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Extreme? Yes. But in your defense, Jim Parsons does suck.

I thought Season 4 of "30 Rock" was pretty bad, and by midway through Season 5, the show was no longer appointment TV for me. There are still probably at least a dozen episodes I haven't actually bothered watching.

Screengrab from The Fountain, right? Love that movie. Burstyn really should have received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for it; she commanded every scene she was in.

Yes, Rudy Giuliani did that to us.

I enjoyed that both as a character beat and a meta nod to the way Britta has changed as a character (and as a story element) since Season 1. She certainly wasn't universally beloved in Season 1, at all, but she was more obviously competent and wasn't casually disparaged; there have been episodes in which she was

I think that was the point. It took Britta's (inadvertent?) therapizing for Duncan to realize Jeff was basically the closest thing he had to a friend, and they weren't even really friends. Probably because Duncan is kind of a terrible person. And that made Duncan (at least temporarily) decide to be less terrible and

I'm desperately sorry to say I agree with you. This episode wasn't bad, but describing it as a shadow of its former self seems almost like an overstatement. It's not like late-period "30 Rock" where it got increasingly absurd and oddball, and thus more hit-and-miss; it's not even quite like late-period "The Office"

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"Siege" is worthwhile if only for the scene where "I'll Be Seeing You" plays over the sound of Jem'Hadar being blown to bits by Sisko's antimatter mines. One of Trek's all-time darkest moments.

If you think too hard about sci-fi warfare in general, explanations as to why the battles last more than a few minutes become increasingly implausible. The Jem'Hadar are clones of the same genetic material; would it be really that hard to engineer a bioweapon that targets only Jem'Hadar? The Federation might be too

Yes, not entirely sure about this "Community" development. We'll see how this goes.

Watch the first part of the miniseries. I defy you to stop watching after that.

I'd only say "cheery" because of the cathartic ending — and then everything just goes straight to hell again after this episode, so, yeah, completely depressing.

Fitzcarraldo is one of my favorite albums of the 1990s, up there with Gentlemen, Ten, OK Computer, and The Rhythm of the Saints.

Saw it in theaters twice (once by myself, once on the first date with my now-fiancee). My first viewing, I sat motionless through the entire end credits, wanting it not to be over but knowing it was.

Upvoted, just because I would probably enjoy watching Clara run about while holding a Bichon Frise for an episode or two.

And they might as well cast his next companion after that at the same time.

Just leaves more for the rest of us.

So was Mickey. Which was why it made so much sense when RTD decided to insert a not-at-all-gratuitous scene depicting them as a married couple at the end of "The End of Time".

There's some symbolism in that…