Repeat everything
I find that I focus so much on the story in the first viewing (or reading, if I can open up the topic a bit), that I really need a second or third time through to appreciate the craft of it. Part of it is the details and set-up, that Tasha mentions, the pieces of foreshadowing that are almost too…

I call bullshit
Look at his big band's tour schedule. Does it look like he's staying home in Jersey?

Leland! What is going on in this house?!

Fricking door! It's fucking magic locked!

But, butt…
the skirt is the best part.

This movie looks like number two!

What are you talking about?
That 14 year-old girl's mustache is hardly in order.

Nope, public school all the way, and not even a little religious. That does remind me, though, that the Simpsons were banned from my cousins' house after the episode where Homer thinks he saw an alien. Specifically, for the part where Marge asks if he'd been drinking and he says "No. Well…ten beers." My cousins…

"like visual tone poems"?
too many steps. Why not just "visual poems"?

My roommate…
claims to have never watched the Simpsons. I don't understand how it would be possible for someone who otherwise consumes tons of pop culture to have missed something so huge (especially one that fits so well with his sense of humor), but he doesn't seem to think it's weird at all. Anyway, I'll ialways…

Why these movies?
Did they review current movies months ago and keep it secret until now, or did they just decide to review movies nobody cares about?

The bridge in "Single Ladies"…
is one of the worst I can think of. "To infinity and beyond"? Is she intentionally quoting Buzz Lightyear, or are the lyrics just that bad?

All these Fs aren't indicative of movies in general being worse, just that the writers here have finally collectively grown a pair. A lot of movies didn't get Fs that should have, but I'm sure every one that did get an F really deserved it.

"The Limo" is your favorite episode?
I always found it gratingly fantastical. Maybe my least favorite episode (along with "The Dog"). It misses out on the relatable observational humor that the show is so good at. I'd gladly watch "The Good Samaritan" over "The Limo" any day of the week.

I've always liked digressions, but maybe that's just me. I don't mind footnotes on printed articles where the information is (usually) there on the same page, but scrolling back and forth to read them in context on-line is a little annoying. Maybe there's some way to set up the numbers to jump to that part of the…

What's with the footnotes?
Was this written for another publication, or are you just trying something new? I guess I'm just really used to seeing parenthetical asides on this site, but it struck me as a little weird to see footnotes.

Don't forget to set in on an island with mysteries that are ultimately completely unrelated to the "story" the show is ultimately trying to tell.

Speaking of the music…
…I just re-watched the Mad Men pilot, and the music really bothered me. They really toned it down since then, but it was way too present in the first episode.

Huh
I guess I saw this being filmed today in Grand Central Station. More good news for this movie: it contains at least one flash mob!

"I don't think any of us expected him to say that."