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It's probably why I enjoy and identify with her, but Issa Rae really is so awkward. I almost didn't make it through that interview. I've not seen the show identified as a "black" show. I know it was being rebroadcast on BET for a while, but that kind of made me think it wasn't doing well (or better) with black audiences.

Ah, that's what I missed. I got that principal grandson thing, I just missed this line. Thanks.

I really enjoyed the movie. I loved the scariest moment for me happened when the hero and villain were in civilian clothes. My only question is about the timeline. I saw a really confusing thing about how confused this makes the MCU timeline, but I just want to know why schools are still using Captain America PSAs after Civil War. Maybe the public doesn't know Steve's status as a criminal. Maybe it's that thing where school materials lag. What am I missing?

Paul was on the Le Batard Show on ESPN a few days ago. If you want to look it up. He wasn't the best fit as a guest for that show (something stated by the hosts), but he was charming as always.

You know. After reading your comments, I watched another episode. I realized the credit music is cheesy clichéd soap opera music. I'm still a bit bored at the end of season 1, but I get it. Thanks, guys. Except for 10,000 episodes of Doctor Who, I think this is the first old show that I've gone back to watch versus rewatching things I experienced as a child. Even I Love Lucy and Little House were new to me because of the way TV programming was in the 80s and 90s. I just need to readjust how I'm watching it. I may need to do an all day binge for Season 2 instead of slow-playing it like I tried with Season 1.

I was a kid the first time this one on. I somehow watched everything but this. I'm struggling for the reasons that Matt K said. My question is did everyone get that it was campy and over the top when it originally aired? Some of the acting is so very awful, but I'm not sure how much of that is intentional.

I'm half annoyed that he's alive and half okay with it because it fits the over the top show. And because I like looking at him. They could have kept him as a ghost, but I don't know how long they could have kept that interesting.

I happened to listen to something about prison riots this weekend. It made me understand where the writers were getting a lot of the material from this season. I still didn't like much of this. But I appreciate it a bit more.

This seems like a strange tactic for all involved if the result is "failure." If I understand what you're saying correctly. Vanessa so far is useless. I noticed this episode that when she does offer critique it's just a parrot of what Mary or Nigel just said. I mind the backstory if the time is going to be this limited. This isn't days and days of Olympic coverage, it's a little over 40 minutes. And most of us have come here for the chance to see people dance.

I'm surprised they haven't made the connection between this trial and the other trial of the black officer. He was acquitted because he was trained to kill instead of incapacitate.

This has been DJ Khaled's shtick for a long while. Should the show have used it on this episode? I don't know. But it wasn't made up for this episode. I chose to look at it like complete satire of the "rah rah, if we could just talk it out and love each other...." stuff that usually ends up being pushed by people in the middle after things like these shootings happen. I wish that we could find out what they were really going for, because it didn't quite work.

It's just like how Politico handles its social media. The same article posted every hour on the hour. The show made me cry tonight. That's all I'll say.

This is the episode I would have used as the pilot. I thought it did the best job of setting the stakes of trying to make it as a comic, showing the ups and down and giving us an in to root for these characters.

I was expecting something brilliant and was completely underwhelmed. I wonder if he's one of those contestants with an amazing background in dance that the producers and judges know about but we don't. If the episodes are going to be so short, I really wish they'd cut the fluff and give us the most (good) dance possible.

I thought the balance of wackiness and serious material wasn't right. This might just be the meth heads issue that everyone else is mentioning. At the midpoint, I was really considering dropping the show for a while at least.

I think Trevor just realized how old 33 really is. Vince made a lot of new fans with that interview.

I hate reboots because the represent lack of imagination on the audience's part, George Lucas-style poor judgement by the creators of these shows, and network desperation. I really think some of my friends have so little imagination when it comes to TV and books that they want a show that lasts until the characters all die of old age. And yet, when they announce another Psych episode and I'm planning a day off to watch. If they've got to do it, why can't they just stick with shows that were poorly done the first time around? Not like Cupid which was great but a ratings bomb, but like Cop Rock, The Class or Off the Map. I just saw that a Northern Exposure reboot or reunion is being discussed

I watched it with my family (a rewatch for me) and we woke up right before the credits and had to put it on again later. The effects just don't have anywhere close to the impact on a regular television that they had in the theater. The ending and the credits were the most interesting parts anyway. The rest of the storyline has been done in Iron Man and now Iron Fist.

Comedy Central was really driving home Roxane Gay's point by airing a Daniel Tosh fat joke promo seconds after she stopped talking. Good job, guys.

No! I swear I checked for activity in May. Thanks! That's the other thing about podcasts ghosting or "ending." When is it safe to delete the feed?

It seems like most of my fun go-to podcasts have ended in the past year DWITGAOATP, The Indoor Kids, and U Talkin' U2 To Me?, or are changing hosts or styles like FanBros and Radiolab. I have about 35 hours of time to fill during my work week. I really don't want to be stuck with political shows on a daily basis. Does anyone have anything to replace Radiolab's sciencey content now that they've shifted focus?

Wings - I was excited to see it on one of those random antenna channels. But there's something missing, like with most shows with a will-they-won't-they aspect. I have the same issue with Frasier and Friends. Sitcoms that are just funny week-to-week without some "goal" hold up better for me. I'm also not sure I could do a full rewatch of Buffy or Quantum Leap now that I really know how they really ended, I can't sit through episode after episode of problem of the week set in a dreary 90s background (more so with Quantum).

I've been a fan of the comedy scene since I was kid in the 80s and 90s. It's my understanding that a lot of our favorite funny people - at least from that time - were miserable to be around and that that scene was a mess. I'd add a mess but not in a fun way. It would take a lot to counteract all of that to make a watchable show. I don't know that rooting for these characters to make it is enough. Isn't the whole thing that we probably wouldn't be rooting for them if we saw what they were really like, and what we see on the stage is a cover?

Yes! Brian Tyree Henry so deserving of recognition. From the media though, I think Keith Stanfield is becoming the breakout from this show. He's just so strange.

Well somebody did their debate prep. That was one of the better interviews of that type I think I've ever seen. The only thing that was lacking was to compare and contrast her feelings about BLM protests with her feelings about Tea Party protests (I'm assuming there's a difference).