Growing up, The Beatles were annoying.
Y’all will never know what it’s like for your parents’ generation to have a complete stranglehold on pop culture… the Boomers utterly dominated society for decades, and by God, they were gonna make us listen to their shit whether we wanted to or not.… Read the rest “”
I know he was just Hannah Horvath’s dad to most of you, but when I was a little kid, he was Tom Hanks’ horny, cross-dressing partner-in-retrospectively-creepy-crime on Bosom Buddies, and Julia Duffy’s nerdy husband on Newhart. He was never going to be a movie star like Hanks —Peter looked and acted a bit like the mutant offspring of Rick Moranis and David Hyde Pierce— but he had solid taste in projects, and remained relevant well into the 21st century.… Read the rest “Peter Scolari (1955-2021)”
In the end, the kindest thing the suits could do for everyone involved was cancel Y: The Last Man. If nothing else, it saves me from wasting my time watching it.
I knew it was in trouble when set leaks and press material made it clear the producers and writers felt they needed to de-center Yorick’s privileged, white, cishet POV… despite the fact that Yorick’s POV is literally the story.… Read the rest “”
This will likely be terrible, but I will watch it anyway, because Kurtwood Smith is a delight, and Debra Jo Rupp is —along with Wayne Knight—a vital part of the connective tissue of ‘90s pop culture.
(Which is now hosted by James Corden) And if you did, did you enjoy watching it? I have a gut feeling that it might be up your alley.
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When I first saw this, I read “Craig Kilborn”, and I thought, “No, because I wasn’t a sad, dumb, and slightly angry college freshman in 2002.”… Read the rest “Did you ever watch any episodes of the “late late show with Craig Ferguson”??”
It took me four years, but I finally finished The Return. And then immediately realized I should have re-watched Fire Walk With Me first. So I did, and instantly knew I needed to watch the first two seasons again. And now that I’ve done that, I need to watch The Return again, because I can suddenly see all the details I missed.… Read the rest “Twin Peaks: The Return”
Beyond tragedy. One of the finest actors of the 21st century… gone at 54.
I’ll have to come back to this later, because this one’s a Prince-level gut-punch.
The cheese stands alone. Goddammit.
A group of young teen girls are having a slumber party. They’re each holding what appear to be reasonably-sized sandwiches, and are poised to take their first bites.
But Mom strides into the room brandishing a copy of People Magazine. She orders the girls to wait before they eat, then opens the magazine and exhorts them to first read an article “about what it means for a woman to grow up fat in America”.… Read the rest “Actual television commercial from 1980”
Burning Love (2012) — S01E01
It is strangely jarring listening to the girls on Love Island sing the ABC song.
“…cue are ess, tee you vee, double-you ecks, why and ZED” is like a slap to the ears. It’s like getting to the end of a novel and finding the last chapter has been swapped out with a recipe for Spam fritters.
