That's my big critique of the show: any given thing they might be doing, like dirtying Alcide up, having Pam and Eric fight for six weeks, even Sookie faerie-fucking Warlow, would all be actually interesting character points and solid plotting, except the writers never let the good points land, and have cluttered…

Yeah, that could have been it too.  For me, though, Debbie's death was the catalyst for even considering calling that mangy group of naked assholes his "pack".

The when was once he figured out Sookie killed Debbie Pelt, and the why is because being the most stand-up werewolf in the whole state still means you gotta get down to their level.  It was pretty clear after they insisted on Marcus Sandwiches for his inaugural dinner he wasn't going to be able to be the lofty,…

"I ain't sure I'd even want to wake back up if my ass cheek and brain were that stabbed, you guys catch my drift?"

That is the best fucking thing.  "Prepare yourself for the upcoming battle with whatever fuckers" is solid advice.

"Idea for song… 'Murder'… a guy gets murdered, uhh and eaten. At an all you can eat buffet. Oh yeah, and that happens forever."

@avclub-9179e2d96deff715fc5445328eeb116c:disqus  "Comparing rape on the whole is nonsensical, nobody can be raped worse than anyone else. The simple point I was making is that when you take into consideration the status of the two people in question who've been raped by Tiberius, Caesar's had it worse."

@avclub-9179e2d96deff715fc5445328eeb116c:disqus  "They suffered all sorts of physical, mental and sexual abuse, but as an audience member watching this show I think that we're a little bit desensitized to their affliction, not that we don't see it as horrible, it's still horrendous, but it's not shocking. We take it…

That's ridiculous.  There have been dozens of instances of really, really terrible sexual violence and humiliation done to slaves at the hands of their masters (and each other) throughout the series, and to say that Caesar and fucking Batiatus, of all people, had it the worst because they were free?  Well, doesn't…

I understand the flaws and honest stupidity of basically live blogging a DVR on this site after the fact, but I just gotta say, watching Heracleo take poor double-trusting Laeta into his super-nasty custody is just a sock in the gut.  After watching Sura, Naevia, Melitta, Diona, Mira and Kore fall victim to the sexual…

Also, I'll add (at minute 24) that in the rakishly dickish but unbearably hot pantheon where Tom Jones, Rhett Butler and Lord Bryron once captivated the feminine imagination, Dustin Clare's Gannicus will always be a fixture.

I don't even care, I've acccepted that it is uncool to care about this shit, but I've watched exactly eleven minutes of this episode and stopped to say: this is THE new action classic.

It would have been awesome if she had asked him to help her — I didn't buy for a second that Stephan didn't know what he suggesting to Damon —but I want to argue against my own misgivings for a minute: this scene made the sire bond work for me.

When they worked at the burger joint and replaced the fry oil with motor oil, I think.  Or maybe it just felt like two episodes, I'm not sure.

When they worked at the burger joint and replaced the fry oil with motor oil, I think.  Or maybe it just felt like two episodes, I'm not sure.

"Shake it down now." I'd been missing Charles like crazy, and I was so happy for a bit of dorky, slightly unfocused Charles that we haven't seen for a long time.  Throughout all this economic turmoil, there hasn't been much focus on what CFO and the label side of things has been, which is a shame and probably would…

"Shake it down now." I'd been missing Charles like crazy, and I was so happy for a bit of dorky, slightly unfocused Charles that we haven't seen for a long time.  Throughout all this economic turmoil, there hasn't been much focus on what CFO and the label side of things has been, which is a shame and probably would…

@avclub-3a518277dba1294f8658479bd9a8308f:disqus Agreed about the subtlety.  That was the big thing that bothered me watching Diversityklok (and the fat-shaming, disability-phobic, crazy woman fan-filled Fanklok, which I have a lot harder time defending): that the "typical Adult Swim audience" might have had all the…

@avclub-3a518277dba1294f8658479bd9a8308f:disqus Agreed about the subtlety.  That was the big thing that bothered me watching Diversityklok (and the fat-shaming, disability-phobic, crazy woman fan-filled Fanklok, which I have a lot harder time defending): that the "typical Adult Swim audience" might have had all the…

@Chris Murphy You know, I felt that way about Diversityklok too, and I spent the first 8 minutes or so just cringing.  But the last thirty seconds pretty much saved it for me, and really subverted all the racist jokes that could really be taken at face value or seen as less than-well-executed anti-racism jokes.  It's…