Ugh, the fact that “Free Churro” lost out to The Simpsons this year in the Emmys is as quietly devastating as anything that’s happened on the show.

Yup. Bojack is one of a few pieces of evidence that most streaming shows don’t benefit from doing the whole “our season is a formless 12-hour movie” thing.

Before each season starts, I think: “Never have I been so eager to let a series of television episodes crush me.”

It’s 16 episodes total: 8 on 10/15, 8 on 1/31.

BoJack Horseman is one of the decade’s very best series, and in my humble opinion, the best show made for a streaming service ever. It’s hilarious, it’s cutting, it’s devastating, it’s hopeful. Since the second half of Season 1, it has almost never put a single foot wrong. It utilizes long-form storytelling well, but…

Really looking forward to this series. I think Bojack Horseman had some of the most incisive writing about mental illness on television. And it’s genuinely startling to see how this show evolved and surprised everyone who had written it off as a “kinda funny, smart-ass celebrity satire with funny talking animals” in…

That’s ALWAYS been Tim Allen’s schtick. There’s just fewer people older than him (and fewer Jonathan Taylor Thomases in his shows) these days, so he’s far less popular.

Most conservatives can’t be funny without being mean-spirited. A few of them can be clever and witty about it, like PJ O’Rourke (which is why he’s the rare Republican panelist on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me), but even his funniest articles are typically scathing. 

Part of me thinks that there must be something I’m missing. Like people on Twitter seem to find this hilarious, so the part of me that wants to be charitable is left thinking that there must be something to it beyond the fact that it is making fun of a liberal.

Remember that overly cocky rich dickhead from high school you still want to punch for constantly saying irritating, wrong, and annoying things? Somebody gave him a TV show.

That was my first thought, but the more I listen to it, the more it sinks in. It really is a beautiful album.

I need to give this album another listen, but I was underwhelmed on my first pass. For more than a few of the songs, it sounds like he’s reciting bad spoken word over his soundtrack music. It’s a little too formless and meandering for my tastes, but maybe it just hasn't clicked for me. 

I love her first three albums, but My Woman just left me completely cold, and Lark really didn’t appeal to me as a single. It’s like she just reached a point where she made a conscious choice to stop making the types of songs I liked her for. 

First song off the album was a 6+ minute slog. I tapped out a couple minutes in. 

I haven’t gotten to the album yet, but I listened to all of the audiobook of Tegan & Sara’s High School, which is great (and includes a bunch of low-quality early recordings of some of the songs they redid for the new album).

I miss Dan Bejar.

and you pulling that quote gives me the notion you are exactly the person it is referring to.  

Highwomen is on repeat for today, because I will consume anything Brandi Carlile.

I appreciate your thoughtful response and retroactively apologize for coming off a bit too snarky.

Edgy