I consider myself a football agnostic. Outside of the Todd Road Thanksgiving Bowl, I never played the sport as a kid. The liberal arts college I attended didn’t have a football program. Though I follow the […]
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The Strawberry Criterion: The Mulaney Pilot
The three best American stand-up comedians currently living are, in my opinion and deliberate order, Mike Birbiglia, Louis C.K., and John Mulaney, whose eponymous sitcom, Mulaney, premiered last night on FOX. Under no circumstances should you watch […]
Speculative Fan Fiction: True Detective Season 2
News broke yesterday that Vince Vaughn (The Dilemma) and Colin Farrell (Ondine) would be playing two of the four purported leads in the second season of HBO’s popular existential cop drama True Detective. According to a confused unpaid […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Knick Pilot
Healthcare is currently the largest industry in the United States of America. Thanks in large part to momentous advances in sanitation and medical technology, human life expectancy has nearly doubled over the last 100 years, […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Leftovers Pilot
In The Leftovers, HBO’s new prestige drama, two percent of the world’s population spontaneously disappears into thin air. The pope vanishes. Gary Busey dematerializes. Car seats are left barren all over the world. No explanation is […]
My Bachelorette Questionnaire Answers
The contestant bios for the tenth season of The Bachelorette have been released, confirming that my application for the competition has been rejected for the tenth consecutive year. Once again, twenty-seven mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers will vie for […]
All The Newsroom Season 2 Recaps I Wrote, Now In One Convenient Place
With Jeff Daniels’s unlikely win at last night’s 65th annual Emmy Awards, the television industry confirmed that it is willing to cross a desert on its knees to suck the dick of the 18-49 demographic, […]
Recapping Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 13: To’hajiilee: The Diary of Flynn White
(Please note: These diaristic recaps of the final eight episodes of AMC’s Breaking Bad are written from the point of view of Walter “Flynn” White Jr., the son of Walter and Skyler White. Given this conceit, certain […]
Requested: The BPoFD Fall TV Watch List 2013 Edition
Being a white American with a social circle the size of a penny and a spiritual unease the size of the Milky Way, I watch a lot of television. I have, for example, watched the […]
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