@avclub-945ba977c27d196cdeaf6cbe4ff682f4:disqus  correctly answered that one. And Alanis Morissette's Ironic is about cosmic irony (the idea that god/fate toys with human hopes/expectations). Which I mean, yeah, irony has too many definitions and the cosmic kind isn't the standard way anybody means it but it's a…

Piper correcting people over Frost's The Road Not Taken is something I actually do. Am I as annoying as Piper? Will people just think I'm an Orange is the New Black fan now? This is my favorite poetry-related bar bet and you've ruined it Piper!

@avclub-2217d59b00028839ed2774d3e3fc5f67:disqus But ambiguity is the height of art right? Are you saying acid trips and little people aren't an emotionally satisfying way to conclude a story? I need to think these things over.

I enjoyed Season 1 for a lot of reasons, but especially because

If you don't watch Mad Men with everybody else how are you going to discuss it with everyone else on AV Club?

John de Lancie was trying to play a god. Mikkelsen was trying to play the devil. No contest.

I mean, didn't Chris Claremont do the unnecessary amount of mysteries way before Lynch every could. But Lynch definitely brought it to TV.

Sometimes I get annoyed with the "Joss Whedon shows are going to get cancelled" meme. Buffy and Angel lasted 7 and 5 seasons! I would be so happy if a Fuller show lasted 5 seasons.

I like Alana (and Caronline Dhavernas has a lifetime pass because of Jaye Tyler), but I think what she needs is just a bit more agency, not necessarily backstory. In most episodes she's just reacting to other events, often in a powerless way ("I disapprove of your reckless actions Jack Crawford!" "Okay…I'm going to…

I'm sure as a casting director she probably lives comfortably but, wow, what a nice thing to do for the sake of art, and not even her own art.

“And name the character Georgia, and it’ll be a reimagining or an inversion of Dead Like Me in a fun way.”

The Venture Bros. has two characters with eyepatches. Which makes 4 eyepatches in awesome shows and 1 eyepatch in mediocrity. 80 percent is a pretty good rate.

There was an obtuse reference to the OCD in the first season but you're correct it was never properly foreshadowed in any meaningful way.

Fuller on the angels from episode 5 from that panel: "NBC said 'we cannot show that
shot' which was just this great kind of cinematic shot and I said 'why,
because of the exposed spine and muscle tissue and ribs and flayed
skin?" and they were like 'no, we see their butt cracks.' And I said 'what if we fill the butt…

A lot of shows have characters yell psychoanalysis at each other and it can often be just scenes where characters are just making explicit things that are already shown. Bob has trust issues! He needs to trust people more! There we've explained it for you, you idiots! Hannibal's psychoanalysis often comes against…

Manic Pixie Nightmare Girl?

It was Amy Sherman-Palladino's (Gilmore Girls) new show on ABC Family
about a failed dancer/actor who moves to the small town of Paradise,
California and teaches four lively teenagers ballet and other stuff. There were realistic teenage troubles and unrealistic/awesome dialogue.
There were some beautiful dance numbers,…

TV God, I don't often pray to you, but I'm having a crisis of faith. Why do bad things happen to good shows? WHY???

Was it too greedy to want both elaborate murder art and dancy talky awesomeness to get renewed? Is this the cost of my hubris?

Why does the Pentagon have 5 sides? Because it's the number of anguish!