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I can believe that no one else at that party was a veteran. The fact is, the majority of men who were of age did not go to Vietnam. Nor did the majority serve in the military. The percentages in fact are low for service. It hasn't been explicitly stated, but the reporters are closer to 30 in age. The one reporter with the friend who served, graduated HS in 1958 or 1959, according to the show, which makes him close to 30 in 1970. That puts these guys, on the higher end of the age range for service during the Vietnam war. So that makes it even more believable that no one else at that party served. Also, not having served did not necessarily equate to an anti-war stance, and even if it did, it didn't necessarily equate to the boorish viewpoint (basically calling the vets dupes) that Cindy's husband had. I do agree that statement seemed to be an anachronism. Even if that was what he felt, he wouldn't have expressed it that way.

There was also Pan-Am, The Playboy Club, and Vegas (the one with Michael Chiklis). Obviously Mad Men is the go to comparison for shows set in the 60's, and likely will be for many years to come. But they really weren't the first to point how things were different back then compared to today. They just did it better than most. At times anyway, As for Good Girls Revolt, I wasn't too sure if this would keep me interested but watching the pilot I was hooked. My only complaint came at the end when they dropped the anvil that is Nora Ephron. Partly I rolled my eyes because they had already told us earlier in the episode she was Nora Ephron, but then they had to double down by having Jim Belushi make a big stink when she quit, practically saying "Well good luck, Nora Ephron,. We'll see if we ever hear from you again, Nora Ephron! All right everyone, back to work, nothing to see here now that Nora Ephron is gone." ...(Belushi walks out, but then peeks his head back in) "Nora Ephron!".

That is Amy Hill, who was just featured in Random Roles on The AV Club. I had few expectations for this show, and it more than failed to hurdle even that low bar. McHale is the only reason I even gave it a shot, and he was his usual charismatic and funny self. But the rest of the show is just such a piece of shit. As a card carrying member of Gen X, I am all for Millennial bashing, but this show couldn't even pull that off. And that's shooting fish in a barrel. We'll see how long Joel McHale can keep me watching. I am guessing maybe 2 more episodes tops.

Julia Roberts is likeable? Was I the only one who thought Kenny looked more like Kelly Ripa dressed as Beyoncé than Beyoncé?

[quote]You mean, flip the script and have the kids meet some female celebrities? Come to think of it, they never DID do that, did they? All of the celebs were male! [/quote] Well, there was BeBe Gallini. Granted she was fictional, and frankly not much of a role model, and...what was the question again? ;) As for the matter of height, or lack thereof, Greg was a bit short, but to be fair, Barry Williams was only 15 when this was filmed. And he was also standing next to Don Drysdale, who was 9 feet tall (6'6", actually). Robert Reed was also in that scene, and he was a tall drink of water too. Barry Williams would ultimately grow to be about 6 feet tall. That would definitely be short for today's MLB pitchers, but wouldn't stick out so much back in the 70's and 80's, when Greg Brady would have conceivably played. That is if he didn't bomb out at his next game and completely give up baseball to the point where it was never mentioned again. And TBB did have their fair share of celebrities and athletes show up, but only two were Dodgers, Wes Parker and Don Drysdale. The other athletes I recall were Deacon Jones of the L.A. Rams, and Joe Namath, who would become a Ram, but was still a N.Y. Jet when he appeared on the show.

I didn't see that episode, but it sounds like yet another reason to hate the kid. Exactly how low or high he is on the HS food chain is up for debate, but when it comes to how Adam, Dave Kim and and the Mike Levy's are treated, it only matters that he is above them. As they say, shit flows downward.

My high school was pretty much like that. You would generally sit with your friends, whoever they may be. Of course it would depend which lunch period you had. We had two. I remember one semester sitting alone the whole time, because all my friends were in the other lunch period. That computer room really took me back. I was in high school from 1984-1988, and our computer room was basically like that, one room with about a half dozen computers. Though we were definitely not allowed to eat lunch in there, that's for sure. Kids today must look at that and wonder how we ever lived. I find it funny because the impression I get is that the Goldberg kids go to a pretty damn good high school, yet their computer room wasn't much better than ours. I went to a Catholic High School. Not exactly a struggling one, but definitely not one of the ones that got a ton of support. Yet our computer room was about the same as the one on The Goldbergs. Perhaps Adam's school was pouring more money into the athletic program, what with having Ruben Amaro and everything. Also, that Rush kid can feel free to go die already. I cannot fucking stand that kid. Mostly it's because I am distinctly a Rush hater, but also because the idea that this is The Goldberg's vision of the cool, rebellious, rocker kid. Worse, he picks on the dorks, yet he is barely a level above Adam on the nerd scale, as befitting his Rush fan status. You know this kid was a Dungeon Master until he discovered Rush. And likely still is. I just can't stand his pudgy, pasty, zitty face. I'd love nothing more than to take Neil Peart's kick drum and bash this twerp over the head with it. Seriously, I would endure an episode of nothing but "other Adam Goldberg" jokes over one more second of that Rush kid.

The only thing that bugged me was that when they showed that Murray's stubbornness over the parking spot caused them to miss the show completely, it was still light out. It was an all day concert, yet we're supposed to believe it ended before the sun went down? I can assure you, it did not.

And teaching Michael Jackson how to moonwalk. And helping Buddy Holly out with the lyrics to Peggy Sue. And coming into contact with a young Donald Trump. That one makes me think that maybe history did take a turn for the worse due to Sam Beckett. But in regards to Timeless, I don't think it is bad if we fret the repercussions of Lucy and company's time travel. But I do think it should be kept to a certain level. At least in terms of individuals. The show is exploring the effects on Lucy, and likely will do so eventually with the other characters. But they simply don't have the time to go in depth with how the 36 people who didn't die in the Hindenburg spent their lives. Nor will they have time to do so when they no doubt change other events. Of course those new timelines will have a ripple effect, but if they spent even a fraction of the time needed to explain those ripples, they'd never have time to do anything else.

That "Oh the humanity" doesn't occur in the new Timeless reality instantly made me think of Turkeys Away. My guess is the episode still happened, but Les Nessman never got to quote his fellow broadcaster. Which I think is the biggest loss in all of this. Oh well, we'll always have "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!".

More like someone would say "hey buddy, you need to shave". Also, I think it would be mostly the middle 50 or 60 years of the 20th century where that look would be very out of place. I'd say from sometime in the teens, when certain advancements, namely indoor plumbing, were becoming more common, until the early 70's, when the looks of the counterculture became more mainstream. 1937 though, it would stick out. I thought the people in the bunker said, upon the trio's return, that for them, the Hindenburg was always a terrorist attack with only 2 fatalities, rather than an accident, with dozens dead, and all the "oh the humanity!"? It was my understanding that only Lucy, Rufus and Soldier Boy (sorry, I forget his name), remember the original history. Also, we don't know if they were unaffected, we just know that their life trajectory did not change where they were no longer working on this project. I remember Voyagers very fondly. And I am pretty certain someone amongst TPTB on Timeless does as well. This show comes off like a cross between Voyagers (with it's playing to the history nerd in us all) and Quantum Leap (with it's "fixing right what once went wrong" mission). Unfortunately, except for some spots here and there, Timeless is not as eager to have fun with it, like those shows did.

It is the old "matter cannot exist in the same place twice" rule. It is based in real physics, though don't ask me to explain because I couldn't even begin to. I do think this show won't make it, but I will watch every episode. I am a huge history buff (in fact I earned my BA in History) and I love Abigail Spencer, so this is a must see for me.

The first movie was one I decidedly chose to miss in theaters. But one lazy afternoon, I wanted to rent movies and Jack Reacher was the best choice available at the RedBox. So I rented it. And I am glad I did because it has become a favorite. Even if I had hated the rest of the movie I would have still loved it for the fight scene. Of course there are plenty of fight scenes in the movie, but fans instinctively know which one I am talking about, because it is that great of a scene. Plus, it was my introduction to Rosamund Pike. Of course Pike is apparently not in the new movie, but we can't have everything, can we? I have not read any of the books, but if the author can wholeheartedly support the choice of the diminutive Cruise to play the behemoth Reacher, which he does, then I certainly don't have a problem with it. I can understand if others do, but the way I see it, if Hollywood was strict with casting in this way, a lot of parts would have been played by very different actors. I mean Forrest Gump was a Reacher like character in size in the novel, and Hanks most certainly didn't fit the bill at all. Suffice it to say, Michael Keaton would never have been cast as Batman if they were being strict on physicality. Besides, except for height, Cruise fits the bill in every other way. Cruise may not be as big as Reacher, but he hardly strains credibility when whippijng ass. He is in outstanding shape, and his fight scenes in the film are very believable. Or as believable as can be when the character is a guy who ALWAYS whips ass. So I am definitely going to be in line on opening day for the new movie,

Just tried watching this and I only made it to the point where that fucking Rush kid showed up to Saturday detention. God I hate that kid. I really want The Goldbergs to do their 80's style Very Special Episode on drunk driving, and I want that kid to eat steering wheel. I can appreciate Adam's attempts at being Bender, even though life made him Brian Johnson long before John Hughes ever thought of Breakfast Club. But typical Adam, he knows the words but not the music. Bender is not layered clothing, or a raised fist in a freeze frame. Bender is an attitude, and a hard earned one at that. And try as he might Adam just doesn't have an ounce of attitude.

President Bush visited Ground Zero. Granted it was 3 days later, not the very next day as shown here, but Ground Zero was definitely still smoking. I don't know if it has been mentioned, but I found it interesting that the city of Dearborn, MI was portrayed as the ground zero of the Michigan unrest on the show. For those who may not know, Dearborn has been portrayed in real life (by the more lunkheaded in our society) as an American city that has fallen under Sharia Law. This is of course a complete falsehood. But the meatheads have decided that since the city does in fact have a large Muslim population, they can go ahead and spread that nonsense. I've got to think someone on the writing staff was trying to make a point, though I wonder how many people got it.

Yeah, I'm getting a strong Skeet Ulrich vibe.

Isn't that medal a Saint Christopher's medal, which one can probably buy in bulk? Not sure how Shafe makes the leap that it was the medal Hodiak gave him. As for Hodiak and Shafe tracking the Manson Family, season 2 clearly shows that, for the better part of a year and a half, they in fact were not tracking them. Except for Charlie contacting Hodiak when Emma went missing, there was no contact between the two. The drug investigation that Shafe and Charmaine went undercover for, only involved Manson peripherally. Roy, the biker, was who they were truly interested in, and he led them away from Manson. As far as the cops were concerned, Manson was just some sleazy ex-con playing hippie guru with some rather stupid youngsters.

Being a 9/11 truther is the matzo ball hanging in the air when it comes to Daniel Sujnata. But he is not a bad actor, and has appeared in a few good things, most notably Rescue Me, The Bronx is Burning (where he portrayed my man Reggie Jackson), and The Dark Knight Rises.

They simply will not stop trying to put Peabo Bryson, I mean Piper Perabo, over with the public, will they?

I don't know about the legality of it all, but on the show they went to great lengths to say that they truly believed that Burke did not intend to kill his sister. That it was almost certainly an accident. Maybe not an accident, as the scenario shows he did strike his sister intentionally, but he never meant to kill her.

Indeed, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is Julian Castro. Interestingly, Kiefer's real life counterpart has had his name mentioned with regards to the Presidency. A few years ago, Castro was the Democrats answer to Marco Rubio, as in the young Latino politician who people could see in the Oval Office in the future. Thankfully for Castro, he has not flamed out like Rubio. This election year he was talked about as a potential running mate for Hillary. That didn't happen, but whose to say what the future holds. And I am astonished at the number of people who have essentially missed Kiefer's post-1990 career. No judgment, mind you, just amazed. I cannot begin to think of a world where I haven't seen 24 (at least the first 6 seasons).

I have always found Minnie Driver to be an acquired taste. The thought of her playing a pushy and obnoxious character, even if she is that way for a good reason, just makes me pass on this show. And while this article praises the guy I only know as Kripke from TBBT, once again, I only know him as Kripke. So just add that to the negative pile. Then again, Cedric Yarborough is a major plus for the show, but I sincerely doubt he is enough to make me watch.

The main criticism of this show have been the bias against the Ramseys. I can live with the show being biased. There is no shortage of opinions, nor does there seem to be a shortage of those opinions getting their due on other programs. This show puts the blame on Burke Ramsey, another will claim it was an unknown intruder, and yet another will say it was Patsy Ramsey. And still another will try and blame the CIA, or in this case the SBTC. Biased or not, I think they did as good a job presenting the "Burke did it, and the parents covered it up" theory as I have ever seen. Am I convinced? Not really. Mainly because nothing they showed could be taken to court. Well, it could be taken to court, but they'd lose. In the end, the theory they put forth has a lot going for it. Save for the one thing truly needed: evidence that proves Burke in fact brained his sister with a flashlight.

Jesus Fucking Christ, this stupid shit is still on?

Isaac and Ishmael was the one episode that I did view in it's entirety when it initially aired, and I loved it precisely because it was so Sorkin-esque. Meaning it makes eating your vegetables seem like dessert. Or at least like you poured some melted cheese on your veggies. And I also like that it manages the neat trick of essentially standing completely apart from the West Wing's overall narrative, yet never feels like it. The one part I didn't care for was Josh trying to connect with the Josh-like kid among the students. Mainly because he tries to connect in such a Josh-like manner. And you all know what I mean when I say Josh-like.