Don Draper is 🎵making his way downtown, walking fast. Faces pass, and he’s homebound.🎵 Mad Men was one of many shows that debuted in the summer—the subject of today’s Couch Avocados header. 🎵’Cause Don needs you. Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. And he’ll miss you. Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh…🎵 Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – June 18, 2026
Whether as Giles or a jerk like Ted Lasso villain Rupert Mannion, the late Anthony Head owned the screen and was always a class act. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – June 11, 2026
Regular Show: The Lost Tapes is worth a rental at the Wherehouse. Where? The Wherehouse. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – June 4, 2026
The Couch Avocados column ends its Asian Pacific American Heritage Month series of posts on the Asian American action drama Warrior with a bang—and a lovely impalement with a giant cross. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – You Get May?! 28, 2026
You Get May?!, a month-long series of posts (in the vein of Farscape February) about the action drama Warrior, continues with a look at a cathartic and magnificent episode where unexpected heroes strike back at anti-Asian hate. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – You Get May?! 21, 2026
The greatest fight scene from Warrior doesn’t feature Warrior star Andrew Koji. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – You Get May?! 14, 2026
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month means it’s You Get May?! over at the Couch Avocados column. Every header will be about Warrior, a show Asian Americans needed when anti-Asian hate was on the rise. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – You Get May?! 7, 2026
Korean barbecue is to Bloodhounds what pizza is to every incarnation of Ninja Turtles. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – April 30, 2026
Batman: The Brave and the Bold is one of many Warner Bros. Animation shows that are currently on Tubi, but don’t count on it being on that same Bat-channel for long. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – April 23, 2026
Keith Richards looks fantastic while waking up on his new Sealy Posturepedic bed. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – April 16, 2026
Today, the Couch Avocados column looks at Warp Wilde, a rejected cartoon that would have been the Disney Afternoon equivalent of The Jetsons, the show that promised us flying cars that turn into briefcases. Still waiting on that, Carl Friedrik. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – April 9, 2026
Ryan Coogler’s upcoming X-Files reboot pilot and Riz Ahmed’s terrific new show Bait have a few things in common—other than the fact that a pig’s severed head plays a role in key episodes of both shows. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – April 2, 2026
Wonder Man star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is having a much better week than the Star Trek franchise and Moses Moody. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – March 26, 2026
Stumble deserves the chance to fall and get back up again. And again. And again. And again. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – March 19, 2026
Some of the late Robert Duvall’s best performances were on TV, long before he grew into a film acting legend. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – March 12, 2026
“I got in one little eagle, and my mom got scared/And said, ‘You oughta stop these eagles with your friend Chocolate Bear.'” Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – March 5, 2026
On the count of three, say “Frell the Peacekeepers”/One, two, three, frell the Peacekeepers. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – Farscape February 26, 2026
You don’t like my lifestyle? Frell you! I’m rolling with the Moya crew. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – Farscape February 19, 2026
🎶Now everybody, throw your hands up high/If you don’t give a frell, throw your hands up high.🎶 Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – Farscape February 12, 2026
Frell the Peacekeepers comin’ straight from the underground/A Leviathan got it bad ’cause I’m round. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – Farscape February 5, 2026
Cannell-ary 2026 concludes with Mike Post and Pete Carpenter’s theme from Baa Baa Black Sheep, the Cannell show with a title that makes it sound like it’s about Dres and Mista Lawnge running away from a strobelite honey every week. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – Cannell-ary 29, 2026
