Month: January 2020
Watch American treasure J.J. Watt fanboy out over American treasure, the ‘Cheer’ kids
‘The Bachelor’: Don’t Mess with Miss Texas
‘Supernatural’: What is happening right now?
Supernatural
“The Hero’s Journey”
January 23, 2020
THEN
“The hero may have to be brought back from his supernatural adventure by assistance from without. That is to say, the world may have to come and get him … The returning hero, to complete his adventure, must survive the impact of the world. Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold. The first problem of the returning hero is to accept as real, after an experience of the soul-satisfying vision of fulfillment, the passing joys and sorrows, banalities and noisy obscenities of life.”
NOW
Am I high? Am I on drugs right now? What even is this episode?
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‘The Good Place’ is about to go and leave us all alone in the bad place.
President Dumpsterfire’s lawyers are not doing him any favors
HERE COMES THE WAR WALRUS TO MESS UP TRUMP’S YAM SHAM!
The finales of ‘The Good Place,’ ‘Arrow,’ and ‘BoJack Horseman,’ The Super Bowl, J.J. Watt on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week
In which Adam Driver continues to be one of the most consistently great ‘Saturday Night Live’ hosts
Saturday Night Live
Adam Driver & Halsey
January 25, 2019
Adam Driver specializes in intensity. The characters he is known for tend to be barely containing their emotions, be it rage or anger or rage … And so it’s easy to forget — even after having hosted Saturday Night Live twice before — that he’s a brilliant comic actor. Now, a lot of that humor is based in his perceived intensity; in fact, three of my favorite sketches from last night were firmly predicated on the idea that Driver’s characters are on the edge of becoming dangerous (or, in the case of Kylo Ren, have firmly crossed it). But I’m not complaining — this weekend’s Saturday Night Live was funny (almost) from beginning to end, thanks in large part to Driver being such a great comic actor that he elevates what might otherwise be a mediocre bit in the hands of a less funny actor.
