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2-episode premiere of the reboot of Scrubs on ABC is tonight.

Season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters on Apple starts tomorrow night, Kurt Russell is in it, I watched the first season but don't remember much, it was over 2 years ago.

Sunday is Yellowstone - Marshals on CBS and DTF STL on Max with Jason Bateman.

Since they originally aired, I've had the first 3 seasons of Scrubs high on my list of favorite sitcom seasons ever. I wouldn't at all say that this reboot is anywhere near those (yet?), but these first two episodes are on par with anything post S3. Only thing I didn't like was....

I do hope that they sprinkle the cameos and easter eggs slowly instead of dumping them in the first 1/2 of the season.

Bro to college babe: "So, what are you doing here at this party?"

Babe: "A ghost of a dead mailman that haunts me told me I need to get out some." (Really happening to her, or she's psychotic or something.)

Bro is taken aback but rolls with it pretty good, says: "What else does the ghost tell you."

What's the movie?

Given that my tournament chess career started in 1992 and was pretty much perfectly aligned with her rise, I'd always been a fan. The documentary didn't really shed any new light on her career for me, but it was interesting to see some of the top male players (including Kasparov) with a revisionist take on her as they were all amazed by her talent and treated her great.

Kasparov in particular was extremely hostile towards her, and a popular "joke" among top male GMs at the time led by him was to call the Polgars "trained dogs" because of how their father raised them. I'll also never forget this interview she gave after Linares 1994 - I can't imagine someone coming up to me after a game I lost and treating me like this:

In Linares, when Kasparov addressed you in the restaurant after your loss against Karpov you felt insulted by his tone.

"Yeah. Probably many people felt this. I felt that he spoke with me because I am a girl. Somebody told me this was his way of talking because he is from Baku. This is the way they talk. And I said, 'I don't care'. Suppose I had already known him for a couple of years, we had had dinner sometimes, and we were friends. Then you can allow yourself such things. But when you try to have a conversation for the first time in your life. Then you're not shouting, are you? Sort of the main point is that you're a big patzer. He said like, 'You never heard of black squares?' And he named another move and said, 'Why didn't you play this?' The next day he found out himself and came up to our room and said, 'Oh yeah, this what I said is losing immediately. The other move is better.' And I felt he didn't care about me or my game. He just cared because I lost to Karpov. I just don't understand. All chess players allow him to speak with them like..."

How did you react?

"I was just shocked. First of all I lost to him the day before. Then I lose against Karpov. No chance at all. Then he comes in when I am having a friendly conversation with Gelfand, Anand and some other people. In the middle of this conversation he starts talking to me. After that I was just shocked and said to these people, 'Who is he to talk to me like I'm a five-year-old kid?' I was so shocked that I just couldn't believe it. Nobody should treat people like they don't know how to play chess."

It'll be tough to beat Jury Duty - but definitely looking forward to Company Retreat.

Thank god Netflix just backed out of the WBD deal and Paramount wins, Netflix has enough woke programming as it is. lol

Now coming soon Paramount+ and HBO Max will be one service.

I’m one season into Southland. Pretty damn good. Definitely dated though. I seem to recall MySpace being mentioned and some chick looked up where one of the cops lived by using a phone book.

top 8 spaces was so much fun, ranking your friends.

Nightmare Alley is positively sick. Loved it. I never even heard of the thing and it has some huge stars in it -- Cooper, Blanchett, Dafoe, and more. My mouth fell open at the ending, was part delighted, part horrified, part LMAO ... figured it out just beforehand about one minute in the nick of time.

I guess it's making and release (2021) was greatly affected by Covid. Maybe why I missed it completely. A 10 in my book.

Yup, I felt similarly about the movie!!! I loved the dark tone, Cooper and Blanchett, the engaging narrative, etcetera, etc.

Really good movie. It was nominated for 4 Academy Awards, but didn't win any. Guillermo Del Toro consistently delivers.

I often forget that sitcoms used to do more than 8 episodes every 3 years. It's refreshing to not have to be so precious with my watching.

I'm on S2 and enjoying it.

Interestingly enough, I actually met Cheryl Hines at the 2010(?) WSOP outside a 2P2 meet up! She was SUPER nice! Unfortunately the picture seems lost to history.

DTF St. Louis is good.

Anybody remember a movie years ago, not sure how many, a courtroom drama must have been, where a mathematician took the stand to testify, and on cross examination he didn't know his own phone number or address ... was getting dementia and all numerical stuff had abandoned him?

Proof

you're thinking of this

Nyooop. It's a serious courtroom drama but one of the witnesses has dementia and went from expert mathematician to half senile, so that his testimony was worthless, and kind of embarrassing.

In a shock to absolutely no one I never had a Myspace account.

Into season 3 of Southland. This show is GREAT.

I won't say how long it look me to notice the "LA" is emphasized in the show's title. (Hint: it took way too long.)

Might have been Erin Brockovich or Presumed Innocent, something of that ilk. I'd hate to go watching a bunch of movies on a wild goose chase to find that scene where the mathematician fails on the stand with dementia.

Google says possibly A Beautiful Mind or Proof

Linda Cardellini pretty hot in DTF St. Louis tonight.