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…

What are you talking about? MacFarlane has voiced Stan throughout the show’s entire run. Roger too.

My takeaway from this article and others I’ve read is that it’s ST:TNG but with more realistic characters. Practically every human in the various Star Trek incarnations has been the super-shiny, perfectly upright version of humanity that would be a spectacular goal for us to aspire to but few will ever reach. However,…

“I’ve always hated snakes, and I always will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy.”

They actually hold up quite well I find.

One of the things that makes BoJack such a great show is that he’s never let off the hook for his terrible behaviour.

He’s not put off about it being a human/animal couple, he’s put off by the idea of her dating Mr. Peanutbutter.

Yeah, the elements that Chappell praises—the willingness to go dark, and take on controversial issues—were there from the beginning, just not emphasized as much. I think the show became better later in the season, but it wasn’t like a big reinvention—it evolved, added more depth to the characters than perhaps people…

I remember the contemporary reviews absolutely brutalized the first couple episodes. I admit it stumbled a bit out of the gate, and I’ve never liked to accuse a writer of not “getting” a piece of entertainment as a means of justifying my own enjoyment. But man, the AV Club just did not get Bojack at all in the…

I saw the second Taken at the theater.

How fucking good has “John Wick” been?