I just want this to make a billion dollars so someone will make the animated Nextwave series that lives in my dreams.

This is totally cheating, both because I love both of the books in question, and because I've already got my answer up there in the article body, but there's a moment near the end of David Simon and Ed Burns' The Corner that brings everything that Simon and Burns are doing in both that book, and in Homicide: A Year On…

Yup. When I'm feeling especially unfair, I refer to it as Pop Science Car Talk.

See, for me, Adnan isn't the the main character of this story: Sarah is. It's her journey, from initial interest to increasing investment. Her doubt, her belief in Adnan as guilty or innocent, is the central narrative of Serial (at least, this chapter of it).

I find myself worrying that people are using Serial as true-crime murder tourism, the way they do those "I Stabbed My Husband!" shows that South Park made fun of (I admit that this is a silly worry). People seem very concerned about whether he did it or not, which I don't think is the point the show's trying to make.…

I wonder if there are 24 hours worth of Andy Daly Comedy Bang Bang appearances. Because if there was, why wouldn't you just make that your list? (I love the Podcast Pilot Project, too, but there's something special about the way Scott goads Andy deeper and deeper into the characters).

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This article was going to be built around a "guitar gently weeps" joke but then I remembered that that was a George Harrison song and I didn't want people yelling at me.

Rebirth, for certain. My favorite new twist so far is the new version of the Mom's Heart fight - the bullet hell-Zelda thing was always in the game's DNA (especially in the Isaac and Dead Baby bosses in the original/Wrath Of The Lamb), but codifying it with the Heart is really cool

I'll say this: Ace Ventura 2 has no illusions about what it is, and it does what it's trying to do very, very well.

I'm a huge puzzle nerd, so the part I liked was the creepy web site they made for it, which had all of the explanations of the weird metaphysics Kelly invented (which I think got shoved into the actual film for the director's cut, which I've never watched).

Among my friends, it's called BOMB, it's played like HORSE where you get a letter when you get it wrong, and none of my friends will play it with me anymore.

Tangential: The "Space" episode of Review is the funniest thing in a very, very funny show.

"Ricky…. Spanish…"

I hate the term headcanon. That being said, from now on, whenever I catch a House rerun, I'm going to pretend House is secretly Thor, sent to Earth and crippled in a spectacularly failed bid to humble him.

My personal preference is Kingsley, Hill, Schrader, Venture. I know there are people who don't like Hey Now Hank, but I think he's the most beautiful TV character there is.

I just posted that question on my Twitter.

You just gave me the urge to write a failed McSweeney's article about modern-day Kafka's poorly received Twitter account.

Also, "Jeffrey Jones' imagination comes to life" is a much darker premise now than it was in the '80s.

He also had something called "Nightmare Cafe," which I had to repress the urge to go off on a long tangent about when I wrote this.