Hadn’t heard that soundtrack, but looking at it, it’s look like the most of-its-time soundtrack since, well, Batman Forever. I probably would’ve liked it back then.

She had a very small part and I believe this came out right before she made a comeback of sorts a year or two later.

At least the soundtrack was pretty good. I think a lot of us concluded it had the best good-soundtrack to shit-movie ratio.

I haven’t fully caught up yet, but I’m in the same boat. On one hand, there’s technically more area to explore in the story’s universe, but on the other hand, what I’ve seen so far hasn’t really said anything the first season didn’t already do. The first season was already extremely dark, but this one runs the risk of…

The show’s insistence on hand waving away criticisms comparing the current episodes to the show’s peak would be much less annoying if the writers didn’t also mine plots and references from the same era.

Looking forward to this, but I’m concerned because the previous season would hit a rough patch every time it deviated from the source material, often undercutting its message.

it definitely makes me think less of her, which is sad since she was once almost unquestionably the best comedian on the show. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt that it’s more the writing than anything wrong with her specifically. In general SNL’s political humor has gone to crap in the sketches.

I feel like a Trump impeachment would be a pretty good baseline for what would be acceptable for calls for impeachment. It’s not quite as “I disagree politically” as other calls for impeachment have been as, so far as we know, everything looks legitimately crooked.

Yeah S5 is a sharp drop in quality and second to S8 in awfulness. It seemed to actively undo every storyline brought up in S4, which made everything feel like a total dead end; even Michael Scott Paper Company felt pointless.

More like Seth Rogaine, amiright?

A large part of the backlash to references I feel is the recontextualization of nostalgia and nerdom post-2016 (that sounds pretentious).

I do think it is possible for “Roseanne” the show to do that.

I feel it should be pointed out that separating the artist from the art only really works if whatever grief you have with the artist isn’t found in the art. You can’t really separate the artist from the art when the artist has made their opinions known an issue (Transgender) and then stars in an episode preaching…

I watched this movie (and Rocky IV) dozens of times when I was 8. I’ve never seen Top Gun (or even the original Rocky) in full.

I just assumed most of the people watching Bob’s Burgers probably weren’t watching the Olympics, but that may just be projection on my part.

and it was apparently produced by Tarantino as well?

BRMC’s debut album is exactly what I wanted it to be. It sounds exactly like the thing they were going for. But man, everything after that was just ... blah.

I’ll take the alternatives over what actually charted in 2002 (which is a special kind of awful), but man is it still really hard to see most of this as warmed over Alternative 2.0, but with the band’s influences being worn much more prominently on its sleeves. No wonder Indie became a dead end: where do you go after…