It’s Also Even Sadder Than You Think it Is Warning: Spoilers for the movie below. If You haven’t seen it yet, I’m about to basically give away the whole film. That doesn’t mean you still shouldn’t see it, though. Once asked to describe Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis’ masterpiece about…

Part 1: Origin Story, Or The Parents Were Much Better Than Their Offspring When the CW was purchased by Nexstar earlier this year, they made relatively clear that there was going to be a fundamental change in their approach to programming, mainly they would be more interesting in keeping costs…

And Full Credit To Her Fellow Finalists As Well After an epic six-game battle, Amy Schneider finally managed to win the 2022 Tournament of Champions, defeating Andrew He and Sam Buttrey. In a season of historic streaks, there was always a question as to which of the super-champions would emerge…

History is (Finally) Made Editor’s Note: In my previous article on this subject, my listing of Jeopardy champions who had double digit winning streaks but had poor luck in the Tournament of Champions, I omitted Matt Jackson who won 13 games in Season 32. My original argument still holds true…

Jen and Judy are Back and Their Lives Are More Complicated, Darker — And Funnier -Then Ever One of the streaming series that helped get me through 2020 was when I basically binged (read: saw two episodes per week) the first two seasons of Netflix’s remarkable Dead to Me. To…

They’ve Been Telling People The World Was Ending Before It Was Hip When I was a teenager I had a subscription to a magazine called Story, one of those few publications devoted to the publications of original short works of fiction. Already an endangered species in the 1990s, it went…

Until They Weren’t Many of the people who criticize the Constitution these days and say that the founders didn’t take in to account the modern world usually don’t take consider the way America worked back that. The idea of term limits, for example, is something that is fundamentally criticized by…

Tim Bayliss and Frank Pembleton: Unmatched in Every Respect While going through several online sites, I found myself looking at an article listing the greatest TV characters of all time, a list that is almost always in flux. I was not surprised (but very happy) to see Frank Pembleton, even…

Partners on the Street, Part 1: Exploding the Myth of Partners as Brothers in Blue Almost from the beginning of television as a medium, the police procedural has always believe in the idea of eternal partners. No doubt the lion’s share of this is due to the idea of consistency…