tv The Original Asshole Just a real quick breakdown of why The OA pisses me off so much: First: Who the fuck thought the Steve storyline was an acceptable thing to write, perform, and put on screens?
tv "Foggy, I want you to touch my face" So, yeah, I was pretty disappointed in Daredevil. Here's a quick (spoiler-including) breakdown of why: It's basically "Christopher Nolan's Arrow" Daredevil is basically what Arrow would be like if it were
tv Class & Classism on TV: The Suburban Bubble The Suburban Bubble The Bubble This post is about stories of affluence and suburbia, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But before we talk about Buffy, we need to make a quick stop at
tv Class & Classism on TV: Once Upon a Time, First Against the Wall I’ve been meaning for a while to write a few things about class on television. It’s a rich set of topics, and there are a lot of possible places
tv Favorite TV Shows, 2014 edition I could have sworn I'd done one of these more recently. Favorite overall tv shows: Fringe Sports Night Middleman Key & Peele Life Favorite seasons on TV: Sarah Connor Chronicles S2 Fringe S3
tv Life I love Life's take on New Age so much. The cheesy "Zen" audiobook tapes, the pervy dudes after "broken yoga chicks" --— Nick (@kukkurovaca) March 1,
tv Key and Peele: Funk Lyrics Key and Peele's Funk Lyrics (Corrections welcome) GOT A POCKET FULL OF FUNKY WITH A PEPPERMINT TWIST SHE'S A COOL SHIFTY MAMA BLASTIN' OFF ON THE FLIP IRIDESCENT PORK BELLY GALACTIC SUPER TRAIN
tv Key and Peele's East West Bowl 2013 Corrections welcome. East Coznesster Smiff Rutgers University Elipses Corter University of Alabama Nyquillus Dillwad LSU Bismo Funyuns Florida State University Decatholac Mango Georgia Tech University Mergatroid Skittle University of Louisville Quiznatodd Bidness University
tv GDT on Luther I wanted somebody that could bring a lot of authority, but that you could feel the weight of the world on his shoulders. When I watched Luther, that's the essence of the character.
tv Informal Head Count of Non-White Actresses with major roles on US TV shows I've watched So, I was a bit snarky about the "our lady" thing that's circulating, which is super cool, but super white, except for "Our Lady of Loyalty", Zoe from Firefly. Of course, on previous
tv Key and Peele's Magic School Ratings. Vimeo link My favorite is definitely Snagglin' Tripper's Education Center.
tv The gentrification of sitcoms kukkurovaca: @Kalli @vossbrink Mainstream TV comedy today tends to skew hard toward "stories of the upper middle class and rich in... kukkurovaca: @Kalli @vossbrink "...in which poor or ostensibly poor people occasionally have
tv One Works Better Watching the most recent Nashville episode, and I was quite struck by some of the imagery in the lyrics to one of the songs: This plane can fly on just one engine This
tv West Wing & Nashville Tweet roundup: Tempted to try to put together the bones of a post on Nashville as the new West Wing. In broad strokes, they're utopian fantasies about American institutions and they buck trends
tv Fringe Finale Most other series that have played with alternate timelines and changing history and transplanting memory and so forth has ultimately returned each character to the "real" or original version of themselves. The implication
tv From the Invasion pilot Kira: I'd like to be on tv someday. Larkin: Oh yeah? Why? Kira: I dunno, maybe because you can help people. Like when my mom died, I really couldn't believe it, you know,
tv I'm trying to have more fun Jack: "There's a 50/50 chance Sydney cuts the right wire. I'm willing to take those odds if it means I can stand here and watch you turn into an animal." Elena: "You're
tv Or like someone mixing macaroni and cheese... Donna: "When mommy and daddy put a sock on their doorknob, we do not bother them, no matter how bad the dream was, or how thirsty we are." Cleveland: "Or how much we
tv Man fly plane name of Cleveland Whoa, news anchor Dwayne Meegan just tweeted, “It had had been there was plane on the sky had flied itself but update had said not so. Man fly plane name of Cleveland. He
tv East West Bowl 2012 Note: I'm sure this isn't quite 100% accurate. Corrections welcome. Update: @earthtopus found the symbol for Player Formerly Known as Mousecop in unicode. East D'Marcus Williums University of Georgia T.J. Juckson Wayne
tv Some thoughts on The Newsroom Recycling The Newsroom is almost entirely cannibalized from Sorkin's previous work. Is this a problem? No and yes. There's a sense in which Sorkin is like commedia del'arte -- it's about riffing on
tv A Certain Absence "You don't interact with the things we know in the way that we expect. Your presence, your actions can only be inferred by a certain...absence." "Is that a compliment?" "Absolutely." -- Luther
tv How can it be love, if it all it does is make you lonely and corrupt? "You'd degrade the law you serve just to protect some woman who cast you aside like offal?" "In a second." "And you think I'm the monster. Love is supposed to dignify us. Exalt
tv If he'd read a different book by a different writer at just the right time in his life... "I've been wondering. Why do you think he does it?" "Why does who do what?" "John. His Job. It takes such a toll. Why does he put himself through it?" "I don't see
