As flat and dead sounding as any two people doing their jobs and being superficially nice to each other sound. I don't think it was lifeless, I think it was… the same, like anything. But on the moon.

Exactly. Realistically banal are the perfect two words for it. I wish I had more likes to give.

Yeah, I was waiting for that. Prophecy Girl is the perennial favorite. But the pilot is the strongest, for me. It's written so perfectly tightly, I'm amazed every time I watch it. It's like a movie (that's probably not a coincidence). There isn't a single wasted word, not even a wasted beat. It's a master class in…

The pilots of Buffy and Firefly are two of my favorite pilots ever, and Buffy's pilot is arguably the strongest episode of season 1. I'd have to disagree that he doesn't start strong. (Though Firefly's pilot was famously not aired first).

I'm coming out. My favorite song of all time is George Michael's Freedom '90. There, I said it. I have listened to it at least 15 times this month and maybe 50 times this year, and I am going to listen to it again right now.

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I have trouble sexualizing Lizzy Caplan because she's such a good actress.

Best line from the interview:

The A.V. Club

I really think it's Angela.

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Only 2.5% on topic, but if you like Tom Hardy you need to see Bronson. Actually everyone does, right now.

I liked that.

I never once thought they were trying to make Trinity sympathetic; I thought they were just being accurate. Serial killers tend to be middle-aged white men with families and lives that appear normal from the outside. In fact, the show had been on for so long without visiting this true to life trope, I thought they…

I remember the moment I realized Dexter was not the show I thought it was (and wanted it to be). It was in the first season, when it was revealed that the Ice Truck Killer was Dexter's brother. I thought, "Oh. Shit. It's one of those shows." A show where the villain turns out to be the protagonist's brother, and who…

To be fair, people who write scripts for a living probably have stronger opinions about story structure than most. To me, Comic Sans is just a font; to a font designer, it's the devil.

The music, for one. That orchestral sound punctuating everything. Near the beginning of Into Darkness I thought, "this could be a Star Wars sequel".

Ratings are in, and it apparently killed, becoming the highest rated drama debut in 4 years.

The opening voiceover acting is so bad, it honestly sounds as if it's meant to be sarcastic. Haven't seen the rest yet.