchange for removing Batman & Robin and Wild Wild West. The Netflix gods giveth and taketh away.

I like him. He’s a good doctor. Not great. But good.

Here’s an idea as well - Elsa is a strong enough character not to be given a romantic interest so...asexual?

I love Yo La Tengo, but I have so many reservations for them naming their album after such an iconic album, especially with the civil rights-focus on that album. Sort of like if the Arcade Fire’s next album was called What’s Going On. In other releases, Titus Andronicus ... they went from “wow, this is a really big…

It was like Alex’s own double-album magnum opus of paragraph leades.

Alex wins the “news leade paragraph of the day”

It’s more than okay. It’s epic!

I started off loving Modern Family for portraying a fairly realistic look at family dynamics in the 21st century. Then, after the trips, and the out-of-touchness they seem to have in the finance department, it made me realize how in dire need we are of a 2010s version of Roseanne (not just a reboot). The Middle comes…

I finally had the time to listen to Kamasi Washington’s The Epic from front to back.