It was better than Cbeebies does Wall Street, at least.

I remember when people took true blood seriously.   It was going to be all about prejudice and miscegenation and metaphors and had great southern gothic atmosphere.    That lasted about three episodes, followed by six seasons of whatever this is.   There is such a thing as a fate worse than cancellation.

You should probably know that there's quite a lot of child murdering in it.   But good performances.

Perfect for a little dry w(h)ine, accompanied by hard cheese.

I think that was Ryan North's story.   I loved it too.

I actually submitted a story for this one but it wasn't accepted.

Monday Wot's On Tonight: unofficial UK edition

@avclub-b48dd5fc197031c2049eee6b819c8768:disqus Larry Clark's 'Bully' is in the same ballpark as Alpha Dog, about kids who can't seem to distinguish between partying hard and heinous criminality.   Only with more nudity.

I just interpreted it as a commentary on government cuts in general.   Keeping vampires and werewolves under control would seem to be the very definition of 'frontline services'.   But Gitmo works too, particularly in light of various misconceived operations that take place later in the series.

I ddn't know he was engaged to Lea Michelle.   The whole thing is very sad, RIP Cory Monteith.

That's weird as heck.   I did watch Top of the lake, found it well executed albeit depressing, so I'll tune in again next week.   But now I'm going to be looking out for transitions that could be the beginnings and ends of episodes.

Yeah, that is grim.   Bad life, bad guy, great films.

I like 666 Park Avenue and I don't know why.   It's like The Devil's Advocate: the TV series, which is a film that I like and I don't really know why (it's not just Charlize Theron).   I feel like I could just sit and watch it every week with tea and toast and be perfectly entertained.

The final season is good and the final final episode is really a triumph, I think, getting maximum value out of both the premise of the show and the powers and proclivities of the season villain.

Wot's on this weekend: unofficial UK version:
Home Grown: The White Queen ep 5 (Sun 9pm BBC1).   Started watching because of great Janet McTeer enunciating her enemies off of the edge of the screen.

Yeah this sounds like exactly the kind of thing I want to see.   It's cheered me up after hearing about the latest day of the dead remake.

Wot's on tonight: unofficial UK version:
Home Grown: Eye Spy (C4 10pm).   I've seen a bit of this show and been interested despite myself.   Not so much in the 'would you intervene to shut up a racist' set-ups, because I feel like in real life that's likely to get you bottled. 
 More stuff like the guys who limited…

@avclub-b6e5391be8277308d0801a0be95ac706:disqus The genotype is the genetic makeup of a cell, an organism, or an individual.   The phenotype is the expression of that genotype as an organism.

It's like if the AV club had a much loved gimmick commenter, and then one day someone else came along and blatantly copied the gimmick for no reason, somehow spoiling what was good about it in the first place, and then everyone was sad and angry about it.

@avclub-b6e5391be8277308d0801a0be95ac706:disqus That's not how natural selection works, though.   A genotype that reduces its own reproductive success doesn't stay around, whether it's good for the species as a whole or not.