Check it Out

Culture writer Joe Gross on what's trending (and what should be) in television, movies, comics and culture, popular and not-so-popular.

Your favorite ‘Office Space’ character was based on one of Mike Judge’s coworkers

12:14 pm Apr. 13, 2017

The New York Times Magazine this week sports a profile of Mike Judge, one of the most visionary humorists of our age. No, really — look at his CV if you haven’t in a …

The Emmys: 20 thoughts on who was nominated, who should win and who was snubbed

5:46 pm Jul. 14, 2016

The nominations for the 68th Emmy Awards are out and, to the surprise of exactly nobody, “Game of Thrones” picked up 23 nods.
The completely amazing “The People v. O.J. Simpson” picked up 22 noms, …

Welcome to Check It Out. Feel free to leave your shoes on, it’s cool.

1:57 pm Mar. 28, 2016

So, there will be a lot of different stuff going on in this blog:

All sorts of television – the great, the not-so-great and “Vinyl,” a show that should really be called

Movie things that don’t …