I’ll agree to disagree on most of your responses. I’ve had this conversation with my friends and most of them agree with you. But I did want to clarify one thing because we might actually agree on it:

“...stainless steel is a pain to repair once damaged.” Namely that it’s impossible to bang out tents and repaint to mask the repair, which is why some unfortunate Deloreans have been painted.

I absolutely loved this movie. Did it remind anyone else of The Last Supper?

Louis Sullivan famously said, “form follows function.” That’s why the original Beetle sold a billion copies and the New Beetle failed.

Fair point. I hadn’t considered that the book was released in 1985. But now that I think about it, Lisa Simpson was ranting about Left wing causes on The Tracey Ullman Show since 1987 and Matt Groening started writing “Life in Hell” in the late ‘70s. Both he and DeLillo had similar takes on Reagan Era consumerism and…

Don’t worry. Musk has a plan to “disrupt” weather patterns with a Dr. Evil-esque “Laser Beam” at the behest of us cretins who dare to live beyond the wide warm roads of the American Southwest.

When adapting a book, it’s always a challenge to decide what gets said and what doesn’t. Film allows a writer to say as much with silence as he can with words. White Noise really struggles with this, particularly in the first act. I couldn’t tell if the rapid-fire dialogue was meaningful or just an homage to the…

LOL that’ll do it! And it’s good to hear you’re both keeping it off. I know one person who had the surgery and she put most of the weight back on within a year. That in itself is unhealthy, but if anything would motivate me to keep the weight off it would be parting with that much money. It’s not cheap!

People shit on personal trainers as “meat heads,” but working with people like you is what it’s all about. Losing 200lbs via surgery means you’re at the start of your journey, a journey that will hopefully become a part of your life.

“I would ask them to stop, and they would just repeat it! I pointed out that I nearly died, and all they could say was to repeat how good I looked!”

Scrooged, The Ref, and Mixed Nuts are my Top 3, and given how Christmas movies are trending towards more Hallmark schlock, I doubt that will ever change. Happiest Season was the best new one I’ve seen in a long time, although now I really want to see a Dan Levy/Aubrey Plaza buddy flick. Also, Jane was the unsung hero…

I saw Gremlins when I was 8 and I’m one of the many children who ran screaming from the theater when they began to hatch, forcing the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating. I went back in after about 10 minutes but I missed some of the funniest albeit goriest parts, so afterwards my mom drew sketches of a Gremlin in the…

“What a mess, Priscilla” is the new phrase for anything that goes tits up.

I know everyone has a show they know should have made the list, but I’m genuinely disappointed American Horror Story: NYC didn’t make the cut. Ryan Murphy productions are notorious for sloppy endings, but here he stuck the landing. This was Kerri Strug’s 1996 Olympic vault.

I saw this show up on Facebook and it immediately reminded me of an image from 1939 that had been circulating about ten years ago. Regulations aside, much of it has to do with trends: what people want, or what automakers tell them they want.

I think Curtis and Harry sum up my conflicting feelings about Kirstie Alley pretty well. I always thought she was a brilliant comedienne. We’ve lost so many greats from the Golden Age of Hollywood recently, I fear Alley’s passing marks the beginning of a wave of losses from the Golden Age of Television.

I’ll also add that television seems to wax and wane in quality. The ‘80s were a wasteland of cut-and-paste family sitcoms and then the ‘90s upended the whole concept with Seinfeld, Friends, even Ellen. By the late ‘90s and early 2000s we were finally getting sitcoms funny enough to get a laugh without a laugh track,…

I loved the first season of Twin Peaks, the season 2 finale, and I enjoyed the third season as a creative experiment, but I completely understand why people didn’t enjoy much of any of it. I showed my boyfriend the first two episodes, and as polite as he was about it, I immediately knew he wouldn’t be a convert. I…

“...save for Skinny Hopper, which is still the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”

This list should be called “30 most watchable shows of 2022.” As decent as some of them are, I’d like to see how they’d stack up to the ones that defined “Prestige TV”: Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, 30 Rock.