Duncan thinking he was Pierce made my day.

This is the fifth season. By this point Sam and Diane had gone through so many crazy permutations and a last-minute whisked away from an altar in Italy that I can't even begin to graph it.

Communists? Is that what we're calling ourselves now?

I've seen Zodiac and don't remember much of it, so I didn't realize this was a Zodiac parody.

You just know he right that second appointed himself that, which made it better.

I think I know why they're doing that TV Roundtable on sitcoms dealing with death now. Or whatever the roundtable's exact theme was about I just wanted to read about the clown funeral.

Well the important thing is they do sell it as such, you know?

It was kind of a parody of… serial killer hunting media, I guess? Whatever genre we want to say that Zodiac, Hannibal and the Bridge all have in common.

Very obviously the scene where Abed is asked to figure out the crime scene - while taking digs at other 'special' detectives on TV - felt like it was more specifically Hannibal than those other shows. I half-expected Abed to say 'This is my design.'

I guess I'd have to see Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, because the idea of Dave Matthews as a stand-in for Enya just feels a bit weird.

He also deleted episodes of The Bridge, which (in the Danish and British versions, anyway) has an autistic detective.

Pierce's death belonged in the episode about the death, which is obviously next week. Here it was just a bit '…huh?'

Yeah I'm not anti-puerile humour, but I don't feel saying 'butts' is in and of itself funny. I guess they needed a silly alternative to murder and I was fine with it in that context (Garrett sells the hell out of it) but that's about it.

Yeah, whenever that airs.

If he ever thought he'd get ten seasons, he's kidding himself.

While Boardwalk Empire is one of the best shows visually on TV for sure, I'm not sure I'd call it the best.

It's also oddly the closest thing HBO has in their lineup to another Game of Thrones-style show, in the sprawling interconnected cross-continental narratives… even if executed in a very different manner. I'm almost finished season four and it's been one long, interesting watch.

Well it's a period drama, and those are always more expensive than regular. I'd long feared that Boardwalk Empire might not make it to a fourth season for that reason (look at Rome! Carnivale! Deadwood!…. and all three of those shows probably got better press than BE.)

Nobody is discussing Saldana as a partner.

I think some of the criticisms are fair, but it's an enjoyable movie and I got a real kick out of it. Certainly when it comes to heavily criticized blockbusters of the past few years Prometheus is probably the one I liked the best.