Such great stuff with Phillip and that car. The contrast between how he looks at it when going to meet his contact, and how he looks at it after he hears about the submarine says it all. I love that the show picks the exact right unpredicatble event to get Phillip to wake up to his sense of idealism again, only to…

I think there's been an argument for Clark being the most evil person on this show, but he even couldn't stoop so low as to lie to our Martha like that.

This episode feels like another peak for the season, probably my favorite so far for how funny and devastating it was. Phillip and Henry hotdogging with the Camaro was incredible. I love any scene of the Jensens not just being a normal family, but a normal TV family. It was basically the show becoming a hoary old…

Interesting pilot, major Breaking Bad vibes, and not just cause of Bob Odenkirk. There’s that story about how HBO had to choose between greenlighting The Sopranos instead of another series about a high-level female employee at a toy company from the creator of My so Called Life, and it’s easy to wonder how the…

"A man's got to have a code."

"I suspect I won't see [Casterly Rock] again" -Tywin

The only time I didn't bawl watching this out of emotion, and at how perfect this pilot is, was during the initial viewing. Got misty eyed round 1 of course (how can you not?), but man, with both the knowledge of where this all leads, and the ability to see how beautifully the pilot sets the show up, this is one of…

Really rambly style and theme analysis of the pilot cause I found out AV Club was covering FNL after getting really lit one night while listening to the new War on Drugs album. Posted from work so I guess the format will probably be borked:

Scott Gimple: This finale's all about showing Rick's moral deterioration.

The voice to me both sounded like Morty, and I kinda want to say he had Morty's astrisk pupils (or maybe that was ants). Sorta was expecting a reveal that this was an alternate dimension Morty, just with a different last name.

Totally agree, stone cold A-material. Which is odd because it's basically half an episode plus a lot of shaggy dog improvised TV parodies, which should be the lowest of low hanging fruit. But maaaaaaan does this one really come together at the end. I really love the recent focus on the supporting characters, seeing as …

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!

"Let me tell you something" is stealthily the best, most life-affirming TV catchphrase to ever exist. I didn't even notice how often Coach would use it until after the after the fact, but it was like a Pavlovian bell signalling, "here's some fucking wisdom coming at you, son."

The bigger shame is that John Goodman is playing a character named Walter, and at no point tells someone to shut the fuck up.

I'll second opening the discussion to TV by suggesting almost any episode of Party Down (and if I had to pick one, maybe Steve Guttenberg's birthday party).

Whoomp whoomp

1) Breaking Bad
2) Enlightened
3) Mad Men
4) Top of the Lake
5) Orange is the New Black
6) Justified
7) Spartacus: War of the Damned
8) The Americans
9) Rectify
10) Bob's Burgers
11) The Returned
12) Black Mirror
13) Orphan Black
14) Hannibal
15) Game of Thrones
16) Scandal
17) Parks and Rec
18) New Girl
19) Archer
20) Key & Peele

Hard to even call it a scene, but basically the entire 20 minute battle in/over Hong Kong in Pacific Rim pretty much reignited my belief in blockbuster spectacle. Love that movie to bits.

Let me clarify: that wasn't meant to be a shot at F&F (though it does kinda read like one). I love the F&F movies, but I love them because the craft is in service of cool shit I like. Explosions, car chases, fist fights, etc. What puts them up and above other action movies is the strong sense of character that's…

Nice pick with DMC, Mr. Teti. I too liked the game because it doesn't do as it's told. I only finally just finished it last week so i'm still in the afterglow, but man, what a fantastic reimagining for the series. It cuts out a lot of the rigid "legacy" chaff the old games had. The fixed perspectives, mostly routine…