While I was watching Community in the same timeslot as Bones this fall, I missed a lot of episodes, and also missed the shuttering of Obsessed With Bones, a cheerful and kindly fansite for the show I read from time to time and which was often generous enough to link to things I wrote. I was surprised at how sorry I was at the news. Wendy kept up a good site with a constructive commenting... 

I often think that the careers of folks who started out as Daily Show correspondents is illustration of why supporting actors are so important. Take Cedar Rapids, in which Ed Helms is clearly the supporting actor in his own movie: Without that slight blank, cheerfulness, though, the other characters wouldn’t have the catalyst they need to turn in what looks like a reasonably amusing series... 

Thanks to a tweet from Shani, I devoured this two-part series on dancehall music and homophobia in Jamaica over the weekend. I won’t say anything else about it specifically because I really, really hope that people go read it. But to me, this is what’s important and interesting about cultural criticism. I may bungle my way into arguments over movie trailers, or gush over Robyn, but really,... 

Charlie Jane Anders’ exploration of the turning point in the eighties when science fiction movies took the leap and became franchises, rather than one-offs, is a wise look at the commercial developments that shaped the entertainment landscape we live in now. But as much as inevitable sequels to sci-fi movies generally trouble us these days, the move towards franchising also represents a truer... 

However ridiculous it is as a franchise, can we all agree that it is somewhat delightful that a mincing one-off outlasted the purported and bland hero and heroine of the original Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and that the series has now become a showcase for exceedingly talented actors to have an enormous amount of silly fun? I mean, come on, how drunk do you think Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush... 

As year-end lists have poured in, it’s been nice to see Community top or near the top of so many rankings of the best thing on television. I’m in something of withdrawal over the show’s hiatus already, and my thoughts are turning, rather grimly, of what it’s going to take for the series to survive. In some ways, Community reminds me of 30 Rock. Like its network sibling, Community... 

Well, it’s not a full-on superheroine movie, and it’s not the She-Hulk television show I sometimes dream that Joss Whedon and David Kelley will get drunk and try to create. But I’m glad to see the CW is making a series about a superpowered teenage girl. The fact that the dude helming the show has done work on the intriguing combination of Buffy, The Shield, Without a Trace and... 

One of the reasons British shows and movies about journalists are so great is that the English accept a raffishness in reporters and editors that we Americans normally only deem acceptable in cops. Which is the main reason I’m so excited to hear that Dominic West is playing a journalist in a high-end British television series. Take Dan Foster from State of Play: Add some muscle mass, and subtract... 

Given the slight Sense and Sensibility kick I’m on, I was a bit concerned about the upcoming modernization of the series with a Latina twist, From Prada to Nada. Fortunately, we’ve got a trailer I can agonize over: I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about this. Sure, the main characters before they lose their money have more in common with the novel’s social climbers, and... 

I’m glad to hear that Kevin Keller, the gay character Archie comics introduced this summer, is getting a spin-off series. I just hope they give him a boyfriend, or at least a love interest. I’m all for getting teenaged gay characters in all sorts of media. But I think it’s really important that their struggles and character growth not be limited to struggles with basic acceptance,...