It was just jaw-droppingly ambitious, the way they set up an arc that could sustain a whole season and then threw it away.

To be fair, Dexter's third season wasn't good either. The show's third good season was the fourth (so if Homeland was following the Dexter model, expect an inspired casting of a renowned actor as a season villain next season.)

The negative reaction is mostly in the comments, which turned on Homeland during the second season and has remained largely negative since.

Not available in the US. Which is also why Moone Boy's 2012 season is eligible or they make reference to the first Black Mirror.

Also: Chelsea Peretti.

And now you know: Moone Boy is great.

What do you egg when you graduate then?

Yeah I feel Kill la Kill would likely alienate a non-anime viewer, and while I enjoyed it at first, I've sort of mellowed on it.

I'm not saying Gene's vision is possible either, I'm just saying none of the wrinkles DS9 added to it made it an actually more plausible setting. It might be fair to say it made it a more interesting setting.

That's hardly jokey? I imagine nobody knowing how to pronounce your name after working in the same place for three years is not a punchline.

Moone Boy is my retroactive pick for best series of 2012 and simply the funniest comedy of the past couple of years. The thing makes me grin like a bloody idiot, and even though I'm slightly younger than the show's period (and not from the country) it really does make me think about my time in primary school in…

Hell it was a tradition at my secondary school.

Nothing I'd off-handedly remember him from, anyway. I just scanned IMDB and there's the odd guest spot I've seen or minor film role.

The Picard and Data show was more the movies, really. TNG was an ensemble, but it was an ensemble where Picard is a key player in virtually every episode, and it's true it is more invested in the backstories of Data and Worf (another very strong presence) than it is of the rest of the cast. But it had a good sense of…

And even that is really Deb development.

Alright, but I feel something like Scrubs is probably more applicable, as the series self-consciously digs at in the new season promos (and I don't even like Scrubs.)

Also Saracen at the funeral.

Ensemble is a post-Kirk thing, Kirk was always the central character on the original show. The subsequent ones are ensembles to varying degrees (most fully on DS9, in that it is the one Trek which is more than content to have the captain play a fairly minor role in many episodes.)

It would compete with Hannibal, The Americans, Sleepy Hollow, Masters of Sex, Rectify… it was a good year for freshman TV shows, basically.

What is it with him and the whole 'two normal names' shtick? He's using fake names like how you would in real life.