I love the implication that Step Brothers is an integral part of the canon.

I like The Shining a lot, but upvoted for the shot at Steely Dan. Fuck Steely Dan.

I think "Unfriended" is innovative and well-executed in how it was made and how it sticks to depicting the realities of teenagers pfaffing around online (see Mike D'Angelo's take)…but, agreed, not scary.

Hate TWD so much. "Zombies! Run! Oh, no! More zombies! Run! Oh, no! A third set of zombies! Continue to run!" Good show, guys.

I need to hear more about why.

You be Carl Reiner, and I'll be Police Chief Wiggum.

"Safe" is right in the wheelhouse of the stuff I mentioned in my longer response to you—-it's not overtly scary in a slasher-movie sense, but it's got an unsettling vibe. I'm usually horribly susceptible to that kind of thing, but I once saw a really bad print of "Safe" and thought, "Okay. I can see what he was going…

Oh my fucking God yes, thank you! I've tried to watch Pet Sematary so many times, and haven't been able to get through it, because…Dale Midkiff, really? I'd never even gotten to the Zelda parts of the movie. And, especially relative to the rest of the book, I never found the Zelda parts of the book very scary—-she's a…

Reading this over, and then thinking about what my answer would be, I realized that I am afraid of literally everything.

I've never heard of this program, but your comment inspired me to look up whether it stars Diedrich Bader or else…one of the other "Diedrich"s America is supposed to be on a first-name basis with. I was not disappointed.

My interest in this show is 99% Aya Cash-related, and the other 1% is Gretchen-related. Most of the other characters are…well, surprisingly complex and interesting once you're acclimated, but all the good stuff is buried beneath about a million layers of irritating caricature. (Which is shrewd in a bunch of ways - the…

Oh, I have items!

"What country do you live in where you think we'd have a Congress full of newbies in a week?"

Of all the things I hate about this show, the absolute most irritating one is the constant raising of the spectre of 9/11 and implication that, hey, a bunch of ordinary people being killed in New York was the worst terrorist attack ever, but the complete destruction of the government? …NBD. I mean, definitely the…

Quit your modern-"Simpsons"-dreamin', melonhead!

Probably I don't know enough about agents. I felt like the pilot made it clear that Ginny's notoriety left her in need of an entertainment agent—-that Amelia was the agent for "Ginny, famous person", not "Ginny, ballplayer". I thought it was really weird that the show spent so much of its second episode bending over…

I have a nitpick - or maybe I just haven't been paying attention. Have they made it clear what point of the season this is? Regardless of talent, I believe that the first woman in MLB would (will?) be brought up by a terrible team as a late-season callup. There've been some hints that that's what's happening…

It isn't terribly common for the catcher to be the star player, but yes, it's possible. I suspect that MPG's character is meant to be based on Mike Piazza, a now-retired catcher who had a similarly dudebro vibe and who was one of the biggest baseball stars of his generation. I know if I were writing a show about the…

No, definitely over the top. I'm glad she's been on the show, because this is the first I've found out she exists, and I think she's great…but what they're writing for her sure isn't.

I'm with you. Both weeks, the writers have lampshaded their weaknesses and tendency toward cheesy cliches by depicting it as a character choice. "Oh, we aren't bad writers - this character just talks like he's been scripted by a bad writer!" But MPG sells the hell out of it. He's doing a great job.