I recognize that AHS as a franchise isn't perfect. But damn if it's not one of my most reliably fun-as-hell viewing experiences. The intro to this new season was no exception. I just love the over the top-ness of it. I feel like everyone working on that show is having a COMPLETE BLAST, and it's infectious.…

I was hoping he would do one last cook, "for old times sake." Then cue "Big Rock Candy Mountain," and the ghosts of everyone who's died at his hands would come out to help make the best, most perfect batch ever.

Yeah this is definitely one of those things I just assume already existed.

God he is fucking amazing. The actor and writers just nailed, nailed, nailed everything about his smug, smarmy, overbearing, foreign-artist-can-you-believe-this-fucking-guy persona. But then they start to reveal his cracks and faults, the things that humanize him, and he's still ridiculous, but he's real, and…

Ken getting Dick Cheneyed, plus the Nader dig made me feel a weird flashback (from present)/flash forward (from Mad Men time) to the aughts.

This episode has stuck with me as one of the standouts of the series. This is the one where I realized, shit, I fucking love these characters. The thought of Nate dying was deeply troubling, and the reveal that he was alive was just this incredible…relief. But beyond Nate, the episode felt like catching up with old…

Definitely my favorite joke of the episode.

In Black Swan, Aronofsky did a nice job portraying the nervous onset of taking X that gives way to euphoria and that "holy shit let's go!" feeling. The way he played with fast cuts and suddenly amping up the music felt like a pretty spot-on translation to me. I miss drugs.

Sad to realize this interview clearly came before "the call" from HBO. But I'm glad Mike White got to create this amazing show. I think he was smart to wrap it up the way he did, so it exists as its own fully formed work. What a wonderfully understated, compelling, and unique bit of television. Keep being awesome,…

I agree with those points. You are not alone! I wanted to like it — sexy/intriguing premise, period not often explored (though I bet a year from now we'll all be hating on all the terrible 80s period dramas The Americans spawns), but in addition to the plot problems you point out, the characters really fell flat for…

When they began with the Richard Clarke bit, I had a brief fantasy that the show might become a time-traveling Sliders/Star Trek-style jaunt through the greatest news stories in history, wherein each episode they would have to figure out what period of slightly alternate recent history they were had landed in and how…

When they began with the Richard Clarke bit, I had a brief fantasy that the show might become a time-traveling Sliders/Star Trek-style jaunt through the greatest news stories in history, wherein each episode they would have to figure out what period of slightly alternate recent history they were had landed in and how…

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Colin didn't take all that long to explain the choice to sign to a major label. And his explanation was pretty rational, I thought.