Thank you for the recommendation, I’m playing back an episode now.

A wide shot of the cast walking towards the below-eye-level camera—yes, this is a Michael Bay movie. In all sincerity, though, it actually looks genuinely good, for what it is. I’m not sure I’d pay to see it in theaters, but I’ll definitely watch it on Netflix.

I like that we have an article highlighting podcasts as a regular feature, as it’s otherwise extremely haphazard to discover good podcasts. But the article itself seems to be quite hit or miss in the quality/noteworthiness of the content it identifies. Maybe it’s just personal taste.  

I lost it with the “You fucked your way to the C-List” comeback.

It’s incredible that those Munich brewers still exist. I was in Munich a few years ago and almost all those names are familiar. A few of them are even available in cans in my local liquor store in Canada.

no one alive can say for certain

It’s funny how The Simpsons-ish the color-palette is. (Simpsons also started in ‘87).

As a Patriots fan (yes, actually, for almost 20 years), the most painful part of the AB situation is crossing paths with the cringe-inducing efforts of other “fans” to defend AB and attack his accuser. “Why didn’t she go to the police?”, “why did she keep working with AB after this happened?”, “This is only civil,…

I think you’re right about Antonio Brown, but there have been way more NFL players than you might think that have faced accusations like this. I found something cataloged by Vice in 2015:

John posted sporadically on “The Avocado” website last season, but he had to rebrand it “Flock & Tingle”. It’s nice to have him back home, and getting paid for his work (however little $ that might be).

Sure, attribute it to my ignorance, but here’s how the AV Club described the network on which it’s airing: “Charter Communications’ Spectrum Originals, whatever the hell that is”. 

In fairness I should maybe note that we also got decade+ delayed continuations of X-Files and Twin Peaks (not sitcoms, though they are points of the column of this kind of thing being a “trend”). But I’ll still maintain that it is extremely unusual, and to single out Friends as the one show not up for a…

“Current penchant for classic sitcom reboots” seems to over-sell it a little bit. There was Will & Grace (about to end) and Rosanne (a brief hit turned total debacle). I don’t count Fuller House because it’s mostly a new cast (which doesn’t stop it from being a “reboot”, but the premise of this article focusing on Frie…

I had my first Starbucks PSL like 5 years ago. I was really surprised by how good it was, and had them somewhat regularly for a couple of months before it stopped being as revelatory to me and I just stopped. I have since become more calorie conscious and am happy with just black coffee.

Is that really the conservative narrative? Don’t they say that libruls are weak “snowflakes”? Usually it’s some “other” (immigrants, black people, Muslims) that gets portrayed as a rampaging, violent menace, rattling the fence at America’s gates, fended off only by the bravery of America’s tough conservatives, while p…

My open-mindedness for Pattinson is this role is entirely owed to his Twilight co-star Kristin Stewart, who has already demonstrated how that franchise badly under-served its actors.

This feels a bit more like making excuses for bad decisions, rather than taking responsibility for having made bad decisions.

First DC enlists Joss Wheedon, and now it enlists Nathan Fillion.

I really don’t think that’s right, or that this cancellation supports the theory.

I think The Mandalorian came about because the Star Wars cast appeared on Conan in 2015, and talked about Star Wars.