It's such a weirdly lazy choice, with the music. It's a jazz band on stage, acoustic bass and all, and dialogue mentions jazz. Yet it's funky electric-bass driven music we're hearing. I know music never matches the band you see. This will always be the case. I've made my peace with it. I'm used to seeing string…

The Middle gives me a ton of anxiety. It's like a ptsd flashback to being poor growing up. The difference is that I lived through the weird transition where the middle class slowly died, and in The Middle they've fully embraced the modern idea that they are middle class and being middle class means you're poor.

Yeah, for a Chuck Lorre show on CBS, Mom is super dark, very funny, and really a stand out show.

So, as a working musician, I have to say that Pierce's role in Treme was about as authentic as a role gets. I thought I was watching people I knew when he was on screen, it creeped me out. His character isn't a bad guy, in my opinion, but damn if that role wasn't perfectly written and portrayed.

The Thanksgiving episodes are usually good about bringing Bob down to the cartoon level of everyone else. In a good way.

Whatever, good, I'm fine with literally anything that keeps Kathryn Hahn working.

The bird theory was so good and almost surely had to have been a parody of the Michael Peterson owl theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Right, I was talking about the Dexter twist though, which was the worst.

Oh god, that twist was coming from a mile away and it was so obvious and so insulting. That's where I and many others finally abandoned ship.

I literally make my living from swing dancing. I don't dance, but I write for big bands. The 90s bands aren't popular anymore at those dances, but the old bands are, from the 30s and 40s. The legit stuff. And none of that sheet music is around (or it is as a bad copy). So dancers wanna hear those tunes live and bands…

Rob McElhenney definitely broke character near the end of that scene. It's twice as funny if you see it next time you watch the episode.

That's part of why I loved Fringe. They made a lot of changes through and after season one, all for the better. Dumping the giant office and keeping the hangout in the college basement with the cow, bold and brilliant move.

I've got the Month of Zen on in the background a lot these last few days and Matthews shows up on TDS in mid/late 2003. Stewart asks him why the yelling thing has to be a part of his show and Matthews says that it's what people wants. To paraphrase: Let's say you are in a dorm building late at night and you walk down…

I think the idea was that Capheus's emotions overwhelmed him in a passive way, while Sun's emotions at that time were overwhelming her in an aggressive way, so it created a pocket for Sun to step into and release her rage. As in, I don't think Capheus was in control. By the time he is, it's too late, but his own life…

I thought that Kabaka had been playing a cup game with his daughter and the gang only recently figured out that Capheus had his own branch of the cup game going on. They didn't know where to find her, but they knew that Capheus would know. They probably assumed that since Capheus would work for Kabaka that he would be…

I think the gang leader thought he could land a shot or two. Thing is, he's used to standing around, getting his prey caught in a web, letting his lackeys do a lot of the violence in his place. He started the showdown hoping to intimidate Capheus but immediately realized that it's pretty hard to hit a bus driver with…

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Which they did not even sample. Any drummer can sit down at a kit and pound out a groove. Grooves are not copyrightable. Drum grooves are not copyrightable. Thank Christ too, because if you can copyright a drum groove, close to 99.999% of music that exists that gets wiped off the map.

Honestly fuck this interview.

I don't know what I've been watching recently, but I fully expected Tandy to be shot during his song, ending the series.