I like Rhea and Cameron both as comedians and as a super cute power-gay couple, but I wonder how their acts will age once they've been out for a while. I feel like a good part of both of their routines right now is just them pointing out that they're gay. I know that visibility is important and all that, and maybe…

If any TV show set should have cupholders, it's Match Game.

I have to confess, my first thought when I saw that Alec Baldwin was going to be on a new Match Game was: "as Charles Nelson Reilly?!"

Same. I don't think I have ever cried this hard over a fictional character. I just finished this episode and the finale and I'm a fucking wreck.
I knew it was coming, too. Fucking spoilers. Didn't matter. I'm gutted.

Ahhh, man, I can't wait to sit up half the night in my parents' basement, watching X-Files and Kids in the Hall on VHS and drinking a thing that looks like Sprite but tastes pretty much exactly like Pepsi.

(Great band name, tho.)

I feel terrible for saying this, but I was really digging it until the high-pitched girl voice came in….

I still say "I bet I get hit by a bus" every time things start going well for me. And the full Shannon Doherty quote is the best: "you really think I'm punk! I mean, it's not as cool as new wave, but it's better than pre-teen!"

This book's been on my TBR list for way too long…time to move it up in the rankings!

This will never happen, but I so want it to happen. On the other hand, given the Lady Ghostbuster backlash, one can only imagine the response to Lady Bond. Gillian Anderson would basically have to hire a food taster and ride around in a Popemobile for the rest of her life because of Sad Misogynist Bond Rage.

Blockbuster was weirdly social - you'd hang out there to kill time before going to the movies (ours was right across the parking lot from the theater), run into people there, see the same stoners coming in on Friday nights to rent Cheech & Chong movies and Dazed and Confused. I got my first summer job there, back in…

"It's a fucking cliffhanger. For a miniseries." This pretty much sums it up. Like, does Chris Carter think he's some kind of genius for this idea? Like, "hey, Sopranos ending! Let's REALLY blow their minds!" Is he mad that he didn't end season 9 with Mulder and Scully sitting in a diner, listening to Journey?

Perhaps "Islamophobia" is too much a blanket term, and I realize that we're meant to realize that Shiraz didn't go through with pulling his own trigger, but it seemed like there was a little too much shorthand there given the times we're in. X-Files is, at its best, a smart show that could have, I think, gone for a…

Yeah, TLG actually being alive was one retcon I was willing to accept. And having Gibson Praise as the big bad is a cool idea, too. I like that they brought back the original writers, but I'd like to see what Joe Harris could do with an hourlong script.

I'm really shocked that this episode received a higher grade than last week's. I waited to post until I'd mulled it over a bit, but, nope, time hasn't helped. This episode feels to me like a complete mess, starting with the Islamophobia and ending with the needless addition of Einstein and Miller. The Lone Gunmen…

I was thinking of Bart's line: "I didn't think it was possible, but this both sucks and blows."

Yeah, I'm surprised at the low review here and some of the negative comments. Yes, there was some tonally uneven stuff in the beginning (I laughed out loud when I heard Charlie Scully's name, because he's been kind of a joke in the fandom for years, like the older brother in Happy Days you never saw after the first…

Same. That was a total mascara-ruiner.

I will listen to this because I am Star Wars trash. I will probably enjoy this because I am regular trash.

Gotta say, I was way happier with this one than the opener, and "My Struggle" wasn't terrible, but it was a bit of a mess. But this one had a great sort of "Die Hand Die Verletz" (sp? sorry) meets "Home" or "Post Modern Prometheus" vibe. Great cold open, some great images - the baby hand, Scully running into that…