Their jokes to each other don't do it for me for some reason. Strike more of a pathetic tone.

Christopher's plot is depressing. I hate drug use. Paulie's plot is a bit more interesting (and the shot of the statue in the Bada Bing is horrifying, while the meeting with his mother at the end has quite a sense of depressed foreboding). The "Ride plot" itself that ties together the intrigue at the beginning with…

Christopher's plot is depressing. I hate drug use. Paulie's plot is a bit more interesting (and the shot of the statue in the Bada Bing is horrifying, while the meeting with his mother at the end has quite a sense of depressed foreboding). The "Ride plot" itself that ties together the intrigue at the beginning with…

As a fundamentalist Christian, I can't take the pathos of the Vito storyline seriously (mostly the whole of it just seems disgusting and sad). But the AJ storyline, as unpleasant as the character is usually in the series, manages to drive a strained sympathy out of me in his talk with his dad. His subsequent panic…

As a fundamentalist Christian, I can't take the pathos of the Vito storyline seriously (mostly the whole of it just seems disgusting and sad). But the AJ storyline, as unpleasant as the character is usually in the series, manages to drive a strained sympathy out of me in his talk with his dad. His subsequent panic…

This is the kind of Sopranos episode that my dad always hated. Cheap tit shots at two separate points, tired nostalgia for Old World Italy, and wandering, trivial Hollywood takedown plot.
But the Artie stuff is well-observed and funny. Though I often find him nothing more than a moaning, Livia-esque, self-obsessed…

This is the kind of Sopranos episode that my dad always hated. Cheap tit shots at two separate points, tired nostalgia for Old World Italy, and wandering, trivial Hollywood takedown plot.
But the Artie stuff is well-observed and funny. Though I often find him nothing more than a moaning, Livia-esque, self-obsessed…

I guess I am going to be one of those dissenting, smug assholes. As much as I loved this season of Breaking Bad (far more than I ever did the Wire or even the Sopranos - I loved the Sopranos more), this pales in comparison to most of what the written word offers me. Television can be good, can be great, but the…

Please, no comparisons to Hamlet, even as a means to denigrating television. Hamlet and Shakespeare and general are too awesome. I have seen too many reviews that try to draw lines between his plays and good TV and it stings. Breaking Bad may be good and, who knows, perhaps Deadwood, the Wire, and the Sopranos…

Just out of curiosity.  Is any member of the AV Club staff a theist, much less an Evangelical Christian?  As a Christian, I know there is a long history of posing problem of evil questions to God, beginning rather wonderfully with the Book of Job in the first millenium BC, so I have no problem with the posing itself.

"To the victor, go the spoils."  Why has no one commented on this line?  I laughted out loud.  This character is very quickly becoming one of my favorites.

Somehow, I don't this episode merely deserves a B+.   At least A- material.  
This has to be the first absolutely awesome episode of the second half of the third season. The Britta-Subway plot was wonderful from the beginning, the Troy-Abed, though starting off in what seemed a routine enough way, really payed off, and…

Just watched this episode and…it seems far superior (in pure number of out-loud laughs elicited) than the previous two episodes.  The so-called B-Plot with the trampoline was brilliant.  I've never seen anything like that on TV before.  Donald Glover killed it.  And the number of jokes served in the other…

If this is what an "A" level Survivor Episode looks like, I'm not sure I want to watch Survivor anymore.  It's not that I need heroes (there are none in this season) or that I need intelligent villains (also none in this season).  I don't need spectacle (crazy Survivor moves), I don't need Machiavellian gameplay.  I…

Maybe, part of it is that that "it's all for the fans" loudmouth freak has become louder and louder and more and more aggressive as the seasons have progressed.  It's like he's expecting someone to cry at each tribal council now.  I think he's a fine enough analyst of the game, and I admit, I don't entirely regret the…

Though the plotting direction that emerged was tedious and the conversations that occurred ran along the same old lines (old vs. young, concept of "athlete" or "competitor," issue of eight women representing all of womankind in gender split show), I don't think that the episode should be viewed as a necessary failure.…

Whatever is said about this episode, I think the amount of skin we saw in this episode needs to be mentioned.  Seriously, the number of genuinely hot women this season is astounding.  At one point, during one montage, the producers absolutely seemed to be flaunting it.

Why I can't find anyone, almost anyone, on the internet that shares your opinion, I don't know.  Music is in a FAR worse position than literature in this respect.  Nearly every music critic that I've read is completelty unaware of their critical apparatus.  They all assume, it seems, as the end of the day,…

Why is FuriousGeorge trying so hard to be blasphemous? Since when was offense and blasphemy so great a virtue to secular humanists?

Rob's Fish
Did anyone else besides me think that Rob's reaction to the fish was a bit extreme? I'm more ambivalent about the buddy-system - that seems to a variety of good things - prevents Zapatera from talking to anyone individually on Omatepe and prevents any Omatepe member from thinking for themselves (who wants…