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Thanks to @Lamb Dance and @BritishCuisine for being much more clever than me. Like the rest of this tournament, no upsets, no close calls. The Last Temptation of Christ triumphed over Shadow of the Vampire 30 votes to 12, which … Continue reading DaFinalFoe or DaFoeNal: The Finals
Please welcome today’s contestants: Holly, a program director, is starting to feel the luck from her podium; Dan, a stay-at-home dad, wrote a poem about ex-planet Pluto; and Andy, a writer, had about the shortest Jeopardy! interview possible. Andy is … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Nov. 17
The Ultimatum One of the reasons the death of the Earth Queen is such a huge moment for the franchise is that it finally, and truly, throws out the character safety net that has existed for the run of Avatar and most … Continue reading Re-Avatar State: “The Ultimatum” & “Enter The Void”
Growing up as an uncultured suburban youth, I had no interest in musicals for the most part. None had made an impact on me from the few that I had seen and they all felt like this that not even … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 17: Your Favorite Musical Moment
Here are today’s contestants: Andy, a writer, hosted a comedy science podcast; Kelly, a clinical trial project manager, specializes in random knowledge; and John, a marine aviator, whose son won a reading bet to wear a non-military mullet. John is … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Nov. 16
LAW AND ORDER on TV is pretty common and there are a lot of legal dramas on out there over the years. Some stem from books, others slide in from film to TV adaptations, but most are original works putting … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 16: Your Favorite Legal Series
Episode Grade: B+/A- Before I get into any reviewing of tonight’s episode, I’d like to take a moment to acknowlege that this is Bob’s Burgers‘s 200th episode, both in terms of production order and airdate (as far as I can … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S11E06: “Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Kids”
Rabbi and Satchel hit the road. Continue reading Fargo S4E9 “East/West” Live Thread
It’s a good thing I’m planning on doing one big goodbye essay to The Simpsons next week, because otherwise we’d have the weirdness of ending on an incredibly horny episode about Homer and Marge’s sex life. Some people have argued … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Nine, Episode Twenty-Five, “Natural Born Kissers”
Not quite Adventure Time, but with a comment section not much less off-topic than the AV Club review ones. It’s Animation Time! What animated things have you been into lately? What’s a recent episode of something you saw that lacks a dedicated review … Continue reading Animation Time
We’re going to help out a bit here with a look at the first-run list of syndicated US shows here for this one. This was a time when you had things like the Action Pack and PTEN blocks that put … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 15: Your Favorite 90s Syndicated Shows
I wasn’t watching SNL at this point yet, but I do remember seeing No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” video so often I practically had it memorized shot by shot. Continue reading SNL Vintage: Martin Short/No Doubt (12/7/96) Discussion
Going into this question was tougher than I thought. Having grown up as a child/teen of the 80s and the heavy exposure to must-see-TV when it came to appointment television and sitcoms, there are so many that I like that … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 14: Your Favorite Sitcom
Introducing today’s contestants: Mary, a game play engineer, bakes pies for “Pi Day”; John, a marine aviator, is a third-generation pilot; and Kate, an assistant athletics director, was a cheerleader without knowing American football. Kate is a one-day champ with … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Nov. 13
The Stakeout What does Zaheer want? A simple question that has been motivating both our heroes and villains, there’s been moments of chaos and calamity as our characters come into contact with the Red Lotus (thank God I can right … Continue reading Re-Avatar State: “The Stakeout” & “Long Live The Queen”
It may be hard to remember your first real obsession because you may not have been aware of it fully in a way, but there is that show that you truly remember as your first obsession. Mine came in my … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 13: Your First TV Series Obsession
“Physical Education” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, March 4, 2010 Sometimes an episode of Community succeeds because it explores a resonant theme, or it nails the tone and feel of a certain genre dead-on, or it creates an iconic … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E17, “Physical Education”
Still no Upsets. Still no Close Calls! Shadow of the Vampire and The Florida Project beat their competitors Platoon and Spider-Man 1 by 10 votes each, 26-16 and 22-12, respectively. The Last Temptation of Christ got 12 more votes over … Continue reading Dafoe: The Final Four
Ah, but we have reached very nearly the end of our travelogue through this series, mais ous? With but two episodes to go, and having recently been through a number of episodes that felt quite different than the classic Christie … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S13E03 “Dead Man’s Folly”
Gain the rich rewards of joining us to live chat the penultimate episode, Supernatural – s15e19 – Inherit the Earth! Continue reading Supernatural – s15e19 – Inherit the Earth – Live Chat
