What a creep.

Matt Mira’s in the pocket of Big Rod. 

I watched every episode of House and didn’t find Sherlock to be too familiar because of it. Sherlock’s first season is propulsive and intense. Thundersnatch’s Holmes was a revelation - uniquely charismatic and charmingly English. Freeman’s Watson struck me as a very fresh and likable take on a character usually…

Elementary has been appointment viewing for me since its first season. I wouldn’t be happy to see it end, except for the fact that the past couple seasons have felt very unloved by CBS, and the show has felt much more budget-constrained. The plots are less ambitious, the guest stars aren’t as good, they aren’t…

BBC’s Sherlock has been gliding for a long time from the high of its first season, which was, when it came out, a fresh and riveting take on Sherlock Holmes storytelling. It cemented a positive reputation for the show, which has only slowly eroded away. Subsequent seasons haven’t been as consistently good, and the…

I disagree with this sentiment.

I’ll give that a try on your recommendation. Hardcore History seems to be the most popular of the history podcasts, although after listening to a big chunk of the catalog I soured on it. Dan Carlin’s meandering presentation style (which deprives the episodes of any narrative cohesion) started to grate on me. But his…

No bad movie podcasts superlatives, this year.

I think Season 3 was a definite improvement on Season 2, and the amount of work they put into it shines through. Although you do really get the sense that they were hoping to latch onto a case that would have a momentous ending, but again and again the cases they followed ended... very ordinarily, with plea deals.…

I’m going to commend the first episode of the podcast Strong Songs. I stumbled across it as a Pocket Casts recommendation that I tried on a whim, but it’s actually kind of fascinating. Every episode breaks down a hit pop song on a really intense, technical music level. The first episode is Africa by Toto. It gives a…

Ayoooooo!

SHHHHH!!! You will not ruin my happy childhood memories of The Price is Right.

Not Michael Weatherly! I really liked his character in NCIS. I really wanted him to be a cool guy. 

This list - being the *best* things on the internet - is a far more damning indictment of the internet than anything on yesterday’s “10 worst” list.

It’s how the Sheriff of Nottingham tried to trap Robin Hood. And that story traces back to the mid 1800s!

I don’t have security to make myself look cool, or like I have an entourage. I have security because there’s a file of stalkers who want to take me home and chain me to a pipe in their basement.

The alternative is that he’s paying rent on that can.

But it’s a Netflix original. They’re certainly not going to pull it within the next year. Whether they pull it a year or two from now will have a lot more to do with how the viewership sustains itself up to that point, rather than how it performs on launch.

As you mention “residual profit” and Netflix, that made me curious how residuals work for programming on streaming site.

I’ve heard people invoke this in defence of the song (I heard someone say, “what if it was two guys!”), and to me that somewhat misses the point of what’s problematic about the lyrics. It’s that one person is persistently pressuring the other into intimacy, while ignoring several overt indications that they don’t want…