DearEvette

I don;t know why, but thinking of Regina King on Southland made me think of Tracy on Rookie Blue. Also a single mother with a deadbeat ex. The only one of the rookies with a kid. She did get a nice love interest though with Det. Jerry, but then they went and offed him. Then she started up with Steve who in the end was a dirty cop. Between her role as stalwart single mom, her unlucky love life and her rapidly disappearing screen time, she couldn't catch a break.

Oh yeah, I just thought it was cool how you kinda knew which universe you were going to be watching based on the color scheme/scientific breakthroughs flashed during the credits. Also on the TWOP boards someone actually deciphered all the glyphs they showed each episode and figured out that episode's word. I really ate that up like a biscuit. Added another layer to watching the show.

Once in awhile Fringe would bust out some context specific opening credits. They did an 80s flashback epsiode and the opening credits were 80s retro. And then when the show started talking place in the alt universe the color of the opening credits changed. The regular universe was blue but if the ep was gonna take place in the alt. universe it was red. And then when they started doing things with the timelines, those credits changed as well. Somebody compiled the different ones here. I also like the theme song. So very much perfect for the show.

That is next on my list. So stoked for this!!

Can. Not. Stand. Amy. Schumer. She is unfunny, smug and bloviates about her rad girl feminism but just comes off as insincere. Lena Dunham. Same deal. Probably low hanging fruit, but Katherine Heigl. I like Dule Hill and would love to watch any show he is in, But she is in it with him and and in my personal calculus of which weighs more, my dislike of her or my like of him, she wins. Megyn 'Santa Claus is just white' and ' Maternity Leave is a welfare-state entitlement until I need it' Kelly. Katherine McPhee. I barely gave her notice until her terribleness spewed all over Smash.

Then it must really be bad that they are choosing to fire him. He's generally considered the star of the show, and shows tend to protect their money makers. If they are outright firing him and not circling the wagons to play this down, then I would venture to guess that must mean something even worse than a kick went down or there were more incidents than just this one.

Doing a comfort re-read of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series. Miles is one of my favorite fictional characters hands down.

The Outsiders has Sally Ann and Hasil. Is Into the Badlands cancelled? Cuz Veil and Sunny are a couple.

But I would contend that no one in the history of casting the show or watching the show has ever given any of these brown contestants higher than even odds of even making the final five let alone winning. They are cast for 'on paper' diversity and not really because they have a real shot at winning. I would take a guess that if someone were to splice together all scenes where the black contestants got quality on screen face time with the bachelor or bachelorette we'd probably only get about a two hour running time total. And I am being generous. And this is over 20 seasons. I stopped regularly watching after the Charlie O'Connell season (now that was a shit show!) but have kept up with news around the show as a pop culture voyeur. I pretty much just assumed the POC were cast as tokens and kept in the background until they could be comfortably eliminated without causing undue commentary. I was surprised to learn that most years the black female contestants have been eliminated within the first three episodes. So yeah, the two hour thing might be very generous. There were four seasons straight where there wasn't a single black contestant on the Bachelor. Also, non-black POC get farther. Here is an article that looks at only black contestants Here is an analysis that looks at all POC But even so, i am still in agreement with @ribboninthesky1 given a lot of competing pressures a POC bachelor would have and how ABC has colossally botched the whole issue, it feels like that ship needs to keep sailing.

I dunno, the Bachelor is such a shit show in so many ways I honestly don't know if I'd want to see black & brown folks up in there. it reminds me of an interview that Jonathan Franzen just had where the interviewer asked him if he'd ever consider writing a novel on race. He said no because he had never been in love with a black woman. To which I say, Please, Jonathan, just stay in your lane. We are good with you writing what you are already writing (not that I read it). But, you do you! So I kinda am there with The Bachelor at this point. But I do think Dungey's remarks are just a load of Malarkey. You could literally pluck a POC from somewhere and create a new Bachelor. That is how it was done in the early seasons. Heck they had celebrities (Charlie O'Connell) and athletes and a frickin' European Prince. This habit of bringing back a Bachelorette reject has only been in place in the in the last five or six years and that is not even half of the live of show. They had one cycle where they had two bachelors at once competing. So they could literally change up the format any way they wanted to to give some pep to the franchise. My theory is that a black bachelor would by necessity require more than two black bachelorettes. And that in turn will make it a 'black' show. And even though ABC scores really well in diversity in their scripted shows, this is a reality romance show that appeals to a (I am betting) specific demographic that they are a little afraid to alienate with a too much melanin tipping point.

Ha! I love that this is still brought up some eleventy-twelve pages and a whole year later!

Makes sense, I suppose. It is justt weird it wasn't mentioned at all given that last season, iirc, that her addiction was part of what led to her exile. I am fuzzy and too lazy to look it up but didn't she botch a surgery while she was high? It sounded like a bit of a retcon that her mother seemed displeaeed that she was a doctor at all, not just one who brought disgrace on the family due to her addiction.

I liked this one. It was nice seeing the inside of Pawter's dysfunctional family and seeing some of the social norms of the Nine. I got the impression the weasely fiance had been Pawter's boyfriend before she got kicked out of the family and then moved onto the sister. He was playing the long game, infiltrate the family and take it over or destroy it. His cover was obviously to act like a buffoon. Had me fooled until he mysteriously disappeared. Looks like we'll be seeing the Black Root soon and I am interested in how all of Khlyen's schemes will come to fruition. Altho who is that blonde bartender? Is she D'avin's next girlfriend? She just seems so random. The show shouldn't even try to do romance because the forays into relationships all feel rather random and not well thought out. You don't know who is going to be making fluttery eyes at whom from one week to the next. And finally, what happened to Pawter's drug addiction? Wasn't the drug she was addicted to so terrible that it couldn't be kicked but you had to keep taking it in manageable doses? What did I miss?

I think it would be a really gutsy move on the part of the show if One/Jake Corso is really dead with just that little fanfare. Like the show admitting, 'yeah, people die just that quick and senselessly'. It would be so counter to what a show like this would seem to do. I admit I do like Three much more this season. Mainly because I think the actor taps into to some smart lighter acting moments. Last season he was just mean-angry now he's kinda funny-angry. I also think Nyx is some sort of genetically enhanced human. And I do think the show is going to pull the trigger on her reveal since they are making it plain people are noticing. And finally, I liked the foray into humaness with Android, but I want her to realize that it isn't what she wants to be all the time. Treat it like a nice pair of shoes that she liked to put on and show off, but they kinda uncomfortable and it is a relief to also take them off at the end of the day. So it is something she can put on and take off (sparingly) as the crew needs her skills.

Objectively 'Cowbell' is not funny. Jimmy Fallon couldn't keep it straight and everyone was so obviously reading from cue cards. But I do admit that there is something about Will Farrell with the moth eaten beard and his gut hanging out from under a shit-brown shirt jiggling around hitting that cowbell that startles a laugh out of me once in awhile. But yeah, I don't quite get the massive love for it.

That episode is what sold me on Community. I watched the first few eps the first season and thought it was stupid and didn't pay attention again, until I watched this episode. I laughed so hard that I went back and watched all of Season 1. I still laugh watching this scene. Basically Troy crying is comedy gold. i also Troy screaming. This scene is fantastic pay off made funnier because of the rest of the scenes that precede it:

I wonder how closely the show will follow the events of the movie now that is seemingly is catching up to the events of the movie with casting Rihanna as Marion. Marion's appearance in the film is ten years after Norman had already killed his mother. And Marion is basically an embezzler (a rather inept one really) who ends up at the motel while on the lam. Can't help thinking of Bitch Betta Have My Money' (heh), But if they follow even loosely the plot of the movie and plan to end the series with Norman committed then it is the people who come looking for Marion that eventually causes him to get caught. If that is the case I could envision a multi-episode arc but the iconic knifing not being the finale.

She has some fairly noticeable blonde twists in there, though. So unless Sasha came across a Sally's Beauty Supply or they found a settlement with a stylist who does twists and locs, I dunno. However if they do a flashback and we get to see Sasha before the ZA happened where she is rocking her twists while doing firefighter stuff, then that'd be kinda cool.

Awww, thanks.

I guess it depends on how you define 'television' these days. When Community was cancelled from NBC it moved over to Yahoo for its last season. Also technically you don't need a TV to watch Netflix or Hulu original programming. They are considered streaming services so you just need a device capable to receiving them. Tons of people watch shows on tablets. So i guess content created to be streamed on the internet isn't that far removed from Netflix or Hulu. I feel bad for Peter MacNicol, but on the very slim chance this gives Dennis Haysbert a shot I'd be tickled pink. and finally, I think Constance Wu is great and should have gotten the nom. But if I had to kick off any of the other nominees to make room for her, Tracee would not be the one. She is brilliant as Bow and I thought she was overlooked last year. There are a couple on that list that i would jettison way before I'd get to Tracee.

Oh man, I love that casting news! I love the concept of his character even more:

The overall mythology of the series has gotten so convoluted and makes no sense. I loved the earlier books when she was a funny PI who simply solved murders by talking to the dead people. This whole Battle of the Gods things is so dreary and feels like it is being made up as she goes along.

Yeah, the show. Key got a couple of nominations -- he also got one for voice acting I think in another show. But the big one is for performance in Key & Peele. I could understand if he acted rings around Peele, but that simply isn't the case. Watching the show, it is clear the partnership feels almost symbiotic. I remember when it happened last year my knee-jerk reaction was "How do you pick Key without Peele?' So seeing Amy and Tina listed as one performer, it just struck me as odd consider Amy and Tina so equal in talent and performance they are essentially one entity. if this were writing, I'd understand since writing credit is a different animal. Can performance categories submit as a team? Maybe they can and people just do have always do it individually? Or maybe Peele simply chose not to submit himself.

I thought the same thing. They are in a performance category so how does this work? And if this works for them, then why not have both Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele as a duo for their category then? Honestly, Key doesn't work without Peele. And as much as I love KMK, I think Jordan Peele has gotten the shaft yet again. Also, for the umpty year in a row, I will never understand how Saturday Night Live is a Variety show, but the comedians are always lumped in with the comedy acting category. Anyway, I think this was the first time in a long time that I was sort of impressed by the Emmys. Sure they hang onto some things well beyond their sell by date (Downton Abbey, Modern Family) but totally impressed they recognized Aziz Ansari and Super thrilled for the Black-ish crew. Their Season 2 has been fantastic all around. I thought Tracee was overlooked last year so I am happy she was in this year. She is such a natural comedienne she makes it look effortless. Also happy for The Americans love, the continued Tituss Burgess and Andre Braugher recognition, Viola, Taraji, & Tatiana. Tickled by the Lemonade noms. Bummed by the lack of love for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend & Rachel Bloom. I'd totally kick Amy Schumer out of that category and replace her with Rachel. Kinda wish Dennis Haysbert had gotten a guest nod for Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He and Andre Braugher doing their level best to out dead-pan each other was brilliant. Not surprised bu the OINTB shut out. Season 3 was kinda bad.

I watched the first episode of Roadies and was so very massively underwhelmed. From the opening moments with Luke Wilson having sex with a barely old enough Asian nymphette (honestly this felt so uncomfortably fetishistic to have her giggle & parade around naked in front of people) to the caricature of the stalker groupie girl (who looks eerily like the Penny Lane character from Almost famous) everything about it feels stale and uninspired and well, bad. No desire at all to try it again. And glad i made the decision not to because I hear there is a sexual assault in Episode 3 that is played for laughs. Yuck.