Last summer John Oliver took the reigns for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, while Jon went away and filmed a movie. I guess HBO was watching because Oliver really did a phenomenal job and as such was offered a weekend gig on HBO. John Oliver's new show, called Last Week Tonight launched a few weeks back and so far Jenn and I are hooked.

I've mentioned a few times how big fans Jenn and I are off The Daily Show. Its a staple in the Szerlip household and we still have not stopped laughing from the #McConnelling craze of a month ago. For some reason we started talking about it on a walk a few nights back and I just cannot stop watching these videos. So a little context. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky put together a new ad for his senate race. 

First and foremost I cannot believe I got Jenn to go see this with me. But somehow the stars aligned just right and we went to go see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 this past Friday night (opening night for the movie) and I for one am glad we did. We walked over to Big Newport Cinemas after eating some El Ranchito Takeout. When we got to the theater it was buzzing with people and not one but two guys in Spider-Man costumes taking pictures with kids and getting them pumped for the movie. 

I try very hard not to just post videos on my blog and call them proper entries. A couple of years ago I tried posting more frequently and one of the ways I did that was posting funny or interesting video. Looking back it felt like a disservice to the World of Joel. However today I came across a video that I feel truly captures the magic of one of my favorite TV shows of all time, Breaking Bad. It's a video that spans the entire series without spoiling too much and captures the rise and fall of Walter White.

I consider the first few previews of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty to be some of the best I've seen. The trailers call for you to join them on this epic adventure and as such this movie seemed to be right in my wheelhouse. So after missing it in theaters (not willingly) during the holidays last year, Jenn and I rented it this past weekend on Amazon.

We are officially hooked. Believe me both Jenn and I scoffed at the idea of watching New Girl. We'd seen clips of it. I'd even watched an episode or two on a flight but never thought I'd get this hooked. Around a month ago I caught a cold and was home from work and needing something to watch. I saw New Girl on Netflix and decided I'd give an episode a go. Eight episodes later Jenn got home from work and I re-watched all eight of those episodes with Jenn and the rest is history.