Calling N'Sync "the Beatles of its era"
merits a fate worse than canceraids.

Worth noting
is that "The Big Goodbye" won a Peabody Award. Are the folks behind the most prestigious award in broadcast media just more easily impressed than you, Zack Handlen?

Well, sure, but so does Joe Strummer. And yet there he is, right there in "where to start."

Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers
…get only a passing reference? No next-step love for the band that brought the world the immortal Philip "Snakefinger" Lithman?

I, too, join the chorus of episode lovers. And yes, most of it was because of Michael Emerson. Noel, you talked last week - well, forever, really - about how nothing is as simple as good and evil on Lost, and Ben is the epitome of that kind of nuance. Who else has had us wondering for so long, "Wait — IS he the bad…

what I liked about this episode…
…was Sam and Fiona's rebelling. We've heard them say before how hard it is to be Michael's friend, how much he demands of them, but until this week they'd always ultimately done whatever he asked. It was interesting to see them finally draw a line in the sand with Michael. I hope…