It must be pretty hard to maintain the “ha ha, sportsball, right?” tone while reporting on a well-liked and highly viewed sports broadcast.

This is both a valid point, and a misinterpretation of what Anderson Cooper said. I think he meant that after the armed invasion of the US Capitol, these folks would be going back to extremely normal experiences like eating at an Olive Garden and staying at a Holiday Inn as though they hadn’t committed acts of extreme…

Olive Garden is neither as bad as the decades of jokes would suggest, nor particularly good in any way.

Too many people were too willing to believe, and too many people don’t realize that “vicious” is not spelled “viscous”.

Discovery had to jump away from the planet because their shields were failing as soon as they showed up to drop off the away team.

I think there’s a reference in this season to the Romulans just plain joining the Federation sometime between their supernova and the Burn. That would probably moot the treaty.

I’m an easy touch for Discovery, but this was dire. We didn’t need what felt like dozens of OH DAMN CLAPBACK KWEEN reaction shots to Tilly’s bantering, and we definitely didn’t need the away team to recount the entire story 2/3 of the way through. And I just can't get into the puppy dog teenagers stumbling through…

Maybe clean up the fucking trash once in awhile?

He was probably wired the whole time.

This is nonsense. He just gave an A-minus to an episode of this very show a few weeks ago. There’s no need to be that sensitive. And do you want him to hate the show or not? Pick a side.

I bet you have a really weak stomach. Get car-sick a lot, afraid of rollercoasters, etc.

It’s not the critic's job to gush over the show or to have some fanboy circlejerk with you. There are plenty of places you can go for that. Critics are supposed to provide an honest, thoughtful assessment.

Also in the grandest Trek tradition, it was practically a bottle episode.

My heart has always been in the right place, says infamous white savior (Siavior?)

There’s still a straight white man in the main cast, but it's Doug Jones and he's under makeup playing an alien. Don't shit your pants.

I don’t give a shit about any of those things in a late night host. He's not my parish priest. Just be funny, and preferably not the kind of funny your grandma likes.

Did she blame Russia for it?

You mean like parties where people watch Food Network and read Alton Brown tweets out loud? Sign me up, grandma!

I shudder to contemplate the mind that would think any of that was funny.

Middle age, following as it does young age and preceding old age, starts at about 30 unless you think you’ll live to 120.