Eh what a dull slog of a finale to end a dull slog of a season.  Disappointments all around, although there's no denying that Anya's stuff looked great.  Great prints, great movement, and in the absence of anything like quality from her competition, she was a shoo-in for the win.

As much as I love (and prefer) Community, I'd disagree with you on these points.  P&R's done a good job fleshing out Pawnee with a broader slate of recurring characters, and it feels much more lived-in than the insular Greendale.  P&R's characters are also more nuanced than Community's, where they're a bit broader and…

Isn't the Ann subplot just a continuation of her attempts to make Ron Swanson treat her like a human being?  This came up a couple weeks ago, when she plotted to get him and April to speak to her for a whole minute (or whatever).  I'll agree she's been pretty directionless, but I thought her behavior tonight was in…

That was Eli Roth.

I don't think Don't Look Now had much to do with the Grindhouse trailer… It's not nearly that kind of film, and even the trailer for DLN has very little in common with 'Don't'

I should have added: it's not that the show isn't trying to do character stuff… It's just not very good at it.  The whole thing about Andrea and the gun?  Terrible.  Just terrible.

"the CDC was a big step in the right direction"

Allow it.

For once I'll agree: the US law is better in this case.  Satire should be protected, and this is clearly satire (even if it's not very good).

She gave the weirdest interview about this, a short while back:

Key point: she won this in London.  The U.K. has much narrower rules for speech when it comes to things like parody, libel, etc.   She'd be laughed out of the court in the U.S., and not just for the frivolous lawsuit.

Спасибо за фотки!

This review feels as exhausted and mean-spirited as I feel when I watch the show now.  So… kudos, John.  You've captured exactly what it's like to slog through the rest of this season.

I can make a solid case for Assault on Precinct 13, too.  And there's a lot to like about Escape from New York.  Ebert seems to think Starman is a classic.

Really minor typo, Zack, but the expression is "to wit" rather than "to whit".

Well, that's not an accurate description of the Carpenter film.  Remember that a good  portion of Carpenter's film is procedural: they investigate who could have gotten infected, and when, and under what circumstances.  That makes the reveals during the 'test' even more fulfilling.

Some missed opportunities and obvious jokes in there, but the episode had two major strong points:

""Their father tried to socialize them through what the brothers 
cheerfully refer to as “puppetry-based sex education” and “friendship 
simulation” but succeeded only in making them hopelessly dependent upon 
each other."

I'm not sure about the "if you die in your dream" trope, but the "state of suspended dream-consciousness at the moment of death" thing certainly goes way back, and was used a number of times by Ambrose Bierce (not just Owl Creek Bridge).  The one Bierce adaptation that aired on TZ wasn't actually produced by the TZ…

Fair enough… I just found it annoying the way they kept reversing things to the point of pointlessness.  If this is going to be a contest about skill, fine, but once you've thrown your designers into a nothing-matters set of rules that change for no reason, it's less a skill contest and more a … Well, I don't know…