A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Man City,” coming up just as soon as I make some obscure reference to something very specific to a 40-year-old white man from middle America… Through the first seven weeks of Season Two, Ted Lasso was averaging about 35 minutes per episode. That’s …
Read More »
A review of the Loki season finale “For All Time. Always.” on Disney+ coming up just as soon as I tell you not to kick the door in… And down the hatch we go again. The interconnectivity of the Marvel movies and, now, TV series, can be both a feature …
Read More »
A review of this week’s Fargo, “The Nadir,” coming up just as soon as I stand between you and a lifetime of being dog catcher… Early in “The Nadir,” Loy Cannon’s henchman Opal Rackley brings him the bad news that his plan to free Gaetano so that one Fadda brother …
Read More »
The best episodes of Saturday Night Live are a magic trick in which everything looks easy. In lesser ones, you can see palpable sweat as the cast and crew try to stitch things together. While not nearly the abject disaster that was Daniel Craig’s last time hosting SNL in 2012, …
Read More »
Look, sometimes an entire episode is a big swing and a miss. It happens. It’s somewhat surprising that it happened while Scarlett Johansson hosted, because her previous five hosting gigs have yielded consistently solid episodes. But that’s the nature of the Saturday Night Live beast: Some weeks everything just sorta …
Read More »
A review of tonight’s Better Call Saul coming up just as soon as I’m hit with a bag of sandwiches… “You do your thing, I’ll do mine.” -Jimmy Jimmy‘s legal suspension began midway through Season Three, which means we have now been through more than an entire season’s worth of …
Read More »
A month off didSaturday Night Live good, as the show returned with renewed energy, a slew of topics to discuss, and one of the best top-to-bottom episodes of the season. Charles Barkley stumbled through his monologue, but quickly recovered to add something to every sketch in which he appeared. While …
Read More »
The 2015 Kevin Hart-hosted Saturday Night Live features two back-to-back sketches that I’ve repeatedly watched more than any others in the nearly three years since that episode originally aired. “Bushwick, Brooklyn” and “Get On Up” (the James Brown parody) are go-tos when I’m feeling blue, as they always have something …
Read More »
After a summer in which many people wished Saturday Night Live could be on every weekend in order to comment on the craziness that is 2017, the show finally returned this weekend for its 43rd season. But rather than overload on topical sketches during its premiere, SNL opted to keep …
Read More »