Shawn Hatosy's scene in the hospital, with the callback to Nate's death, was not only my favorite part of the episode, but maybe his best scene ever on the show.  Sammy was never my favorite character, but Hatosy's been really, really good this season.  I'm glad the Jeep didn't get him. Lucy Liu was also great. This…

Since the band splint up, Mercer has been on guard for criticism that he's writing too many anterior, inwardly looking songs.

Having just re-watched some clips on YouTube, my interpretation is that the uncertainty principle scene is not referring to the ending of the film, but rather to the unpredictability of our lives and the consequences of our actions.

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Yeah, it's crazy how "ER" has been written out of the highbrow, or even high-middlebrow canon.  I think it's because it was on for such a long time, the core cast was off the show by the middle of 2000s, and the days of the show as an innovator are now a decade behind us.  But, this was a show, on network TV, that had…

This deserves its own article.

My perspective is skewed by being in high school when Napster came out (ergo I had cassettes and CD's and a Walkman as a kid), but I think that terrestrial radio is important for getting one's first toe-holds in a genre.  Del Shannon's not an obvious search for a 20 year old on Spotify.

To me, oldies radio is, should be, pre-Beatles "American Graffiti" soundtrack type stuff, rock, pop, doo-wop, with bands like The Doors and Jefferson Airplane as a sort of fire line separating the genre from classic rock.  With Green Day showing up on classic rock stations these days, I guess that makes me sound…

At least China's still cool.

Taco on "The League".  He takes away from the verisimilitude of the show.  Also he looks more like Pete than Kevin.  Also he's the only person on the show with a Canadian accent.

Season 8 was clearly a drop in quality from 7, though a small drop (though 8 had some delightfully weird, but not weirdly delightful episodes).  But something changed with "New York vs. Homer" and the show was never the same after.

NHL '95 (for the PC) is just the opposite for me…incredible anticipation that peaked when it was left by "Santa", unwrapped, next to my stocking as I came down for Christmas, and that paid off in buckets upon install.  I can still remember the "is that, could it be???" feeling, and the white box with the picture from…

The camerawork definitely changed over time, more so than on most long-running tv shows that undergo stylistic changes (like The Sopranos' color shift or ER spending more time outside the hospital).  The shaky-cam went away over time- maybe for the first time when Michael and Jan are sitting in the boxcar, there are…

Where's COLONY WARS?

You're thinking of Ogdenville's monorail.

Well, when they break…they break bad.

The Hearst storyline is bleak for sure- the bastards basically win, and the good guys do evil in the process.  It's a trolley problem, but not addressed as such.  I think Milch dropped the ball.

Hear God Laugh, I think those are excellent points and a true description of how the world really works.  It may have been what Milch was driving at…there's certainly a case to be made that it was.

This.

"Deadwood" has a lot of swaggering, iconic dialogue, but the sense of "anything can happen" promised by, for example, the episode with the grifter kids and the violence in the second season premier isn't sustained.  Ultimately, a show with not enough substance, and less flash than meets the eye (compare with an…