I would read an essay on Rick and Morty. Based on the first several episodes…

I really like Rick and Morty. It's getting better and better. Very immature but absurdly creative. And hilarious. It beat a rerun of The Big Bang Theory in at least one of the coveted demos too. 2014 is going to be the Year of Harmon.

I think that's a good point and one I've thought about. And the show should have shades of gray. But I think of it as more of, not a morality play, but a legend of some sorts, with the talk of taking a character from good to bad. At the same time, we find out that he was never really good so there's room for more…

Walter cooked meth to make money for his family, plus the megalomania of course. But the crime did pay. Other bad things did happen, but that was what I'm referring to.

This. I liked it when I first watched it, but on reflection, it doesn't fit with what the show set up and Gilligan proclaimed it to be about. White got away with too much. His crime worked and paid off. No, he didn't save himself, but he had been as good as dead for a long time. He was able to set his family up. I…

You can follow conversation on Twitter fine. And you're not following the right people.

There's too much unintentional bragging on Facebook. People create their personas based on what they think people want to see. Or, of course, people get inappropriately angsty. People also do that on Twitter but you can just unfollow them.

At least on Twitter, you can connect with people based on actual interests, instead of people you're still following because you're obligated to. For instance, the Twitter pop culture geek subculture, which many writers and commenters on here participate in, is awesome. Of course, it's a generalization, but I love how…

This

Fuck that. My adult woman parts are splooshing.

Eh. You're forgetting all the people who love him because he's in these shitty blockbusters a lot of people paid to see.

Unfortunately, having a white character as the lead voice is probably the only way it got made, especially as this is a show dominated by women. At least the show is supposed to get even further into the lives of the other characters in the second season. Hopefully OITNB's success, if it continues to be successful,…

It doesn't really matter in some ways. Once your credibility, at least direction-wise, is shot like this, it can be hard to convince people you are worthy of helming a project again. Yes, he is a famous name, but there are tons of people he has to compete with for big projects, which I think he's aspiring to win,…

Crosstalk!

You're not being a jerk. In some movies that's an issue. I don't think it will be here. After this, Lars and the Real Girl, and other projects like that, do I wish they'd make one with a female protagonist? Yes. In these cases, I think it's writers falling in love with a concept and using a male protagonist because…

Some people don't like traditional, gendered terms for commitment, which have a lot of cultural baggage. It's not a big deal.

Network notes can be useful sometimes. It just depends.

Every Best Of article has had a different format this year if you haven't noticed. This one is a character study.

Some people don't like gendered terms for commitment. It's not that rare.

Dammit now I need to track down that interview.