Politics is the ultimate entertainment. Over at The Atlantic, a sober estimation of why TV is outperforming movies as quality entertainment: Networks love the cable bundle for the same reason that viewers hate it: It’s a relentless (i.e. dependable) transfer of money from households to networks, regardless of what television or how much television we… Read More Why Netflix is Still the King…
Every week I get at least a few hits from the phrase “how I met your mother jumped the shark.” This occurs because a year ago I penned a post entitled “I Met Your Mother While Jumping a Shark.” and while it doesn’t bring in quite as much traffic as “Why Family Guy Sucks at… Read More HIMYM, Shark-Jumping, and the Lonely End of All Sitcoms
Other McCain: …the day before your 18th birthday, you’re strictly off-limits, but the minute you are legally an adult, you’re fair game for the Furry Red Humping Machine. First Cookie Monster becomes a vegetarian, and now this. I never understood the charm of Elmo. He did nothing, served no purpose, that other characters did not already,… Read More I Just Knew Elmo Was Creepy…
I ranted a few weeks ago as to how tired I was with Cable TV. However, Bill Inertia is a powerful force, especially When you don’t know if you’re paying forward or back, so I didn’t get around to actually calling Verizon until yesterday. Being one of those poor fools who got bundled, I wanted… Read More Verizon FiOS Doesn’t Hate My Business. They’re Just Not That Into It.
This may get rant-y. I hate Cable TV. Hate it. I hate skimming through the hundreds of channels looking for the Weather Channel when it storms. I hate Comedy Central’s two-hour blocks of It’s Always Sunny in Danny DeVito’s Career and The Roast of Some Poor Sad Bastard From the 80’s Who Needs to Cover His Mortgage when… Read More Here’s $10, Bring Me the Head of Verizon FiOS
Finding out that Jim Parsons, who plays uber-geek Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, bats for the rainbow team is a surprise, and it is not a surprise. We aren’t talking about Liberace, and we aren’t talking about Rock Hudson, either. So the obvious response is neither “Duh,” nor “No way!” but “Huh.” Which… Read More Jim Parsons and the Gayness of Geeks
Ladd Ehlinger does what many righties have done over the years with regards to Family Guy, which is get nice and pissed at it and then banish it from his DVR. Which is a perfectly sane and sensible thing to do. But Ladd seems to sound surprised at the crudity of McFarlane’s political satire (it… Read More Why Family Guy Sucks at Political Humor
…and no one cares. Okay, Fletch was funny. Caddyshack was kinda funny. The Vacation series was okay-funny. First-season SNL must have been funny (I was 1 at the time). Everything else Chevy Chase has done is unwatchable crap. Weak, tired, and unfunny. Chevy Chase could have sucked the life out of Ghostbusters. So Chevy Chase… Read More Chevy Chase is So Full of Being Chevy Chase, He Doesn’t Realize That He’s Chevy Chase…
HIMYM was funny tonight. “I camp in secret,” “Landing strip on Marshall, even money,” good stuff. Last line, super-annoying.
Good stuff: There’s always two stories, they alternate between them, and something is always about to happen, usually eviction. Last night was one of those really cheerful episodes where both stories end in failure. The fascinating part? Not the junk they keep, not the reasons they give, not the delusions they construct, but the immense… Read More Lileks on Hoarders
Content Blues 