Thanks for the review, Todd. It's sometimes difficult to take this show too seriously when so many of the locations are familiar to me (a large portion of the cross-bearing scene was shot on Hoxton Street, which I walk down most days) - and I didn't think it quite hit the moments of contemplation and melancholy that…

I remember buying the album on the first day of release - I had really enjoyed Good Feeling (the title track is still one of my favourite tracks - especially great for post-break up euphoria) - tipping them for great things. And I was there at Glastonbury in '99, standing in the rain (it wasn't really a downpour, but…

First time I saw BSS live - the band started up this song and Lisa Lobsinger drifted onto the stage, barefoot, before joining in with the second verse (I'm guessing) and such was the joy and energy that I actually started crying. What a song.

I'm with you on this. It seemed like a good song, but I never fully appreciated it until I saw them play in concert this year. Played to a crowd that was disinterested at first (they'd come to see the Vaccines, unlike my GF and I who had expressly come to see the Walkmen), the band clearly won them over with…

+1 for Come On Up To The House by Tom Waits, for precisely the reasons Scott mentions. It includes one of my favourite lines of all times: 'come down off the cross, we could use the wood'. So simple, yet so incredibly warm and welcoming and all encompassing.

I agree about Malcolm. I think it may have been an explicit demonstration of why not to think that Malcolm is 'the hero', something that Armando Ianucci said he was confounded by in interviews before the start of this series. Malcolm is a great and funny character, as an antagonist, but here he was just mean - and…

I agree about Malcolm. I think it may have been an explicit demonstration of why not to think that Malcolm is 'the hero', something that Armando Ianucci said he was confounded by in interviews before the start of this series. Malcolm is a great and funny character, as an antagonist, but here he was just mean - and…

I'm a big fan of Twenty Twelve, even if I was a bit baffled by the shortened second series. I think it's quite admirably pitched given that it attempts to make fun of the people behind this massive undertaking whilst still demonstrating that they achieve results and are actually very likeable.

I'm a big fan of Twenty Twelve, even if I was a bit baffled by the shortened second series. I think it's quite admirably pitched given that it attempts to make fun of the people behind this massive undertaking whilst still demonstrating that they achieve results and are actually very likeable.

He was on a recent documentary about the history of rock, in an episode that focused on rock drummers - and seemed very happy to poke fun at his image and how on his tombstone there'll be a reference to In the Air Tonight. Fair play to him.

He was on a recent documentary about the history of rock, in an episode that focused on rock drummers - and seemed very happy to poke fun at his image and how on his tombstone there'll be a reference to In the Air Tonight. Fair play to him.

It was his appearance at the Oscars that made me feel sorry for him, develop some kind of sympathy for someone who has had enormous commercial success but so little critical praise. Upon receiving the Oscar he said something like "I hope England is proud of me" and that struck me as an incredibly sad thing to say. All…

It was his appearance at the Oscars that made me feel sorry for him, develop some kind of sympathy for someone who has had enormous commercial success but so little critical praise. Upon receiving the Oscar he said something like "I hope England is proud of me" and that struck me as an incredibly sad thing to say. All…

I'm not going to get into a theological discussion here - would much prefer to mention how brilliant Darren Boyd is. In this episode he plays it relatively straight (as I remember) but the stuff he's done elsewhere has made him one of my favourite British actors. If you haven't seen his turn as Dave Welbeck on Twenty…

I'm not going to get into a theological discussion here - would much prefer to mention how brilliant Darren Boyd is. In this episode he plays it relatively straight (as I remember) but the stuff he's done elsewhere has made him one of my favourite British actors. If you haven't seen his turn as Dave Welbeck on Twenty…

I can't remember who it was, but there was a senior member of staff at Bungie (makers of The videogame Halo, if it's at all likely here than anyone doesn't know that) who mentioned Firefly as inspiration and who said that he weeps whenever he thinks of the potential that the show had. I agree wholeheartedly, it has…

I can't remember who it was, but there was a senior member of staff at Bungie (makers of The videogame Halo, if it's at all likely here than anyone doesn't know that) who mentioned Firefly as inspiration and who said that he weeps whenever he thinks of the potential that the show had. I agree wholeheartedly, it has…

I reckon it grows on you, as part of the fabric of the show. If there's one Whedon show whose intro music I can't abide, it's Dollhouse. That one I just can't take seriously and tend to hum along to atonally because it's what it deserves…

I reckon it grows on you, as part of the fabric of the show. If there's one Whedon show whose intro music I can't abide, it's Dollhouse. That one I just can't take seriously and tend to hum along to atonally because it's what it deserves…

And another thing - at first I thought the episode would be a comment on how much disregard the staff of the Dollhouse have for the actives, much in the same way that adults talk about children. They think that they're having a private discussion even in the presence of the actives and make no effort to actually have…