"Francesca"? That's a bridge too far.

The great thing with such a deep cast is that even if some of the characters don't pop (I always hated everything about Colin Sweeney), there's always someone else who'll resonate with almost any viewer. I particularly loved the use of Hyde Pierce and Perry, who were in some ways "against type", but who also took the…

I'm with you. Everyone on this show is almost depressingly privileged in every possible way. When they did the "bake-off" in the early seasons, I thought it was gutsy to have someone with all of Cary's advantages as Alicia's rival, and not the cliched scrappy underdog…but eventually I started to feel like this show…

I suppose it depends how much interaction you assume they had offscreen before they got married. For me, their decision to get married seemed extremely abrupt and unsupported by how involved they'd been—-the show had only shown them meeting a few times in a professional setting, having some sex, and then out of…

Are inventories just in random order? It's really weird to me that this one opens with a Blink 182 song I've never heard of, before getting around to Bowie at #4 and Rocket Man at #6.

Thank you for this. "The Good Wife" has its strengths, but fact-checking is not one of them, and it's hard to really understand that until they do an episode on a topic you know about…because they *do* include relevant details to provide verisimilitude, they just get them wrong. Like when they went to Canada last…

I agree with Kayla: a show with Diane/Kurt does not need Hannah as its mouthpiece for unconventional marriages. As someone with really normative ideas around what a marriage should look like, I've always been weirded out by the Diane/Kurt relationship - not in a judgmental way, just in a, "Hmm. I did not know a…

Yeah, for me, "It" is just a good solid novel about childhood, with half-assed horror elements tacked on. "Okay, I've got these seven excellently-drawn kids, but what can I have them fight against? I don't know, some monster. No monster in particular. And what should this iconic monster's name be? I don't know. Like,…

King's greatest flaw, for me, is that his Big Bads are always selectively omnipotent, and both the omnipotence and the selectivity are frustrating. They're always depicted as having no limitations, until suddenly they do. So Flagg, who can do literally anything with his magic Satan brain powers, for some reason needs…

I feel like IT is a great 150-page novella which could have been a good 400-page novel, and I have no earthly idea why King let it balloon out to however long he let it balloon out to. If I'm not mistaken, the sewer gangbang is maybe at the two-thirds mark of the book or a little before, so it's weird for me to think…

Weren't they, like, eleven?

I don't think any of us expected you to say that!

Joe Blevins is incorrect. The highlight of this video is when it's time for Bernie's song.

I agree with Armin's analysis, Armin's can of peas, Armin's copy of "Swank".

"Birch".

So…just a recap of several times politics was mentioned on "The Simpsons", which takes the editorial stance that it was meaningfully the same show in season two and season fourteen. Worst FOC ever.

Yeah, I see this ruffled some feathers, and I completely agree with the people whose feathers this ruffled—-my comment wasn't clear and sounded dickish, and even once you clarify it, it probably still sounds dickish.

Gotta go. My damn wiener kids are listening.

He has a point, but I find something hilarious about Steve Miller referring to himself as an "artist".

"This Things I Believe".