Makes sense:  Steve Earle once referred to her as the highest-paid lapdancer in America….

I have GOT to watch Deadwood one of these days.

Wasn't  Remington Steele already a half hour comedy, but it took an hour and wasn't funny?

Jeez, Will.  How many of these will I have to say "this makes it to my top ten Random Roles" about?   Because I have to tell you - it's a lot more than ten, and that's mathematically embarrassing.

What I'd like, although I'd be fine if it doesn't happen, is if someone high up in SHIELD (Hill, or Fury) finally sits Coulsen down to explain what he is (LMD, the Vision, clone, whatever) and he says "Oh.  I know."  Because Clark Gregg could sell that line, and it would be nice to have a big elaborate…

I suppose I'm in the minority, but the girl scientist (Fitz or Simmons?) charms me each episode with her "huh!!" exclamations, in the face of imminent things-could-blow-up danger.  I agree, they have to do more, but she's just so full of wonder.  Plus, oh, yeah, a cutie.

No, I know — but I could do with Oliver Stone being less enthusiastic…

Goddamn, was it an effort, too!  I literally refused phone calls from some friends and avoided others.  These are people who are nice and considerate, and wouldn't WANT to spoil anything, but it was gonna come up in conversation….

The best Buffy episodes do that, beautifully — they set up and advance the main plot while remaining (ostensibly) self-contained episodes.  I'd say the prime example is Once More with Feeling, though, which drops a TON of information (Buffy in Heaven for instance) and in which (just like in an actual musical) the…

The costuming of those henchmen was amazing - undone straitjackets.  Swear to god, with that and the Gentlemen's frozen smiled, Whedon tapped into SOME primal nightmare or other.

No, I'm pretty sure there were valley girl cheerleaders in the Avengers, but they were crushed by flying buses.

I'll disagree — not with your episode rankings, but with your last sentence.  Maybe I'm less discriminating than I should be, but even when you put in your "average" four episodes, I kinda think that DOES make it one of the best TV shows of all time…

Firefly, and to an extent Dollhouse, had the advantage of being short-lived.. And in the case of Dollhouse, the end was foretold with enough time for Whedon and company to ramp up to the show's actual ending; with Firefly of course he got to cap it with Serenity).
I have a fondness for shorter shows - much as I loved…

I have a slight fondness of Alien Resurrection (and when I saw it had no idea who Joss Whedon was).  It's over-long and there are some odd bits, but overall..

I agree, it's a top ten for me (at least).  I just recently rewatched the whole thing (literally finished up last week) and I enjoyed the last seasons' election storyline a lot, despite there being no who-will-win tension this time around.  The only problem I had was with Alan Alda's acting - way too many hand…

I've only seen Hush once (due for a rewatch for sure) but what struck me as the absolute scariest aspect of it was the way the Gentlemen moved.  That gliding, hovering non-gait just sent chills down my spine, I don't know why.  They just seemed so…. purposeful, and their progress so inexorable.

Yes, Bubbleicious, yes.

In the recent live-action Peter Pan (can't recall who was in it; the movie's not bad, but.. it's not Mary Martin) there's a quick scene of Hook, who, when a fairy alights near him, says "I don't believe in fairies" and it keels over dead.
Pretty funny actually.

I liked every episode of Night Gallery when I was a kid (and I think I saw them all) but seeing them now…. it's not the predictability (there was a lot of that with Twilight Zone too) it's that NG episodes seem to be so… workmanlike.  Not a lot of tension-building directorial choices really.  I know they had a…

Maybe Lansdale did the graphic novel, but the source is another Texas boy, Robert E. Howard.
(And I hasten to add — I haven't read the graphic novel, but I'm damn sure Joe R. Lansdale wouldn't fail to credit REH.)