I'm not surprised. The book was basically a middling screenplay by design.

The major thing that I thought kept season 2 from the heights of season 1 is that it seemed to settle into favorite character pairings pretty early and rarely disrupt them in the way it seemed to in the first season. Subplots like season 1's stuff with Yoga Jones and Janae or Sister Ingalls with Sophia that worked…

Came back here to ask again if you can please, please stop spoiling Hannibal reveals in the first couple sentences for those of us who keep AV Club in our RSS feeds. More than any other show, you seem dead set on beginning each season 2 review with "RIP Beverly" or "FREDDIE LIVES" or whatever and it's a testament to…

Easily the worst episode of the season, though I am less Chilton-inclined than most, so I don't mine that he's gone.

I found the first series to be utterly hypnotic in a way that I never quite found The Hour (that is, it took me weeks to actually motivate myself to watch individual installments of The Hour, though I would find myself enthralled once I tuned in, and I flew through Bletchley). Anna Maxwell Martin is astounding in this…

I think it's a misreading of people's complaints about Sheen's
performance to say "pretty much everybody could agree he was doing stunning work." I get that the character is supposed to be a little tough to side with, but I find him so unceasingly flat. Most of that is Sheen and not the writing. He's my least favorite…

Miles Teller.

Thought the decision to shame Tina about her, contextually quite small for this show, expression of grief WHILE MEETING WITH A COUNSELOR ABOUT HER GRIEF was pretty fucked, but what do they do to that character that isn't?

I just watched it all right now. Bravo has one of the most ghastly web content platforms but unlike LCK (last season at least?) it seems to be up on Hulu which is a little less painful.

When I was in middle school, KCAL 9 ran old Road Rules episodes. THAT was the best.

Easy. Degrassi.

Please Like Me goes down easy.

Thought Comfort's routine for Paul was the best of the night. A ton of fun and danced better than any other hip-hop of the past couple seasons. He leaped from the middle of the pack to my new favorite tonight.

I still am finding this show really watchable. I love how quickly it's delving into some uncharted waters in terms of race, sexual assault, and the foster system. But I find the performances to be, overall, little more than serviceable. Other than the actress playing Lexi and, increasingly, Maia Mitchell, I find a lot…

The real question that the episode answered for me is "do I still miss Simone?"

Try Vol. 1 Brooklyn. They do some good stuff.

Throwing some support behind two short Aussie comedies that, though both slightly flawed, I think of as spiritual siblings to Girls (i.e. "also about people in their mid-twenties"): twentysomething (returning this year, supposedly) and Please Like Me.

I can only hope this means next week we get Dalia's sequel to "You Missed a Spot." Wan'er to the bridge!

Glad to see Dana in there. Morgan Saylor KILLED IT in the best way in those last two episodes.

Glad to see Dana in there. Morgan Saylor KILLED IT in the best way in those last two episodes.