Category: Entertainment Talk

The family is back together at the planned halfway mark of the Brockmire saga. Last week’s second-season finale brought the title character’s straight man back to relay another big-league job offer. His first employer on the climb back up and stop-and-start flame soon followed. And so, Jim, Charles and Jules fittingly left off in a…

At this point in the summer, Game of Thrones usually captures audiences’ attention with its Sunday premieres. However, with the show on hiatus until 2019, fans are still anticipating the climactic final season. For now, they can only speculate about the future of this world, both on screen and in print. This month HBO announced its plans for a possible prequel focusing…

In some ways, the Durham Athletic Park (DAP) and the Durham Bulls Athletic Park (DBAP) are Crash Davis and Nuke LaLoosh in the latter stages of Bull Durham. The old Bulls’ pen is left to foster younger, up-and-coming talent as the home of North Carolina Central University baseball. Its time in baseball is not exactly…

One could argue Brooklyn Nine-Nine is now in its natural habitat. NBC had preexisting ties to the five-year-old Fox sitcom before salvaging it from the latter network’s bin this past week. As USA Today’s Gary Levin assessed, “NBC’s Universal Television owns the comedy…so extending it figures to increase profits on the show and give the…

Fittingly, this weekend’s new episode of Family Guy  goes by the title “V is for Mystery.” According to a brief teaser printed on Futon Critic, it will be another one of the recurring Brian-Stewie Griffin adventures, this time with a classic 19th-century Great Britain backdrop. Little else is known going in, except how hard it…

Earlier this month, Jeopardy! home viewers finally got to see one of the show’s latest tweaks in action. Contestants Laura McLean and Sarah Norris had each earned $6,799 at the end of the final round. Until 2016, they would have returned as co-champions, but now they had elicited the first use of a tiebreaker. The…

I cannot bring myself to watch any more reruns of That ’70s Show. Former core cast member Danny Masterson has pulled an irreversible cloud of unpleasantness over his character’s legacy. That was bad enough for Netflix to cut him from his more recent endeavor, The Ranch. And it is bad enough to sully Steven Hyde.…

No sporting event in the latter half of the ’90s was complete unless it began with the first two tracks of Jock Jams. Faceoff, first pitch, kickoff or tipoff, they all had to wait for Michael Buffer and 2 Unlimited. The recording of Buffer’s (literal) trademark guttural “Let’s get ready to rumble!” shared pockets with…

“Just drop it!” Mitch snaps in an uproariously misconstrued fit of frustration during Modern Family’s eighth-season premiere. Mitch had solely witnessed the passing of his grandmother-in-law, who made two appearances on the series. His rocky relationship with Grams locks him in a near no-win situation. In turn, our highlight and his lowlight of the funeral is…