Not in any way a meta- or pop cultural reference, but that episode of Friends ends with one of the greatest, slyest nods to cunnilingus that’s ever slipped past American TV censors. Always point it out when I can.

Two great tastes that taste great together!

This my favorite stab at “let’s revitalize the Slytherin cause”:

I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s getting great reviews elsewhere, so don’t give up hope.

I highly recommend the You Must Remember this (podcast) season on Manson’s Hollywood - which, aside from giving you the lowdown on Manson’s views on race, also happens to be one of the best casts ever committed to pod. Absolutely amazing in too many ways to detail here.

Yes, to this, one of the most satisfying series finales I’ve ever seen. Plus, for all the, ahem, justified love that Olyphant, Goggins, et al. get, Joelle Carter absolutely slays as Ava in S6 (and she was always good).

He keeps forgetting to count (we brought a small bag of them back home with us)!

I visited the US (my original homeland) this summer with my 7-year-old and Tootsie Pops blew his mind. I had one for the first time in, like, 20 years. Mind also blown. That first bite into the center . . .

I know its best seasons were behind it, but Homicide: Life on the Streets was still a strong series, still knocking out killer episodes. I always found it a lot more watchable than NYPD Blue.

Schwimmer’s commitment to physical comedy is way underrated, as are his willingness to let Ross be the heal (nobody else plays the heal as often) and the butt of everybody else’s jokes, and his ability to play both brainy pedant and complete idiot, often in the same scene. Ross is great.

That change actually starts a bit during the back half of Buffy S3 - after she and Xander split up (cuz he cheats on her), and after her dad loses all his money, Cordy starts to move away from the mean girl schtick a bit.

“you’re moving the couch wrong,”

The Spanish Prisoner is so good - happy to see it pop up here.

Maybe more like?

I hear you - but if it helps, the Buffy/Spike romance is supposed to be unsettling (apologies to shippers!) - it’s a mutually abusive relationship that Buffy mainly takes part in because she hates herself. And the magic/drugs things, surprisingly (cuz it seems to be what everybody remembers), only actually comes up in…

If you haven’t done so, give Buffy S6 a rewatch - it’s fantastic. Yes, it’s dark and the characters all get mopey at times - and there are 2-3 really bad eps - but overall, it’s a really thoughtful exploration of trauma and depression that takes the time to consider how five years of facing near death on the regular…

It helps that it takes place in one of the best episodes of the series. There’s so much going on in Fool for Love . . . it’s a truly magnificent example of TV art.

They are awesome. And a massive cultural milestone of a band.

Yes, it’s a dangling modifier. 

A Quite Place’s approach to sound and (mostly) non-verbal storytelling was excellent, no doubt. But it was also a mess of a script that started unravelling as soon as I left the cinema and started thinking about it. It was intensely fun fluff, which I enjoyed the hell out of. But hardly one of the best of the year.…