When I’ve written about Happy Endings in the past, I’ve usually kept the writeups short because “I would just be quoting hilarious line and ridiculous plot after hilarious line and ridiculous plot.” I fear I may have done that here anyway, but beyond simply wanting to recap some of my favorite jokes, bits, and plots, […]
If you’ve been reading anything I’ve written about favorite recent shows, if you follow me on social media at all, or even if we’ve just otherwise happened to talk in the last couple of weeks, you probably have already heard me raving about Paul T. Goldman. It’s probably better if you skip the rest of […]
I Think You Should Leave‘s first season was released without much fanfare– beyond those of us who were already Tim Robinson fans— in 2019, but rapidly gained a following and became one of the cultural phenomena of the year. The sketches, largely built around ego and avoiding embarrassment, with behavior motivated by such being […]
I usually don’t cover sports personalities in my pop-culture writing, but John Madden’s reach transcended football. He got his start in coaching almost immediately out of college (he played in college and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but a knee injury in his first training camp ended his career before it even began), […]
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. -John Wooden I wrote about Ted Lasso season one more than once because the show captivated me and demanded deeper analysis: Here was a comedy that could’ve coasted on good vibes and niceness and even tipped into the realm […]
First, I wanted to start this off with this lovely excerpt from Norm’s Based on a True Story— an ostensible memoir packed with loads of obvious, hilarious bullshit– posted today by Sean O’Neal: I think about these two and a half pages from Norm Macdonald’s book constantly. When I reviewed it, I wrote that they […]
(Spoilers for Ted Lasso follow, eventually.) I generally think the “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” attitude is a good one to have. I’m not a pessimist in the sense that I think the worst will always happen, but I try to keep a realistic grasp of, well, reality, and what I […]
Be curious, not judgmental. -Walt Whitman You got no time for the messenger Got no regard for the thing that you don’t understand You got no fear of the underdog That’s why you will not survive -Spoon, “The Underdog” Ted Lasso might have seemed like an odd choice for a property to […]
Get a Life was certainly not the most successful or influential of FOX’s early “throw it at the wall and see what sticks” approach to programming (both of those, obviously, would be The Simpsons), but it might come in #2 on the latter regard, given the comic talent that started out on that show, […]
Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief. As long as you make room for other things, too. -Reginald “Bubbles” Cousins Some spoilers for Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist season 1 follow, though I tried to stay as vague as possible when possible. It was often not possible. When I first heard about Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, […]
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