Her first big pop hits did it for me. I hate that kind of music generally but there’s no denying ‘Poker Face’ is a great pop song.

And i also can appreciate when artists are busting with talent.

Mr. Peanutbutter is closer to 50.

Wendie Malick deserves an Emmy for this season. Her delivery of Bea’s speech to Henrietta was masterful in particular. Of course if Kristen Schaal can’t get her dues I won’t hold my breath for Wendie.

Canceling Deadwood and Rome would probably be my pick, so around the same time as they were passing on Mad Men and Breaking Bad. When Entourage is your marquee show, you’ve fallen deeply off the path.

When they canceled Deadwood might be the starting point.

And Deadwood managed to pull off that message of interdependence in a Western genre more generally associated with the myths of rugged individualism, the lone gunslinger, the up-by-their-bootstraps settler etc. It’s simultaneously a hymn to the attractiveness of those ideas and a working-out of how you can’t actually…

I think Deadwood is the best television show ever made. The sense of hope and comfort that Mr. O’Neil writes about so well is, to me, the most important part about it. It got a lot of publicity for the grit and cursing, but one of the major themes of the show is how we need each other to thrive. We also need the…

Great article! The way the different shows handled 9/11 reminded me of the different ways people in my orbit handled it. I knew 2 people that died in the towers, not close but I did interact with them due to work. Other people in my orbit cried, some raged, some were reflective and then there was some that didn’t know…

Acknowledging the fact that our society is built around white supremacy isn’t promoting it.

Did anyone else notice Diane was essentially cosplaying as the Red Room? Red hair, alternating black and white nail polish. I’m not sure what that means.

While the character clearly didn’t hail from any Earth landmass, she was played by an actor of East Asian descent, looked like a woman of East Asian descent, and was named after a term used in both Chinese and Japanese spiritual traditions.

Is it just me or do these two make sense as a couple?

I don’t really care about this. But let me take this opportunity to blatantly shill remind everyone (or at least any new Kinja readers who might not know) that there is already an excellent musical on TV: Galavant Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. That is all. Any guesses on whether TV Club will still cover it weekly?

The worst thing about destination weddings is actually having to go to the fucking wedding. Why the fuck would I want to go to a wedding during my vacation???

“and Francis Ford Coppola’s very something-or-other, Bram Stoker’s Dracula”

They went for 2.5 hours+ in Calgary, not really a hip hop hotbed. Half way through Chuck was like “The 30-somethings in the crowd better be able to keep up with the 50-somethings on stage” and absolutely BLASTED into Welcome to the Terrordome... I get goosebumps thinking about it still

Chuck D is definitely the man & someone we need to hear more from in these troubled times. I miss the days of rap music having a social message other than bling & booty. I saw PE at Bumbershoot many years ago in a filled stadium, one of the few rap bands that actually sounded good in such a large venue. Was during the…

One thing the HP fandom didn’t change, as this comment thread can attest, is that fandoms will never quit immediately engaging in pissing contests about whose is better or did it first or is more special.

“Somewhere in Houston, there is a man trapped under rubble, his leg clearly broken. Resigned to death as the water rises around him, suddenly there is reprieve from the grave! Light pours in as the man’s rescuer comes into focus. But alas! It is just a woman. True, she is a trained firefighter and muscular and has a…

Flag on the moon. How did it get there?