I really enjoyed this, it was fun to see Marvel explore the idea of people with superpowers being banned from acting in movies (as opposed to the universe of "The Boys" where actual superheroes star in their superhero movies) through the lens of a goofy Hollywood satire. Ben Kingsley's performance as Iron Man 3 as Trevor, the actor playing The Mandarin, was one of the great one-off MCU roles, so it was brilliant to bring him back and make him a foil to Simon Williams, the superpowered aspiring actor. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has done a lot of action and drama (including superhero roles in "Watchmen" and Aquaman) so I was surprised that he's actually really funny playing Simon as this neurotic, ambitious actor who gets in his own way with his obsessive drive to be a star. Definitely up there with "WandaVision" as one of the best Marvel TV projects. 

This new Tracy Morgan sitcom, created by "30 Rock" showrunner Robert Carlock, is pretty promising. The first episode didn't quite have that relentless joke-after-joke-after-joke rhythm, but even "30 Rock" didn't master that right away, first season episodes can feel a little slow if you watch them now. Daniel Radcliffe is a fun choice to be Morgan's foil, and his character claims to be a University of Maryland professor from Baltimore (spoiler: his backstory is revealed to be a lie). 

I don't know how many people are in the Venn diagram that are interested in both a dark comedy starring Keke Palmer and a reboot of the Tom Hanks cult classic The 'Burbs, I'm definitely in there but even I'm a little iffy about the results. So much of The 'Burbs is specific to its era and Joe Dante's tone, things like Corey Feldman as a metalhead teen, and the whole concept of paranoia and intrigue in a suburban cul de sac was moderately novel at the time. It's just hard to do this show now without it feeling like a generic post-"Desperate Housewives" thing, and in the episodes I've watched so far Palmer hasn't really gotten to be hilarious like she was in One of Them Days or Nope. So I'm enjoying it, and there's a great supporting cast including Paula Pell and Mark Proksch, but I'm kind of hoping it builds some more momentum by the end of the season. 

ABC/Disney+ has taken the unusual step of making a one-off special episode of "The Muppets," in the variety show style of the old '70s "Muppet Show," with the plan to wait and see how it does before they greenlight a series. That has irritated some people, justifiably, but it feels like there's been a lot of so-so attempts to keep the Muppets franchise going in recent years so I understand them moving cautiously. The early numbers look promising, though, and the episode, with Sabrina Carpenter as the token guest host human, was really good, I'm hoping we'll get more. 

Bert Kreischer is a standup comic who's famous for his kind of one-note 'big fat party animal who takes his shirt off onstage' persona, I'm not a huge fan but I think he's moderately charming, I liked him when he used to be a frequent guest on a local morning radio show. Apparently a magazine profile of him as a college student was the basis of Van Wilder, so he's just been milking that for decades. "Free Bert" is a sitcom where Kreischer plays a fictionalized version of himself with actors playing his family, it derives most of the comedy from Kreischer earnestly wanting to be more than just a one-trick-pony who takes his shirt off for a laugh, and fish-out-of-water bits about him living in an upper class suburb among doctors and lawyers. It's a decent show, nothing special, but there are some really funny scenes with Kreischer and Lilou Lang, who plays his younger daughter. 

I imagine Andrew Lincoln has his pick of projects now, and his first non-"Walking Dead" series in a long time is "Coldwater," created by an award-winning playwright David Ireland. I'm really not enjoying at all, just feels kind of dreary and melodramatic and I'm not curious at all where this ominous story is going. 

This 3-hour HBO docuseries directed by Judd Apatow is a delight. I read Brooks's memoir All About Me! a couple years ago so I knew a lot of the details of the story already but it's delightful to see Brooks talk about it all with clips of his work. There's a really funny bit in the doc where Silent Movie screenwriter Ron Clark actually points out that Brooks took credit for one of his jokes in the memoir ("I called Mel and he said 'it was funny so I just assumed it was my idea'"). The doc does a great job of highlighting the principles and philosophy behind Brooks's approach to comedy and directing, and there's some beautiful stories, I especially liked the part about turning The Producers into a Broadway show. 

I feel like people have gotten good and sick of topical comedy/news satire shows as a genre but I still generally like them, and this CNN show has become a reliably enjoyable part of my watching routine along with "The Daily Show" and "Last Week Tonight." And because "Have I Got News For You" is less scripted than those shows, sometimes it feels like the panelists get to really react to how outrageous the news is in a more genuine and visceral way, Amber Ruffin in particular does not mince her words. 

Another decent canceled Netflix find from my son, with Haley Joel Osment voicing a corgi who's the captain of a spaceship.  

Another old Netflix find, this produced by Pharrell Williams and explaining scientific concepts for kids, I'm disappointed this didn't continue for more than one season.