Is it Mad Men "by the numbers" this week and not the show "conversing w/ its younger self"? Sweet Jaysus this show can do no wrong in your eyes.

So Don's still struggling with his idenitity and fidelity. No one can accuse Wiener of not recycling. Oh, sorry, I figured the obsessed fans would view such repetition as something more pretentiously phrased like "having conversations with its younger self".

I disagree there. Much more important than Merle's talk with Michone were his talks with his brother, especially his discussion with his brother in this ep. Merle has seen his brother change and done what he can to get him on his side and not been able to I can understand if you didn't buy the change, but I've been…

Except for the decision Rick's forced to make at the end, there's far too much padding for this episode to be anything but one of the worst. One of the most contrived conversations the show's ever had. The first half hour just felt like killing time until the final showdown.

Great article. Wish I could favorite it without having to be on facebook or something else.

I can see why you think the Merle Bible thing is corny, but it certainly doesn't seem "ad hoc" or lazy. Wouldn't it be MORE lazy to say Merle never read anything at all while he was staying in Woodbury? Do you not think he'd have a lot of time on his hands? If he did go to the library and saw a multititude of books,…

I mean she took the bait b/c she needed Jeff to talk her down. If she hadn't taken the bait she would've just rejected his offer and left. She took the bait so much she was trying to convince Jeff that it might be a good idea for her to take the job!

I thought the break-up scene was fantastic. Fantastic acting from Dern. Captured all the hurt of a dumpee after a real break-up. Reminds me of that scene from Before Sunrise where Ethan Hawke tells Delpy that you realize after a break-up that the person you think about all the time doesn't think about you at all after…

I think you're viewing Amy too one-sidedly here, as the people who think she's an all-out hero are doing. For me this is the most interesting show on tv because she is both things. I never thought of her as stupid, just delusional and profoundly lacking in self-awareness, but in a very realistic way. I think alot of…

And what exactly about these new comics makes this writer compare them to the actual golden age of Claremont and Byrne's Dark Phoenix stories?  "Stronger stories"? Ok, so the xmen comics line is not as bad as it used to be. Settle down with the hyperbole. Except for Whedon's focused take that paid tribute to…

I couldn't disagree more. You call the moral dilemmas "simple minded" and wish they were scripted better — how so? The moral dilemmas the group has been presented with seem extremely plausible given the situations they've been in. You speak as if they've been existing in a world that allows a great deal of room for…

Just to clarify when I say most stories are nowhere near as self-indulgent as Girls is I mean that most stories, almost anything on tv - take The Walking Dead, The Good Wife or Breaking Bad - force characters to not only deal with their own personal neuroses, but also engage in conflicts that occur outside…

I realize this is fruitless and I won't change your mind, but I'd like to point out two things: Nicholas Hoult was a nobody when Tiny was written and the last thing Ewan McGregor had remotely resembling a hit was the Phantom Menace several years ago.I can give you a list of McGregor and Hoult movies that have come out…

I didn't find the rant wonderful at all, just totally uncalled-for rudeness without a trace of wit to any of it. Fans of this show must have a great deal of hostility given how much they enjoy someone crapping all over someone trying to be nice. Unlike the jerks on Seinfeld and AD the jerks on this show have…

I thought the show was funny the first season and even laughed during episode 2 of this season. Unfortunately so far this season, the characters only seem loathesome now, minus the laughs. And for those who compare this to the characters on Seinfeld or AD, it's worth noting those shows were pure comedies, where they…

I think your last Stray Observation is waaaay off the mark. Anyone who actually believes this show is "about people trying to shoot zombies before zombies can eat them" hasn't been paying attention at all. You can try to diminish it all you want to try and make your Carl-with-a-gun point but anyone who's watched the…

Community lacks this show's distinctive repartee. I haven't heard this many sex puns since Andrew Dice Clay and the last few seasons of Three's Company (which, respectively, must be your favorite comedian and tv show of all time).

We agree to disagree strongly. One of two things happened here: the OUAT writers wrote a Jack and the Beanstalk tale when they needed it (months ago btw) for their story. The second option is that the writers decided "to use a particular subject in time for a movie coming out with the same subject".

It's very ironic that the same website that rates episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race, with its non-stop steam of truly bad puns and double entendres (seriously, watch any given episode), as worthy of an A-, has the temerity to mock Dane Cook's humor. I'm not defending Dane Cook here; I'm just pointing out the jarring…

It's very ironic that the same website that rates episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race, with its non-stop steam of truly bad puns and double entendres (seriously, watch any given episode), as worthy of an A-, has the temerity to mock Dane Cook's humor. I'm not defending Dane Cook here; I'm just pointing out the jarring…