In 1991, scientists perfected the TV opening and nothing has topped this

Agreed. It is disingenuous to say people “didn’t get it” or “expected too much” or whatever when the show and its marketing was actively promising the very thing they were expecting is all. Of course people got upset when they were told Lost would provide answers or the Cylons master plan would be revealed when the…

I think Lost suffered greatly from the time it aired—something that isn’t replicated on rewatching years later. Defenders go on and on about how it wasn’t supposed to answer every question and blah blah blah...but they forget that, at the time, the ads LITERALLY said--repeatedly--for months--“ALL! *pounding bass note* …

And kudos to you, too; it’s always nice to meet another NewsRadio fan who can describe season 5 without unfairly attacking Jon Lovitz.

I thought it was a bit of a letdown when we spent the whole season watching Keith maybe spiral into dementia and then hand wave it off with a line about interacting prescriptions in the last few minutes

Black Sails is a good call.

Good call. Black Sails provided great arcs for almost all of its major characters.

So glad to see Kimmy Schmidt get some love.

Others:

Love seeing Hannibal on here.

The Leftovers.

The final season of Parks & Rec was interesting to me. I didn’t like the second to last season because it felt too fan-servicey. Especially the episode where they visit the Vikings field. It was all just “Let’s watch good things happen to characters you like” with not much substance or humor beyond that. But the final…

Home Movies.

Community.  After the nadir that was the season four finale season five improved quickly, but remained shaky and definitely suffered from Donald Glover’s early exit.  By all rights seasons six should have been a disaster; it moved to the web and lost another lead when Yvette Nicole Brown moved on, but Kieth David and…

And their fish

I’m happy that they have reclaimed this term that I have literally never heard or seen anyone use ever before but apparently was a extremely common slur

This is why my favorite movie of this era is “Real Genius”. It mines a very similar space, except it casts the nerds as affable, clever, real and believable people as opposed to caricatures.

On the other hand, I watched ‘Real Genius’ for the first time in 30 years and it holds up REMARKABLY well. There’s like one part where Chris hits on a girl at a party by making comments about her breasts which... isn’t great, but that’s pretty much the worst thing in there, and by 80's College Comedy standards, that’s…

You couldn’t be more correct. Not to mention that there were even women at the time like Amy Heckerling for example, making or writing for films—with much more depth and nuance usually—that still wouldn’t fly today, understandably. Everyone at the time thought it was the “norm”.

In its defense, it was Revenge of the Nerds, not Non-Spiteful and Morally-Appropriate Reprisal of the Nerds.