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 "Wow.  You guys are real downers.  I can't believe I made out with both of you." -Jeff Winger "The Psychology of Letting Go" picks up with Annie (Alison Brie) and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) putting together a diorama to help raise money for the cleanup of an oil spill.  Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) wasn't invited to participate and feels left out.  Troy (Donald Glover) arrives and reveals that he found Pierce's mom (Pat Crawford Brown) dead in the laundry room that morning.  When Pierce (Chevy Chase) arrives, the group tries to offer him their condolences, but he maintains that his mom isn't dead.  Because she was a Level 5 Laser Lotus, her spirit is being stored in an energy pod until technology advances far enough for her to be given a new body.  The rest of the group is concerned about Pierce's denial, but Jeff (Joel McHale) tells them all to calm down and respect Pierce's beliefs. Annie manages to raise more money than Britta.  Britta gets...

 "Okay, that was really good." -Yelena Belova When a group of notorious antiheroes are caught in a deadly trap, they must put aside their differences and find a way to work together to escape, survive, and defeat the real enemy. Spoilers Below!  This is a tough movie to talk about without getting into spoilers, so I'll just say this movie is great and my favorite MCU movie since  Avengers: Endgame .  Spoilers Below! What Works: I don't know if anyone predicted that Thunderbolts* would be about depression, but I certainly didn't.  That is the main theme of this movie.  All of these characters have done bad things and have to live with that.  They can either let it bring them down or they can try to do better, but a few of the characters are struggling to cope with the depression they feel about what they've done.  And the villain of the movie, the Void (Lewis Pullman), is just depression personified.  It's a really powerful and emotional story...

 "Fried chicken and waffles!" Well, this episode was pretty much a race to the bottom.  It had some funny moments, but this was definitely a below average episode of Survivor and easily my least favorite episode of the season.  The fact that it was a choice between Mary and Star was just ridiculous and frustrating.  Let's get into who played well and who sucked. Who Played Well: Taking out Star was a great move for the alliance of Eva, Joe, and Shauhin for sure.  It keeps them in power and any of them could win against the others in the end.  Picking off the people at the bottom is smart on their part.  They made Mitch feel comfortable enough to stick with them, plus Joe won Immunity, and I liked the conversation Eva had with Mary after Tribal Council. It sucks for Mary to lose Star as I think Star was probably the only person Mary could beat at the end.  But it wasn't her choice or her fault that it happened.  She was put in a desperate situ...

It's that time again: The Snubby Awards!  For those of you who don't know, the Snubby Awards take a look at all of the Best Picture nominees from a given year and determine if the best film won or if another was snubbed.  If that's the case, they win the coveted Snubby Award! This time we'll be taking a look at the 1996 Oscars, which was a mixed bag of movies.  I loved three of them and really didn't care for the other two, but I recognize I probably wasn't the target market for either of them.  The nominees were: Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino: The Postman, & Sense and Sensibility  with the winner being  Braveheart.   Did  Braveheart  deserve to win or did another movie get snubbed?  Let's find out! #5. Il Postino: The Postman When I was preparing for this incarnation of the Snubby Awards, I looked ahead at the nominated movies to read a basic synopsis.  Once I read the one for Il Postino , I felt only dread for what was to c...

 "My whole brain is crying!" -Troy Barnes "Accounting for Lawyers" picks up with the Dean (Jim Rash) announcing the "Pop and Locktober Fest" dance competition.  Most of the study group wants to compete, but an annoyed Jeff (Joel McHale) has no interest and leaves.  He ends up running into Alan Connor (Rob Corddry), a lawyer from his old law firm.  Jeff is embarrassed to be seen at Greendale, but Alan doesn't judge as he's at Greendale attending a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.  Jeff and Alan go out for a drink and soon Jeff starts spending more time with Alan than the study group and starts to fall back to his old, morally ambiguous ways. Chang (Ken Jeong) additions for a spot on the study group's dance team and when Jeff tells them he won't be on the team, the others agree to let Chang join.  He demands that if they win the competition, he gets to join the study group. Annie (Alison Brie) realizes she knows Alan from Narcotics Anonymous and ...

 "Please...I can't die again." -Melanie One year after the disappearance of her sister, Melanie (Maia Mitchell), Clover (Ella Rubin) and her friends take a road trip to see Melanie's last known location.  They end up discovering a clue to her whereabouts, which takes them to the Glore Valley visitor center, where they are all quickly slain by a masked killer.  They find themselves revived to earlier in the night and have to find a way to survive until dawn before they run out of lives.  What Works: This movie takes very little from the game it's based on, which is disappointing in some ways, but the premise they decide to go with is very cool.  It's a bit like Happy Death Day , but each reset brings in some new element of horror to make each night scarier than the last.  That's a fun premise, which adds a puzzle to a standard survival-horror story and assures us lots of creative and gory kills.  I wish I had thought this one up because I just love this...