It hurts, doesn’t it? The whole Team Coco thing was a great idea. When Coco himself was allowed to do his show again on TBS, however, it fell apart. The quick wit and irreverent silliness has disappeared and has instead been replaced with boring, rote interviews and skits that go nowhere (in a very bad way). The FedEx Pope, Shoeverine and The Masturbating Bear have been replaced with a sadness that can seemingly only be explained by an embittered host who is coasting by on whatever goodwill came from losing his dream of hosting The Tonight Show. If the show was funny or had heart I would still be on board, but when The COB lacks both of those elements it becomes a sad exercise in how not to produce a late night talk show. Couple that with the fact that Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are killing it right now and all you can do is pine for the days when Conan was sharp and hungry, and mourn the loss of one of the funniest men that late night TV has ever seen. RIP COB. You are already missed. – JRN

Watch Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes is the reason we have an onslaught of “detective/doctor/lawyer who is the best at their job, but terrible with people” shows. He’s the original brilliant detective who is very probably high-functioning on the “spectrum” (you know what I mean). His story has been told numerous times, but never this good. Sherlock (which is streaming on Netflix) is set in present day London and – as in any good story – it’s not the mysteries that drive the show but the interactions between the two lead characters. Benedict Cumberpatch (seriously) is Sherlock, and plays him perfectly with a distance that borders on disdain for the rest of the world. Martin Freeman (Bilbo!) is John Watson, and plays him as a bitter veteran recently returned from Afghanistan. Freeman handles Watson’s interactions with Cumberpatch’s Sherlock beautifully. So often the friendships in these shows ring false but these two shine by showing that it’s the game of solving mysteries that brings them together. The show airs in 3 episode seasons, each around 90 minutes. It’s basically 3 movies a season, and the quality is there. There’s a reason the two lead actors are starting to show up in EVERYTHING and you’re going to want to rub it in your friends’ faces that you watched this show before them. Watch it if you don’t like House, Elementary or Psych because this is what they all want to be and can’t come close to – MG