Tobias, you are a lovely, lovely writer.

I actually really like this show, despite its numerous and sometimes dire flaws. It's almost worth watching *just* for Bradley Whitford and Timothy Busfield. Even vacant-eyed Amanda Peet grew on me eventually.

SO yes.

Oh shit, is that James Nesbitt I saw? Yum. Love him, buying this.

Fingers crossed the new one (whenever) sounds more like Everything All The Time and less like Infinite Arms.

YES. Also, Bill Bailey? Woo!

Totally. For a newish and allegedly tech-savvy company, this has been handled really badly.

It did happen, on NBC : 30 Rock vs Studio 60.

I have a really hard time even thinking about the story, pacing, dialogue, or any other aspect of "300" because the whole thing is SO. PRETTY. I love the color palette, the burnished lighting, the extreme visual exaggeration of…well, everything. I could watch that movie over and over again with the sound off and be…

Concur on all counts. This is one of my fave Stones albums *still*,

And oddly, Serkis' role was originally slated for David Tennant, which would've REALLY put the lie to your comment. Like, really *really*.

Urgh, no WAY. The Black Spot at least had pirates and a fully-fleshed story that manifested itself before the halfway point. This was 31 flavors of suck: boring, followed by boring, followed by wait *what*, followed by zzzz.

OMG, the BBC Sherlock series. Cannot wait for the next batch of those. Moffat AND Cumberbatch AND Gatiss AND Freeman. Fabulousness. Now if they'll just cast James Nesbitt as a villain in the next series…

Seconded, Violet.

Oh, god, when The Nerds go to a dinner party at Jen's, the reaction when she tells them to "look normal. No, *more* normal." Also, Noel Fielding's Richmond trying to evade her grudging invitation earlier in the episode.

That Voord looks like Batman humped a Power Ranger and the resultant spawn got into a traffic smash and came away with a couple of hood ornaments and part of a bumper.

Maybe he just doesn't understand that family-friendly doesn't have to mean "dumb, overly-sentimental and overly-simplistic hacky schmaltz suitable for the Hallmark channel."

Gatiss is delightful as an actor (Doctor Who's "Lazarus Experiment" as the titular mad scientist; the new "Sherlock" series on BBC as Mycroft), but oh god, the Who episodes he's written have been unspeakable. "The Idiot's Lantern" and "Victory of the Daleks" both made me want to stomp on my laptop while shouting…

I didn't really like *any* of the Christopher Eccleston series, but the gas-mask-kids one at least provided the opportunity for Tennant's simultaneously terrible and hilarious "Are you my mummy?" callback in the Sontaran Smogmobile Cataclysm episode.

Naked Underwater Skank Ballet should totally be a Spandau Ballet hair-metal-remix cover band.