New World Man is poppier than The Spirit of Radio? That song was practically a declaration of intent.

As a kid I went to a junior high that held school in half-sessions so I'd always have the morning free and I was glued to the TV set for Letterman's daytime talk show. There was nothing like that then either, and it must have set the stage for his getting Late Night, but very few people remember it.

I'll never forget the Mummenschanz bit, it completely caught me by surprise. And stuff like this:
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This should have been the entire body of this article:

Man, I dearly wish I could. :) More than anything, I wish some of those other networks would look at AMC's ratings versus their own and draw the right conclusions, but as long as reality shows make money, I doubt they will.

Great article. It would have been interesting for you to address the outlier in all this, AMC, which has done the opposite: transform from cannon-fodder "american movie classics" to producing some of the highest quality shows on television.

Because Prince's deterioration didn't include an endless succession of increasingly godawful and yet still bafflingly popular easy listening soft-rock standards.

God, the same joke time and time again.

How about A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures? What is Hemispheres (the song) without Cygnus X-1?

How on earth does Jason Heller skip past Permanent Waves AND Moving Pictures to conclude that Signals was Rush's point of transition? It's like saying "The Beatles finally started to break out of the pop song format with Abbey Road." PW was one of the most masterful such transitions ever.

"So did Tara’s mom save her or just infect her with Hep V? Knowing how True Blood treats Tara, I’m betting on the latter."

Lydia's going to be the weak link that takes them all down.

Lydia's the one who's going to crack.

Disagree. She didn't really lawyer up until the recorder came out, which is when you see the resistance begin, and the last straw was "don't forget to state your name and the date." Until then, it looked like she might have treated him like family first and a cop second. He blew it. An amazing scene.

Holy shit! I got it! 
Don Draper is secretly Rorschach.

Nabin, though I can't be positive, I'm pretty sure you are the reason AV Club became my go-to site since the late 90s for movies and then TV and pop culture. You're one of the few reviewers I ever felt that could nail what was good or bad about a film in a way that I consistently agreed with, and I followed plenty of…

That's what I liked about Premium Rush. It gave a good sense of the spatial proportions of the island, and what it might take to get around from Columbia to downtown and all in between.

It's interesting, I had the opposite reaction to Lana, and I felt like it was kind of spelled out in the "staring at evil" speech: Lana's ambition ultimately turned her into a monster as well, though not as obvious or gory as the others in her "family."

How can you cover this guy's career and not mention antmusic?

(Edit: this is in response to UWIR's comment.)