Insufferable is the perfect word to describe Patrick. For me, his presence is an impediment to enjoying the show; his prominence is nearly a deal-breaker.

"It was halfway through until I noticed Dom wasn’t in the episode. What about you?"

"It's so exciting to be dating a killer!"
"No be fair, I never *successfully* killed anyone."
"<utterly deflated="">Oh. I see."

Oh my god, it wasn't. In a word: interminable.

I want that keychain. This may be what actually incites me to buy a 3D printer.

I always thought that the nacelles were only for warp propulsion, which moves the whole region of space the ship is in rather than generating any point stresses like a rocket. At least in the TNG Enterprise, the "impulse engines" used for sub-light-speed are located on the main hull, pretty close to the ship's center…

Yeah, that Alex line is a great nugget.

I find it completely unsurprising that concertmaster of a major professional orchestra would have the Sibelius polished and memorized, especially since he's old enough to have performed (and taught) it multiple times.

Good call! The last movement was what particularly got me into the Sibelius in the first place. Now I love every second of it.

Yes, this was explicitly explained and fits with her "I'm a rebel" stereotype.

Seconding everyone on the great "found the other aliens" line. Man, I miss my aliens sometimes. But their association does exact a cost. Reminds me of 1) a friend in college who'd transferred from a conservatory because she realized everyone there couldn't talk about anything other than music, and 2) when I dated a…

Did no one else think Rodrigo's interaction with the girl was overly creepy? His lack of boundaries (along with the dreamlike atmosphere) definitely made the scene compelling, but I'm not sure I actually liked it. I felt a disconnect between the empathy I think I was "supposed" to feel and the "Dude, this is a preteen…

No mention of the traditional Anderson Cooper + Kathy Griffin NYE countdown coverage? Their recent NY Times interview together was pretty much the cutest.

This show is such an up-and-down experience for me. I guess as someone who's been fairly immersed (in a student/amateur capacity) in the orchestral world, it's like a tease. It's saying to me, "We're going to thrill you by showing you characters and stories you relate to especially, tantalize you with flourishes of…

The most natural next step I can imagine for Jackson is to make a film (or five) out of The Scouring of the Shire (or whatever it's called) from the end of the LotR trilogy. That could be easier to work with cinematically than a lot of the fairly abstract stories of the Silmarillion.

I was about to write that it seems MP's success comes about not through the charisma or likeability of its actors but through the occasional strength of the writing. But then I remembered how enthralled I am by Chris Messina and Xosha Roquemore even when they're not given anything great to say. So who knows… But I…

It's fantastic. Except to killjoy losers who aren't in love with Carrie Brownstein.

Anything beyond 30 seconds of Eichner screen-time is too much for me. He's going to need to find some range in order to work as a lead.

It's fun for me when I read things like "I’m super frustrated that Lana is barely a character" and my response is, "…who the hell is Lana?"

Yeah, that's one of those jokes with a sell-by date, and in this case it's less than two years after the episode aired. From a modern POV, it's pretty indefensible. A gay-panic joke can work, but it has to look its real-life source squarely in the eyes and laugh at it. Here, the situation relies on the source simply…