KIND OF BLUE: James Lileks on the remarkable consistency of the palette in many of Sunday’s Super Bowl ads. “If you watched the Super Bowl, or at least the compilation of the ads, I hoped you noticed The Color and its companion variants…Well it’s just the cool color du jour, that’s all! The companies and products just want to be cool. Why stand out when you can use a palette that makes everything blur together?”

I suppose it beats the depressing fluorescent green tones of everything inside the Matrix — but not by much.

Speaking of Super Bowl ads, the Critical Drinker on the Super Bowl ad for the new Michael Keaton Batman movie the new, stillborn Ezra Miller Flash movie: