In my experience, MacFarlane shows mostly serve as background noise for potheads, whereas the Simpsons (classic Simpsons at least) have a much harder time filling that role. Maybe not enough people have the patience anymore to enjoy well-crafted cartoons with some emotional weight behind them.

You can't really "steal" stuff from Canada, can you? Shouldn't they be lucky we don't just take their whole damn country?

Wow, that is a truly idiotic idea. Also, I just looked at her IMDb page, and apparently she was a writer/story editor for Cold Case. I'm pretty sure that if you want a good show, you have to avoid hiring people from fucking Cold Case. That show was almost as bad as Criminal Minds.

I'm not really familiar with how TV deals work, but even if she's the one who adapted it, I'm pretty sure that AMC can just say, "We're willing to pick it up for another season, but only if you step down as show runner." They could offer her an executive producer credit or something, and she can just collect checks…

I think the main reason they moved into the hotel was that Linden didn't feel like getting bitched at for being a bad mother anymore. That said, maybe I'm too PC, but I would be extremely pissed off if my kid called my friend a "lesbo".

The last minute of Jurassic Bark is the saddest television ever made. I can't even stand to watch it.

quite an improvement
I actually thought tonight's episode was pretty good. There were a few notable flaws- in particular Belko's background seemed a little too textbook psycho. But overall, I'm pretty pleased, this was more along the lines of what I expected after the pilot. If there is a second season, if the…

Elias Koteas
looks like the son of Christopher Meloni and Paul Ben-Victor (Spiros from The Wire).

I'm all for The Dude Abides' noir Guess Who. That would be many degrees of awesomeness.

I was going to make a "Serpent and the Rainbow" reference
then I remembered that was Bill Pullman.

2 good songs
but I can see why they didn't make the cut for The Suburbs. I'd probably buy them as single mp3's, but I'm not going to shell out for what amounts to a duplicate copy of an album I bought less than a year ago and a 30 minute short film.

For me, the worst moment in the episode was the mayor and his aide explaining to us that the vasectomy story was a lie. We fucking got it already! How stupid do these writers think we are?!?

"missed opportunity"
The reason I, and probably everyone else, started watching the show was that the idea of turning the focus of a crime procedural outward from the victim to show how a single senseless act of violence affects everyone in the community seemed like a way to make an original and interesting drama. …

Hammer time
Maybe it's because I worked in a hardware store in high school, but Homer's vision of buying a $25 hammer has always killed me.

No way, Terrance Howard has got to play Mingus.

If the movie is going to be about the friendship between the two men, then that's one thing (although I'd be worried about it turning into a Magical Negro story), but they seem to be pushing it as a BB King biopic.

It didn't used to be this way…
…it didn't used to be this way at all.

Am I understanding this correctly?
The life story of a legendary black musician is going to be told from the point of view of some white guy he happened to know? Is this movie going to be to BB King what "Cry Freedom" was to Steve Biko?

I met Ian Curtis in 1865, so there.

I definitely prefer Joy Division, but I don't really have an issue with people who prefer New Order. NO is a good group, just not as good as JD (not many groups are).